A solar flare from the sun created a geomagnetic storm, which caused Toronto’s stock market to halt.
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More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly swim in a record 50:58 at the Beijing Olympic finals.
NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
The world's first colored cartoon with synchronized sound was released.
The Junkers Ju 287, the first jet with forward-swept wings, made its first flight.