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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Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.
Jessi Combs broke the female fastest land speed record when her jet-powered vehicle reached a speed of 522.783 mph (841.338 kph).
The world's first jet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, completed its first flight.
Hurricane Five struck Florida and caused 700 fatalities.
Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
