Napoleon won the battle of Dresden against the Austrians.
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Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.
Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
The British defeated the Americans in the Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn.
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.
