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| Epidemiologist Brian MacMahon showed for the first time that women who give birth early in life may have a lower risk of breast cancer. |
| Samuel Johnson wrote a satirical verse on the 21st birthday of his protégé Sir John Lade (pictured) that, aside from correctly predicting his future career, partly inspired A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. |
| The strength of the Ukrainian People's Army fell from 300,000 to just 15,000 after five months of war with Soviet Russia. |
| University of Michigan All-American softball player Jenny Allard has led Harvard University to its first four Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995. |
| A discontinued 1980s hockey helmet by sporting goods manufacturer Cooper Canada Ltd. is today used in making a particular puppet. |
| The Grey-faced Sengi is the first living species of elephant shrew to be described in over a century. |
| Despite denouncing Fidel Castro's 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President. |
| In the early 1950s Air Marshal Donald Hardman (pictured) transformed the Royal Australian Air Force's command structure from one based on geographical area to one based on operational function. |
| Due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, English letter writers often used two dates on their letters, a practice known as dual dating. |
| Tiggy Legge-Bourke was the nanny of Prince William of Wales and his brother Prince Harry. |
| Tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee, now a business district in Kolkata, India. |
| The indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people. |
| When Jean-Paul Sartre's classic first novel Nausea appeared in 1938, it was reviewed by Albert Camus, still a journalist in Algeria working on his own later-classic first novel, The Stranger. |
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