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Historical Event(s)
– Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
– The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
– First performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
– King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
– Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
– Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
– Levi Lincoln, Sr., American statesman (d. 1820)
– Gregorio Funes, Argentine clergyman, politician and Junta Grande figure (d. 1829)
– Cyrus Griffin, American statesman, 16th and last president of the Continental Congress (d. 1810)
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
– Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, Italian-born French aristocrat (d. 1792)
– Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
– Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841)
– Edward Rutledge, American statesman (d. 1800)