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The Russian academician Aleksey Shakhmatov attempted to reconstruct the earliest Slavic chronicle, supposedly compiled at the court of Yaroslav I the Wise in the mid-11th century. 
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| Rebels from the South Vietnamese army fought the loyalists of Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) for the Presidential Palace in a 1963 coup, not realising that Diem had escaped through a tunnel in an attempt to evade capture. |
| Jatindramohan Tagore, a theatre enthusiast, music and art-lover, and philanthropist, was the first Indian to be be a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898. |
| The first meeting between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890 and marked the beginning of the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition. |
| Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet inherited the Edmund Nuttall engineering business and the Nuttall family baronetcy in 1941, aged 8. |
| The Tai chi classics are manuscripts and commentaries that are used as standards for the correct study and practice of the art of tai chi chuan. |
| astronomer Russell M. Genet founded the first totally automatic robotic observatory. |
| Andrew Clemens designed hundreds of elaborate sand bottles from 1880–1886 some of which are valued at more than US$25,000 today. |
| The dioptic lens at Start Point lighthouse was the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt lectured at the short-lived Surrey Institution (pictured), and Goldsworthy Gurney won recognition there for his work on blowpipes. |
| The annual Suicide Race is a horse race where riders charge down a 225-foot (68.58m) slope at a 62-degree angle into and through the Okanogan River. |
| Cornelius Canis was the music director at the imperial chapel of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. |
| The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made rainwater harvesting mandatory to address a critical water shortage. |
| The Solar Sentinels, a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun, will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth's distance. |
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