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Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek. 
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| The MasterCard International Global Headquarters building (pictured) was designed by modernist architect I. M. Pei. |
| William Lewis Moody, Jr. once took over all of Conrad Hilton's hotels. |
| The setting of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Snow-Bound, a house in which a family is trapped for three days by a snowstorm, is still standing. |
| Sir George Coldstream, the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, was described as "one of the 10 men who run Britain". |
| professional wrestler Brain Damage held the CZW Iron Man and the CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championships simultaneously. |
| Cooks syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails. |
| The album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel's status as Norway's "king of pop". |
| Charles Wesley Shilling, a physician in the United States Navy, was the first person to transfer from a submarine to the surface in a rescue diving bell (pictured). |
| Producer Anna Turner, co-host of Hearts of Space as "Annamystic", reportedly communicated with a spirit named Lazaris. |
| The Norwegian coastal steamer SS Barøy replaced a vessel sunk by the Royal Navy during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign and was herself sunk by the Fleet Air Arm the next year. |
| Medieval historian Dorothy Whitelock called the Liber Eliensis "unique among post-Conquest monastic histories". |
| Thompson Pass holds the Alaskan records for snowfall in a single day, a whole winter, and the annual average snowfall. |
| The pro-communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party. |
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