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| San Ildefonso College (pictured) in Mexico City is considered the birthplace of Mexican muralism. |
| In a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist Johan Hultin retrieved samples of the 1918 influenza virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost. |
| The cotton presses near Latta, South Carolina and Tarboro, North Carolina, are antebellum, animal-powered, handmade wooden presses. |
| V. Ramaswami was the first Justice of the Supreme Court of India to face impeachment proceedings in independent India. |
| The Lake Chelan wine region petition was delayed because of a hold on all AVA approvals due to the Napa Valley sub-AVA controversy. |
| Ann-Kristin Olsen was the first female chief of police in Norway as well as the first female Governor of Svalbard. |
| Salbit, thought to have been the site of the biblical Shaalabbin, was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. |
| Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first African-American journalist to accompany a U.S. president while traveling. |
| In 1907, the medieval Great Hall of Lytes Cary manor house (pictured) was being used as a cider store. |
| An early Washington National Opera, unrelated to its modern namesake, presented Bidu Sayão in her 1936 U.S. operatic debut with organ, not orchestra, accompaniment owing to a financial dispute?. |
| The Lipka Rebellion of 1672 was the only time that the Muslim Lipka Tatars mutinied against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
| Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn collaborated on the South Bronx Hall of Fame, monuments of ordinary people, as a response to the practice of enshrining public figures. |
| South Africa's Take a Girl Child to Work Day started in 2003 to fight gender inequality in the workforce. |
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