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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Napoleon won the battle of Dresden against the Austrians.
Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.
For the first time in history, the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) transmitted a two-hour-long live broadcast from Calais, France, to television screens in the UK.
Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
Hurricane Five struck Florida and caused 700 fatalities.
