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In 1905, Edmund Harbitz declined to join the cabinet of his former law firm partner Christian Michelsen. 
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| American aircraft designer Clyde Vernon Cessna's most famous inventions included the cantilever wing and the V-shaped tail configuration. |
| The Supreme Court of Civil Judicature of New South Wales was the first Supreme Court in Australia and that its first judge evaded hearing any cases. |
| In 1775 military-minded Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dedicated the Schönbrunn Palace Garden Gloriette as a monument to Just War. |
| The congress hall on the site of the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg has been converted into a museum. |
| neonatal nurses are in high demand in the United States because the number of nurses has not kept up with the 27 percent rise in premature births (premature infant pictured) over the last 20 years. |
| Chinese immigration to the Russian Far East has led to fears of Chinese irredentism in Russia, even though there are under 35,000 Chinese in all of Russia. |
| Catherine Lim's 1994 essay The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide invoked such a strong response from the Singapore government, its then-PM Goh Chok Tong outlined which topics were permissible for public discussion. |
| The Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, a World Heritage Site, is considered to be the "spiritual heart" of Andorra. |
| Hugh O'Bryant, the first mayor of Portland, Oregon, was elected into office by a mere four votes. |
| French explorer Christian de Bonchamps (pictured) proposed breaking a stalemate in treaty negotiations by capturing and holding hostage Msiri, King of Katanga. |
| The duckbilled dinosaur Hypacrosaurus is known from the largest collection of hatchling remains for any duckbill, due to the discovery of nests belonging to H. stebingeri. |
| The Very Reverend Anthony Bridge, brother of former Law Lord Lord Bridge of Harwich, gave up a career as an artist to become a Church of England priest. |
| endocrinologist Sir Raymond Hoffenberg was forced to leave South Africa in 1968 due to his opposition to apartheid, and was later President of the Royal College of Physicians and President of Wolfson College, Oxford. |
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