The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
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When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
The world's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
Iceland's Prime Minister joined thousands of women on strike to protest gender inequality.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
