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Dampier Lands at Shark Bay
Aug 6 HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, Western Australia on the first British scientific expedition to Australia
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 10 Christoph Gottlieb Schröter, German organist (St Nikola Church, Nordhausen, 1732-82), composer, and inventor of the tangent piano, born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1782)
- Aug 13 John Dyer, Welsh painter and poet, (Grongar Hill), born in Aberglasney, Wales (d. 1758) (Baptism date)
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