When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
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British astronomer William Lassell discovered two of Uranus' moons, Ariel and Umbriel.
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 V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
