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PlumpJack Winery was the first winery in the Napa Valley to use screwcaps as a wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over USD$100 per bottle. 
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| The mother of Jamila Massey, an Indian actress and writer, refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father. |
| Squirrel Systems introduced the first touch screen point of sale terminal in 1984. |
| A boycott of Juanes' song "La Camisa Negra" was organized after it was used by neo-fascists. |
| The July Theses, a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, were inspired by his visits to Communist China, Korea and Vietnam. |
| The Best Bet, a film by Singaporean gambling addict Jack Neo, was intended to warn people of the perils of gambling. |
| An entire army had to retreat during the Cádiz Expedition of 1625 because almost all had become drunk on wine taken from a village they were raiding. |
| The term reserve heads (pictured) found in Ancient Egyptian tombs is derived from the prevalent theory that they serve as an alternate home for the spirit of the dead owner should anything happen to the body. |
| Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting". |
| Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon. |
| When Birmingham-based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London. |
| Numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime'. |
| The units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border. |
| Work, painted over 13 years from 1852 to 1865, is generally considered to be the most important painting by Ford Madox Brown. |
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