The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
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Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
Someone in South Carolina won a $1.6 billion lottery jackpot, making it the biggest win in US history at the time.
The world's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
