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• On this date:
• In 63 B.C., Caesar Augustus, the first Roman emperor, was born.
• In 1779, during the Revolutionary War, the American warship Bon Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, defeated the HMS Serapis in battle.
• In 1780, British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point to the British.
• In 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis more than two years after setting out for the Pacific Northwest.
• In 1846, Neptune was identified as a planet by German astronomer Johann

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