Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly swim in a record 50:58 at the Beijing Olympic finals.
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More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Queen Victoria of Britain sent the first-ever transatlantic telegraph to US President James Buchanan.
The world's first colored cartoon with synchronized sound was released.
A solar flare from the sun created a geomagnetic storm, which caused Toronto's stock market to halt.
Georgian heavyweight-lifting champion Lasha Talakhadze smashed a world record by lifting an incredible 473 kg.
