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 world's first jet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, completed its first flight.
Napoleon won the battle of Dresden against the Austrians.
American driller Edwin Laurentine Drake successfully drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania, US.
Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.
Hurricane Five struck Florida and caused 700 fatalities.
