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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
– American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
– Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
– American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
– American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
– American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
– Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
– Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
– Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
– American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Birkbeck, British academic (d. 1841)
– Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831)
– Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of Prussia (d. 1810)
– Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (d.1862)
– John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
– Caroline of Baden, consort of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1841)
– Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1853)
– Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
– Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
– Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)