2021
Tom Brady becomes first quarterback in NFL history to record 600 touchdown passes when he hits Mike Evans in 1st quarter of the Buccaneers 38-3 rout of the Chicago Bears in Tampa Bay.
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2021
Strongest storm to ever hit the West Coast of the US, with California recording barometric pressure of 945.2 mb, and San Francisco its wettest October day.
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2018
The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
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2018
Someone in South Carolina won a $1.6 billion lottery jackpot, making it the biggest win in US history at the time.
The winner chose the lump sum payout (instead of the 30-year annual payments), which was worth $904 million!
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2003
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
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1995
People in South Asia witnessed a total eclipse that lasted 2 minutes and 9 seconds.
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1979
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
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1973
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
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1946
A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
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1929
Dubbed “Black Thursday,” the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
The market tanked 11% and began the decade-long Great Depression.
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1901
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Her reasoning for doing so was to secure herself financially in her later years. She lived to tell the tale, although she didn’t make much money from the act.
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1857
The world’s first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
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1851
British astronomer William Lassell discovered two of Uranus’ moons, Ariel and Umbriel.
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1818
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
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1593
Folklore states that injured soldier Gil Pérez was mysteriously transported from the Philippines to Mexico City.
Twentieth-century paranormal investigators have suggested that teleportation and alien abduction are possible reasons for this occurrence.
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1590
John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
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