When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
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The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
The world's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
Folklore states that injured soldier Gil Pérez was mysteriously transported from the Philippines to Mexico City.
