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According to De primo Saxonum adventu, Osulf of Bamburgh was the first English "earl" of Northumbria. 
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| The first Baptist baptism in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Inhul of today's Kirovohrad Oblast. |
| A "witch's egg" (pictured), the immature form of the carrion-odoured common stinkhorn, is eaten in parts of France and Germany. |
| Marcin Dunin, primate of Poland, was once interned and arrested by the Prussian authorities. |
| Girls received the right to inherit the Danish throne as the result of a referendum in 1953. |
| In three days of nearly non-stop negotiations, Nathan Feinsinger mediated an end to a 1947 pineapple workers' strike which threatened the entire Hawaiian economy. |
| ...that the demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District in Omaha, Nebraska represents the largest loss of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places to date. |
| Fear of retaliatory terminations is a leading obstacle to union organizers in their efforts to unionize a workplace. |
| Those opposed to the construction of the Stroudwater Navigation used poetry to support their cause. |
| The Tarxien Temples (pictured) in Malta were discovered when the owner of a field figured that the large stones his workers kept hitting while ploughing may have some archaeological significance. |
| The naval history of China goes back as far as the Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC-481 BC). |
| Father Joseph Le Caron, the first European to see Lake Huron, also assisted at the first Catholic mass in Quebec and performed the first Christian marriage in Canada. |
| The Poker players alliance hired former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato to help overturn Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that makes it illegal for financial institutes to deal with online gambling sites. |
| An unnamed hurricane in 1975 attained hurricane status further north than any other Pacific hurricane before dissipating near Alaska. |
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