The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
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People in South Asia witnessed a total eclipse that lasted 2 minutes and 9 seconds.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
The world's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
