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| Despite the scar literature after China's Cultural Revolution contributing to Deng Xiaoping's return to power, he later suppressed it. |
| light echoes appear to exceed the speed of light due to simple interstellar illusions. |
| Somewhere between 25–33% of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine. |
| David Farragut (pictured) in 1862 became the first Hispanic U.S. Navy Admiral. |
| Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee John Pesek was also inducted into the Greyhound National Hall of Fame. |
| The 1964 South Vietnamese coup by General Nguyen Khanh succeeded despite his accomplice General Tran Thien Khiem oversleeping. |
| The first documented discovery of gold in California, was at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush. |
| Australian cricketer John Gleeson attributed the finger strength used in his two-finger bowling action to a childhood of milking cows. |
| The body of a 5th-century Germanic warrior found with the Treasure of Pouan was initially thought to be that of Theodoric I. |
| The Achelous-class landing craft repair ship USS Krishna (pictured) and her sister ship USS Indra are the only U.S. Naval vessels to have borne the name of a Hindu deity. |
| females of the tropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae are able to hold sperm in their ovaries for several months. |
| The Romanian politician Costică Canacheu campaigns for the official recognition of Aromanians as a national minority in his country. |
| labor union activist Sam Pollock, who helped lead the Auto-Lite Strike, is the grandfather of noted experimental filmmaker Damon Packard. |
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