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| In 1992, the Utah Utes football team, coached by Ron McBride, ended a 28-year bowl game drought by appearing in the 1992 Copper Bowl. |
| The shooting death of striking miner Tom Manning in the 1920 Anaconda Road Massacre in Butte, Montana is still officially unsolved. |
| Jan Władysław Dawid was a lecturer at the Flying University in Warsaw. |
| Nymphaea nouchali (pictured) is the national flower of Sri Lanka where it is known as Nil Manel in Sinhala. |
| Wushan Man, a species of Homo, was identified from a fossil jaw found south of the Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct ape that lived in China two million years ago. |
| Congregation Emanu-El in Victoria, British Columbia, built in 1863 in the building boom that followed the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, is the oldest surviving synagogue in Canada. |
| The windmill at Aylsham in Norfolk was built so well that its demolition was abandoned. |
| Aso Mining Company, which belongs to Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II. |
| Hans G. Furth, Professor in the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of America, trained to become a concert pianist and performed for Jewish internment camps. |
| The City of Carlisle is the largest city in England in terms of area, but is one of the smallest by population. |
| Chitradurga Fort (pictured) in Karnataka has so many interconnecting tanks to harvest rain water, it was said it never ran out of water. |
| Helena Palaiologina, Queen consort of Cyprus, gave orders for the nose of her husband's beautiful mistress to be cut off. |
| In 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti. |
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