The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
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The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
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.
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
