Lord Dunmore promised freedom to every slave who enlisted into the British Army.
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The English explorer Verney Cameron became the first European to cross Africa from east to west.
The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical society in the US, was formed.
The London Gazette published its first edition under the name The Oxford Gazette.
New York City elected its first African American Mayor, David Dinkins.
John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged on London's Tyburn Gallows.
