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1720 - Birth of Gilbert White "father of British naturalists".

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1753 - Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Massachusetts

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1792 - Death of John Paul Jones, American naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight").

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1794 - The Bank of Maryland makes the first deposit of silver bullion at the US Mint, $80,715.735 in French coins.

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1796 - Birth of Feargus O'Connor County Cork, leader of the English Chartists.

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1811 - Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair).

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1814 - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc).

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1826 - The last lottery takes place in London, as the British government bans them.

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1848 - Birth of William Gilbert Grace Victorian England's greatest cricket player.

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1853 - First train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Maine.-Montréal, PQ.

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