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| NASCAR champion David Pearson won three auto races in a season in a Ray Fox-prepared Pontiac (pictured) . |
| The Dix of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, a steamboat which sank and drowned over 45 people after a collision off Duwamish Head, Washington in 1906, was twice refused a seaworthiness certificate. |
| Much of Glencoe, Oregon, was relocated to the new town of North Plains after the railroad bypassed the old town. |
| The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek were Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who offered their lives during the Holocaust in exchange for the release of citizens of Nowogródek. |
| The Maltese European Union membership referendum saw the lowest support for joining, and highest turnout, of any of the states that held referendums on joining in 2003. |
| Abby and Julia Smith fought for women's suffrage by refusing to pay taxes to the Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut and almost lost their property Kimberly Mansion. |
| HMS Bonaventure became the first ship to re-enter service with the Clan Line after the end of the Second World War, having spent five years as a submarine depot ship. |
| After Dr. William Penny Brookes (pictured) began organising Olympian Games in Much Wenlock, England, in 1850, he was credited with inspiring the modern games. |
| Despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction. |
| Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary. |
| John Roby ignored some Lancashire oral traditions in writing about the boggart of Clegg Hall. |
| Times Square Stores, which went bankrupt in 1989, was once considered Long Island's most prominent discount department store chain. |
| The butterfly Heliconius heurippa may be a separate species from—but a hybrid of—the species Heliconius cydno and Heliconius melpomene, a possible example of hybrid speciation. |
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