Two baseball teams played a night match at White Sox Party using three 100-foot towers lit with 12 electric lamps.
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Chinese and Korean forces won the two-day Battle of Baekgangon.
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.
Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
Disney's Mary Poppins was released and premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
