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The Kaleva, a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression. 
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| The taillight shark has a gland on its belly that releases clouds of luminescent blue fluid. |
| Freeman Fitzgerald played football with Knute Rockne and once struck out 19 batters in a baseball game. |
| Mincarlo is the last surviving sidewinder fishing trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet. |
| Indian labour leader J. Hemachandran called for a ban on sales of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state of Tamil Nadu. |
| The inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens took place in Scotland, the birthplace of the rugby sevens variant of rugby union. |
| James F. Calvert (pictured) commanded the nuclear submarine USS Skate, the first ever to surface at the North Pole when it did so on August 11, 1958. |
| The New York Yankees refused to allow its logo to appear in the Homicide: Life on the Street three-part episode "Blood Ties", which featured a subplot involving a murderous Yankees fan. |
| Historian Philip D. Curtin challenged widely-used estimates that 20 million African slaves had crossed the Atlantic, estimating that 9.5 million had arrived in the Americas by 1870. |
| limbic resonance is a process of "internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other's inner states". |
| Canadian security guard Claude Brunelle, who was killed during the 1985 Turkish embassy attack in Ottawa, was awarded the Star of Courage. |
| Charles Perrault's The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots existed in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript a full two years before its publication in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. |
| Laura M. Cobb (pictured) of the US Navy Nurse Corps was a Japanese POW in World War II for 37 months, during which time she continued to serve as Chief Nurse for ten other imprisoned Navy nurses. |
| The protagonist of the Japanese PlayStation 2 RPG Venus & Braves is a 345-year-old with the appearance of a teen. |
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