British and Hessian forces captured Fort Washington in Manhattan during the American Revolutionary War. The victory resulted in the surrender of nearly 3,000 American troops and gave the British control of New York Harbor.
A Portuguese writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, known for his distinct punctuation style and allegorical novels like 'Blindness'.
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for the first time. Its psychedelic properties were not discovered until he accidentally ingested it five years later.