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| Despite being named one of the "top prospects of the decade" by Baseball America, American baseball pitcher Nick Neugebauer compiled a career record of just two wins and eight losses. |
| The Tonkin commemorative medal was awarded to the French soldiers and sailors who participated in the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War, between 1883 and 1885. |
| The Little Red Schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, served as a one-room schoolhouse from the 1830s until 1952. |
| Zalman Shapiro, who received a 2009 patent for a method of diamond synthesis at age 89, was instrumental in developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, launched in 1954. |
| By the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards. |
| Marie Taglioni (pictured) made her 1830 London debut in Flore et Zéphire, the ballet credited with the introduction of dancing sur les pointes. |
| Hughie Lehman, the Blackhawks third head coach, was hired after yelling at the first Chicago Blackhawks owner Frederic McLaughlin. |
| Czech actress Olga Scheinpflugová suffered a heart attack directly on the stage, during her performance in the play Mother, written by her husband Karel Čapek. |
| Due to rapids on the Rogue River, mules had to be used to transport mail to the post office at Illahe, Oregon. |
| The song "Qué Te Pasa", performed by Mexican singer Yuri, became the longest running number-one single of the 1980s in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks. |
| Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting became a professor at King's College London and Imperial College, London after a successful military career of 35 years with the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine. |
| The Rumford Prize, awarded for excellent contributions to the fields of heat and light, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in America. |
| Matthew Boulton's (pictured) Soho Mint struck the first copper British pennies. |
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