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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
– 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.
– American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
– The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
– Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
– The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
– George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
– At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis’ sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
– Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
– The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
Who Were Born On ?
– François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
– Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
– Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)
– George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
– Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
– Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
– Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Joséphine de Beauharnais and adoptive son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1824)
– Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
– Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
– Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)