The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
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Someone in South Carolina won a $1.6 billion lottery jackpot, making it the biggest win in US history at the time.
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
Iceland's Prime Minister joined thousands of women on strike to protest gender inequality.
