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An Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men of Diro during the Egyptian Invasion of Mani in 1826. 
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| George Harrison included two versions of the song "Isn't It a Pity" on his All Things Must Pass album?. |
| Christian Rynning-Tønnesen accepted a CEO job offer of Agder Energi in 2006, but changed his mind shortly after when offered the same position in Norske Skog. |
| U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign won the most Democratic primary votes but was denied the nomination at the party's 1968 National Convention. |
| The 1923 Kraków riot resulted in over 30 fatalities and helped in the fall of the Chjeno-Piast government of Wincenty Witos. |
| Rommie Loudd was the first African American majority owner of a major league sports team. |
| In 2009, the newly discovered ultramicrobacterial species Herminiimonas glaciei was isolated from 120,000-year-old glacial ice, 3,042 metres (1.89 mi) deep. |
| John Murray, presenter of Ireland's most popular radio show, once worked as a deputy press secretary for the Irish government. |
| The Franco-American alliance (Battle of Yorktown pictured) was sealed in February 1778 by Benjamin Franklin, officializing French support in the American War of Independence. |
| The Lee Child novel The Visitor was published as Running Blind in the United States because the American publisher thought the original title sounded too much like a science-fiction novel. |
| Albert Adu Boahen, an academic at the University of Ghana, challenged former head of state of Ghana Jerry Rawlings in the presidential election of 1992. |
| The Yaocomico Native Americans traded the land that became St. Mary's City, Maryland to English settlers for tools and cloth. |
| The Pâquet family, which owned much of what is now Saint-Nicolas Heritage Site for over 150 years, has included local, provincial and federal politicians. |
| An estimated 75% of examples of American cobblestone architecture can be found within 75 miles (121 km) of Rochester, New York. |
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