People in South Asia witnessed a total eclipse that lasted 2 minutes and 9 seconds.
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A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
