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The Laigh Milton viaduct (pictured), built in 1812, is the oldest surviving railway viaduct in Scotland and one of the oldest in the world. 
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| In 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee. |
| During the St. John's University strike of 1966–7, Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI to win his support. |
| In the landmark case Erie v. Pap's A. M., the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an ordinance requiring some erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string. |
| Julius Kuperjanov (pictured), a partisan leader in the Estonian War of Independence, died in a successful assault in the 1919 Battle of Paju. |
| Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her. |
| Jack Daniels, a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at campaign events. |
| When Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan. |
| Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany. |
| Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake. |
| Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading British Frederick Roberts to put a £1,000 reward on his head. |
| gamma ray burst progenitors include massive, rapidly rotating stars that may explode as hypernovae (Eta Carinae pictured). |
| Literary magazine Mundo Nuevo had to be abandoned by its founder because of a CIA scandal. |
| In 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. |
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