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Historical Event(s)
– After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
Who Were Born On ?
– Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
– Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
– Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congress delegate (d. 1781)
– William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
– Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
– Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
– Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
– Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
– William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
– Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)