When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
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On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
British astronomer William Lassell discovered two of Uranus' moons, Ariel and Umbriel.
