The USSR launched Sputnik 3, carrying two dogs 

The first jet-propelled aircraft, the Heinkel 178, made its first flight 

A Russian pilot, Lieutenant Peter Nesterov, became the first to perform the loop-the-loop 

Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0 

Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park 

Jack Chesbros final Yankee game 

Battle at Bergendal 

Edwin Drake was the first in the US to strike oil - at Titusville, Pennsylvania 

The first balloon ascent was made in Britain by James Tytler at Edinburgh