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Despite dropping out of a screenwriting course at university before graduating, Christopher B. Landon went on to write the box office hit film Disturbia. 
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| Although it was mocked by Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) as the "Congress for Defectors", Jagjivan Ram's Congress for Democracy helped the opposition Janata Party win the 1977 election. |
| 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel. |
| The success of the championship 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team inspired promoters to form the first National Football League in 1902. |
| Angeles University Foundation, Arellano University and the Emilio Aguinaldo College are the guest teams playing in the 2009 basketball season of the Philippine NCAA. |
| SN 2002cx was classified as a type Ia supernova, but does not have some features that define a type Ia supernova. |
| HMS Canopus served for less than six months for the French Navy, and then for 89 years for the Royal Navy. |
| W. J. M. Lokubandara (pictured), the current Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, assumed the position after he won the election by one vote. |
| The "Wizard of Oz" and "Iron Man" are just two of the four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who have won Gold Glove Awards at shortstop. |
| Ingvald Smith-Kielland left his ambassadorship in the Czechoslovak Republic after the Prague Spring. |
| Defunct Christian radio station KPBA was owned by former National Football League tight end Jackie Harris. |
| Earl Donnchadh of Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel, but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed. |
| Xi, a console-based alternate reality game, involved the users in searching for clues in the real world. |
| As Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Wayne L. Horvitz played a major role in negotiating labor disputes ranging from coal strikes to musicians at the Metropolitan Opera. |
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