Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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American driller Edwin Laurentine Drake successfully drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania, US.
Chinese and Korean forces won the two-day Battle of Baekgangon.
Two baseball teams played a night match at White Sox Party using three 100-foot towers lit with 12 electric lamps.
Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.
Napoleon won the battle of Dresden against the Austrians.
