Today in History for May 1759
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Months in 1759: January February March April June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 2 of 2
1st - British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
31st - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 9 of 9
1st - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor
6th - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician
15th - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
18th - Charles Duquesnoy, composer
20th - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
22nd - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
23rd - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
26th - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley
28th - William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 1 of 1
12th - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
