John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
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The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
British astronomer William Lassell discovered two of Uranus' moons, Ariel and Umbriel.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
