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Historical Event(s)
– James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.
– Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
– The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
– The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
Who Were Born On ?
– Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer (d. 1796)
– Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804)
– Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
– Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV of France (d. 1799)
– Betty Washington, sister of George Washington (d. 1797)
– Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
– Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
– George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
– François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)