Jack Fingleton, an Australian cricketer, became the first batsman to score 100 runs in four consecutive test matches.
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Pearl Harbor was attacked.
A ban on diesel cars was called for in France.
Coca-Cola was named the world's largest plastic polluter by the charity 'Break Free From Plastic.'
Inventor Leo Baekeland patented the first thermosetting plastic, Bakelite, which sparked the birth of the plastics industry.
An assassination attempt was made on the First Lady of the Philippines.