A 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia, killed 25,000-50,000 people and left up to 500,000 homeless.
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Inventor Leo Baekeland patented the first thermosetting plastic, Bakelite, which sparked the birth of the plastics industry.
Coca-Cola was named the world's largest plastic polluter by the charity 'Break Free From Plastic.'
One of America's oldest documented highways was completed on this day in Connecticut, USA.
Justin II of Byzantine adopted Tiberius, his general, and proclaimed him Caesar.
The southern parts of Great Britain were struck by The Great Storm of 1703, which took the lives of 9,000 people.
