The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
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When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
Folklore states that injured soldier Gil Pérez was mysteriously transported from the Philippines to Mexico City.
