In 1973 Bobby Moore made his 108th, and final, appearance for the England football team. The team lost 1-0 to Italy at Wembley.


Leo (Hendrik) Baekeland, the chemist who invented the first commercial plastic, named Bakelite in his honour, was born in Belgium in 1863.


In 1889, reporter Nellie Bly set out from New York and travelled by sea, horse, rail & road, to beat Phileas Fogg's 80-day, round-the-world trip........by a week!

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind