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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
– American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
– American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
– Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
– American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
– The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
– American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip’s Bay during the New York Campaign.
– Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
– Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Birkbeck, British academic (d. 1841)
– E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
– Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
– Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
– Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (d.1862)
– Caroline of Baden, consort of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1841)
– Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
– Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
– Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
– Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)