The world’s first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
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The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
Someone in South Carolina won a $1.6 billion lottery jackpot, making it the biggest win in US history at the time.
John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
