Hurricane Five struck Florida and caused 700 fatalities.
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Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.
American driller Edwin Laurentine Drake successfully drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania, US.
Two baseball teams played a night match at White Sox Party using three 100-foot towers lit with 12 electric lamps.
Napoleon won the battle of Dresden against the Austrians.
In Java, Indonesia, the Krakatoa volcano erupted and destroyed 70% of the island and its surroundings.
