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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 ?
– Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman (d. 1838)
– Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
– Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800)
– Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
– Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect, planner of Washington, D.C. (d. 1825)
– William Bligh, Royal Navy admiral and colonial administrator (d. 1817)
– Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804–07) (d. 1844)
– Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1794)
– George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)