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Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal.
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| Indian musician Niladri Kumar started learning the sitar at the age of four and gave his first live performance when he was six years old. |
| Singles from Stone Sour's self titled debut album received two Grammy Award nominations in consecutive years. |
| Charlie Crowe started an appeal to raise money for a machine to prevent Alzheimer's. |
| Price's Mill (pictured) was one of the few remaining operating water-powered gristmills in 1970 in South Carolina. |
| British motorcycle pioneer Bert Greeves owned a 1912 Triumph with the registration 'OLD 1'. |
| The Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge in Pineville, Kentucky, is one of only two bridges built in Kentucky by an in-state construction company. |
| The perpetrator of the Orly airport attack, Varujan Garabedian, was freed and deported to Armenia in 2001, after serving 17 years in jail. |
| unable to sell the radio station and facing financial difficulties, KORC in Waldport, Oregon, went dark on April Fool's Day 2009. |
| Wilmslow Road in Manchester is reputed to have the busiest bus corridor in Europe. |
| The Billy Joel and Ray Charles duet, "Baby Grand", was originally produced because Charles had contacted Joel over Joel naming his daughter after Charles. |
| The Labour party lost control of Hartlepool council for the first time in 21 years after the 2000 Hartlepool Council election. |
| Humbug Mountain (pictured) is one of the tallest mountains in Oregon to rise directly from the ocean. |
| The Gibson Mansion, once believed to be a haunted house, is now a historical museum with a working blacksmith. |
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