The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
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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.
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
