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1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard.

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1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.

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1677 - Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.

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1696 - Birth of Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu French marshal.

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1700 - Birth of James Kent composer.

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1700 - Birth of Michel Blavet composer.

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1712 - Birth of Isfrid Kayser composer.

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1716 - Georg Gabriel Schutz composer, dies at age 46.

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1733 - Birth of Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen).

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1735 - First US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany.

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