Random Fact: New! Grab iGoogle gadget for FactsCollection.com!
The Australian singer Jade MacRae started learning the piano at age 8. 
/
- 0 / 0
/ - 0 / 0 Facts in category: ALL
| Old Catholic Cemetery was created for Roman Catholics after a yellow fever epidemic struck Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s. |
| The Tang Chinese government of Emperor Xuanzong achieved considerable savings from reforms implemented by Chancellor Pei Yaoqing. |
| The Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash. |
| The Battle of Mataquito, part of the Arauco War, was lost by the Mapuche after disaffected local Indians betrayed their location to the Spanish. |
| Oldbury-on-the-Hill, part of Didmarton, has a 30-metre (98 ft) Bronze Age round barrow called Nan Tow's Tump (pictured). |
| Carl Hans Lody was the first German spy to be executed in the United Kingdom during World War I. |
| Joe Shell, the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940. |
| Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the United States to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers. |
| Police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed with a tire iron by Armenian-Americans after a retaliatory shooting at a donut shop. |
| Even though his predecessor, Verne Duncan, was a Republican, Democrat Kurt Schrader faced no Republican opponent in his 2002 run for the Oregon State Senate. |
| The exposed bedrock of the Duluth Complex was formed from magma emitted when the North American plate began to split apart in the Midcontinent Rift. |
| John Lavarack was the first person born in Australia to be an Australian State Governor. |
| St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church (pictured) was the site of the baptism of Clark Gable's son, the wedding of Annette Funicello, and the funeral of Mercury Seven astronaut "Gordo" Cooper. |
Page 1009 of 2206
