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| The 1749 pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home blamed influences from France and Italy for promoting effeminacy and homosexual contact among British gentlemen. |
| Ukrainian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales. |
| Pioneering lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster". |
| The rarely seen Rufous Scrub-bird occurs on Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales, Australia. |
| Although the Stonewall riots in 1969 are generally recognized as the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement, there were over a dozen pre-Stonewall LGBT rights actions in the US (Barbara Gittings pictured picketing). |
| John Mayberry, Jr. hit his first two career home runs against the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays, the last two Major League Baseball teams for which his father John Mayberry played. |
| A Maya ruler of Ixlu, a small ancient city in Guatemala, claimed to be the lord of the major Maya city of Tikal. |
| Michel T. Halbouty was a wildcatter who was credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, though he twice declared bankruptcy. |
| The classically-inspired porticoes on the Hudson, New York, post office echo those of the Columbia County courthouse across the square. |
| The Veterans Benevolent Association, an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge. |
| Although he headed the Royal Stables of Norway from 1945 to 1960, Richard Andvord only had responsibility for motor vehicles. |
| Wilsonville Memorial Park is both the oldest and largest park in Wilsonville, Oregon, and includes a barn built in 1901 (pictured). |
| Frank Bossard was the first spy caught with the aid of an electronic transmitter. |
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