In 1642, Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.
In 1779, during the Revolutionary War, the American warship Bon Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, defeated the HMS Serapis after Jones reportedly declared: "I have not yet begun to fight!"
In 1780, British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point to the British.
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"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."