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James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway built the Great Northern Depot in Wayzata, Minnesota, in 1906 after moving the former stop a mile east of town 12 years earlier in a dispute with town residents. 
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| The bootleg album The Lost Paris Tapes contains the last known recording by Jim Morrison. |
| Alexander Novikov, double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force, was used to frame Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin. |
| The United States threatened privately to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem's Catholic regime as a result of chemical attacks on Buddhist protestors in Huế, Vietnam in 1963. |
| The gulf sturgeon, a subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon, fasts for eight to nine months each year. |
| Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule. |
| Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly. |
| fox tossing was a popular blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
| The National Art Gallery of Singapore will incorporate two national monuments — the Old Supreme Court Building and the City Hall (both pictured). |
| The eight-million-year-old cypresses found in northern Hungary are an archaeological phenomenon because none of the 16 tree trunks were fossilized. |
| Although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848. |
| three Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross for their role in the Battle of Mont St. Quentin, a battle that the commander of the British Fourth Army, General Henry Rawlinson, considered Australia's greatest military achievement of the war. |
| Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center. |
| Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church, one of the oldest in Egypt. |
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