The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
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John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
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.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
Iceland's Prime Minister joined thousands of women on strike to protest gender inequality.
