The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
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A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
A pair of Michael Jordan's 1984 Nike Air Ships broke the record for the highest-selling sneakers at auction.
Someone in South Carolina won a $1.6 billion lottery jackpot, making it the biggest win in US history at the time.
