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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)
– Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
– Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Austrian governor of the Duchy of Milan and Duke of Breisgau (d. 1806)
– Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800)
– Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (d. 1825)
– William Bligh, Royal Navy admiral and colonial administrator (d. 1817)
– John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
– Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1794)
– Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
– George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)