The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
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The world's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.