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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne’s command rebel against the Continental Army’s winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
– American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
– Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
– The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
– William Herschel discovers Uranus.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
– Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
– The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
– American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
– American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
Who Were Born On ?
– François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
– John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer (d. 1844)
– Bhagwan Swaminarayan, religious leader (d. 1830)
– Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
– Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
– George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
– Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Joséphine de Beauharnais and adoptive son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1824)
– Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer, editor and music publisher (d. 1858)
– Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher (d. 1865)
– Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)