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Historical Event(s)
– Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
– Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
– William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
– Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
– Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
– John Hadley, British inventor (d. 1744)
– Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
– King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
– Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
– Louis, duc de Bourgogne, dauphin of France (d. 1712)
– Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
– Calico Jack Rackham, English pirate (d. 1720)