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Of the ninety historic Synagogues of Kraków, Poland active before World War II, only the Remuh Synagogue (pictured) still serves as a Jewish house of prayer. 
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| An image of Tesslynn O'Cull, a child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepfather at the age of two, was used in the Stop the Abuse poster for Oregon. |
| One of the survivors of the Spafford Farm massacre (memorial pictured) hid in the forest for days after the attack because he erroneously thought that a local fort was overtaken by the Menominee. |
| Éva Gauthier was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert. |
| Humans have lived near Nevada's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD. |
| Saint Cerbonius was exiled to Elba after the bear brought in to execute him instead licked his feet. |
| RMS Dunottar Castle transported Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, Robert Baden-Powell, and Lord Roberts, among others, to and from Cape Colony, South Africa. |
| Stanisław Patek, dropped from the Russian Empire's list of attorneys for defending political dissidents, was later involved in the creation of a new Polish legal system. |
| Over 15,000 men of the battle-hardened 10th and 11th Divisions of the Imperial German Army were disbanded following World War I. |
| Joaquín Camacho (pictured), one of the Precursors of the Independence of Colombia, was executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed. |
| Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible. |
| The Calendar of saints of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes feasts for a number of individuals from Africa, including Bernard Mizeki, Robert Gray, Manche Masemola, and Charles Frederick Mackenzie. |
| The Javanese Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire. |
| The Austrian government gave the American soprano Teresa Stich-Randall the title of Kammersängerin given to esteemed artists. |
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