Historical Events
Murder of Interest
Aug 20 Former Grand Pensionary of Holland Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague
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- Aug 2 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1733)
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Johan de Witt (1625-1672)
Aug 20 Dutch statesman and Grand Pensionary of Holland (1653-72), lynched at 46
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