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Johan Castberg became the first Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs, only to leave office after one year due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen. 
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| Ismail Shammout's painting Where to ..?, depicting the Lydda Death March of July 1948, is said to have attained iconic status in Palestinian culture. |
| On April 7, 1977, baseball pitcher Ken Brett was the Chicago White Sox's Opening Day starter against the Toronto Blue Jays in the latter's first-ever regular season game. |
| When a Japanese honeybee hive is invaded by a giant hornet scout, the honeybees "bake" the hornet in a ball of about 500 bees (pictured). |
| Ohio teenager Vicki Lynne Cole held up a sign (which she hadn't read) saying "Bring Us Together Again" at a 1968 Nixon rally, and the candidate later mentioned it in his victory speech. |
| The fungus Helvella corium has been found growing on caustic spoil mounds of a soda factory and on uranium tailings. |
| American Louis Littlepage had to receive a special permission from the US Congress to serve as a secretary to the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski. |
| Still-extant English piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons once made instruments favoured by Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin. |
| radio station KBCH chose its call sign to represent the "20 Miracle Miles" of beaches in Lincoln County, Oregon. |
| A network of companies including the Chester Rolling Mill, Chester Pipe and Tube Company, Standard Steel Casting Company and Combination Steel and Iron Company made shipbuilder John Roach & Sons one of America's first vertically integrated businesses. |
| Between 2000 and 2008, 39 new species of lemur (Ring-tailed Lemur pictured) were described in Madagascar, bringing the total number of recognized species and subspecies to 99. |
| After Bill Sketoe was lynched in 1864, a hole dug to facilitate his hanging remained visible for over a century?. |
| A possible extension of the Røa Line metro to Øverland was considered in the interwar period, but did not materialize. |
| The SARK, the US Navy's Search and Rescue Knife, was designed and built within 24 hours by custom knifemaker Ernest Emerson. |
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