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Historical Event(s)
– Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
– French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
– French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
– French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
Who Were Born On ?
– Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman (d. 1838)
– Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
– Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
– Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
– Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800)
– Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1832)
– Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect, planner of Washington, D.C. (d. 1825)
– Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1794)
– George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)