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Hurricane Alma (pictured) was the first of three consecutive tropical cyclones to strike the Pacific coast of Mexico during a ten day span. 
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| Although an Iron Workers union member planted the dynamite in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, the 21 people who died in the explosion and fire were all workers and not managers. |
| Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The New Yorker, was convinced to write for The Atlantic Monthly when publisher David G. Bradley purchased ponies for Goldberg's children. |
| Public support for the revitalization of Esther Short Park (pictures) located in Vancouver, Washington, increased in 1997 after the mayor was attacked by a transient in the park. |
| Despite being portrait painter to Queen Victoria, John Partridge's career plummeted after a dispute with Ramsay Richard Reinagle over altering one of his paintings. |
| Yingzao Fashi is a Chinese technical treatise on architecture and craftsmanship written during the mid-Song Dynasty. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s jobs if they did not make sure a new post office was built in his hometown of Hyde Park. |
| rainbow sharks are Cyprinids, making them relatives of goldfish, carp and minnows. |
| The Vladimirka, a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga, is mentioned in the works of Herzen, Nekrasov and Dostoevsky. |
| The Weinhard Brewery (pictured) managed to survive prohibition by producing near-beer, root beer and syrup, which were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs". |
| When Democratic congressman A. Jeff McLemore opposed President Woodrow Wilson over the United States' entry into World War I, the Texas legislature redrew the state's congressional districts in 1917 to force him to run against another incumbent. |
| The Romanian politician and socialite Pantazi Ghica was identified as the "black-faced, hunchbacked and greedy" person depicted, alongside other liberals, in one of Mihai Eminescu's most famous poems. |
| The S.S. Christopher Columbus, the only whaleback passenger liner ever built, carried 1.8 million passengers to and from the World's Columbian Exposition in a single season. |
| Downtown Omaha is home to 31 historic buildings, two historic districts, and the site of the largest loss of historic buildings ever from the National Register of Historic Places. |
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