Two baseball teams played a night match at White Sox Party using three 100-foot towers lit with 12 electric lamps.
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Hurricane Five struck Florida and caused 700 fatalities.
Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.
Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.
Chinese and Korean forces won the two-day Battle of Baekgangon.
For the first time in history, the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) transmitted a two-hour-long live broadcast from Calais, France, to television screens in the UK.