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Historical Event(s)
– An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
– Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
– Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
Who Were Born On ?
– Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
– Claude Martin, French then British General (d. 1800)
– John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
– John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet
– Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)
– Button Gwinnett, Signer of the US Declaration of Independence (d. 1777)
– Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
– Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (d. 1811)
– John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826)
– Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)