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Historical Event(s)
– An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
– American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
– American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
– The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
– The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
– American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold’s change of sides.
– Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point.
– John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
– The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1844)
– Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)
– Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847)
– Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
– William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
– Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
– Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
– Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
– John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
– Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)