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Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) William H. Anderson (pictured) and his observer, Lieutenant J.R. Bell, accounted for No. 3 Squadron AFC's first confirmed kill in World War I. 
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| The German neo-Nazi German Alternative party was banned in 1992 after the group was associated with an arson attack on an asylum seeker refuge. |
| The uniformly fine quality of surviving Roman copies of Lysippean bronze Hermes Fastening his Sandal indicates that it stood high in Roman esteem. |
| Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams was born in the house at the John H. Addams Homestead (pictured). |
| The 14 remaining children of the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo, Norway were evacuated to Sweden by the Norwegian resistance movement in November 1942. |
| Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, having shot down 8 German aircraft, including three during one mission. |
| The Rani people, a West Slavic tribe inhabiting the island of Rugia, maintained their native paganism, its ritual, temple, and priesthood, well into the twelfth century. |
| Members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church were persecuted by communists in the Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia. |
| Kuryer Polski was the first daily Polish language newspaper in the USA. |
| During World War II, United States Army officer Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr. (pictured) parachuted behind enemy lines to lead an attack that captured the town of Pretot, France leading the main Plaza of the town to be named "La Place de Colonel Mendez". |
| The leader of the Dick Cheney protests at Brigham Young University refused an offer to appear on The Daily Show, out of a concern that the show would poke fun at the university. |
| The Minnesota Twins made Joe Nathan their closing pitcher for the 2004 Major League Baseball season, despite the fact that Nathan only had converted one save in five opportunities. |
| The 13th-century troubadour Guilhem Figueira was a strong critic of the contemporary Papacy, going so far in his sirventes contra Roma as to consign Rome to hell. |
| The Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) has 20 other common names in the aquarium trade. |
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