Oil well gusher fired 1,000 feet into the air near Tampico, Mexico making it the largest in history.
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Edmond Halley was given the senior post as the second Astronomer Royal at Greenwich Observatory.
A computer defeated world champion chess player Gary Kasparov for the first time.
The first US fire extinguisher patent was granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia.
Two Australian warships, the HMAS Melbourne and the HMAS Voyager, collided off the New South Wales coast.
Twelve Anabaptists paraded through Amsterdam completely naked.
