Jack Fingleton, an Australian cricketer, became the first batsman to score 100 runs in four consecutive test matches.
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Inventor Leo Baekeland patented the first thermosetting plastic, Bakelite, which sparked the birth of the plastics industry.
Apollo 17 launched the final manned lunar landing mission, during which the crew took the famous 'blue marble' photo of the entire Earth.
One of America's oldest documented highways was completed on this day in Connecticut, USA.
Coca-Cola was named the world's largest plastic polluter by the charity 'Break Free From Plastic.'
Pearl Harbor was attacked.
