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Boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up. 
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| In his varied career in French politics, Raymond Janot was concurrently mayor of a small town and secretary-general of the international French Community. |
| The Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time. |
| The modern history of aviation in Bangladesh began by meeting the needs of the Royal Indian Air Force for its World War II Burma campaign. |
| Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s. |
| The Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward. |
| The Splendid Fairy-wren (pictured) of Western Australia is more closely related to the Crow than the original European Wren. |
| Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a resistance fighter for over half his life. |
| U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war. |
| Itzik Zohar scored Israel's first international goal in football after gaining full admittance to UEFA. |
| General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor. |
| ribbon diagrams, which represent the three-dimensional structure of proteins, are produced by a computerized spline function. |
| Paul Henkel, operating out of his son's printing house, became one of the first and only Lutheran publishers in the United States for years. |
| When British charity Aid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to the Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo. |
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