Inventor Moses F Gale patented the cigar lighter in the US.
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Freed black man Richard Johnson was granted 100 acres of land in the state of Virginia.
French chemistry and physics teacher Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made his first successful balloon flight.
British Navy Admiral William Brown and his crew discovered Honolulu Harbor.
Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, fell to the armies of Timur.
The movie 'Frankenstein,' based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel of the same name, was released in the US.
