The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
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The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
Folklore states that injured soldier Gil Pérez was mysteriously transported from the Philippines to Mexico City.
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.
