The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
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Iceland's Prime Minister joined thousands of women on strike to protest gender inequality.
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
Folklore states that injured soldier Gil Pérez was mysteriously transported from the Philippines to Mexico City.
