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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The British defeated the Americans in the Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn.
The world's first jet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, completed its first flight.
American driller Edwin Laurentine Drake successfully drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania, US.
Disney's Mary Poppins was released and premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
Chinese and Korean forces won the two-day Battle of Baekgangon.
