The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
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The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
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.