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| Stanton windmill (pictured) has a wooden windshaft. |
| Czech singer and pianist Jiří Šlitr died from coal gas poisoning. |
| The summit of Mount Scott is the highest point in Crater Lake National Park. |
| "Thrilla in the Villa", the first season finale of Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, was seen by 858,000 households, about half the viewership of the season premiere one month earlier. |
| At the Battle of Pulo Aura, a fleet of East Indiamen under Commodore Nathaniel Dance fought off an entire French squadron. |
| In 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York, to the Hudson River. |
| In the 2008 motorcycle Scott Trial event, there were only 60 official finishers out of a starting entry of 200. |
| Eunice Taylor, a catcher for the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was the model for Rosie O'Donnell's character in the film A League of Their Own. |
| Toniná in Mexico (pyramid pictured) was one of the last of the Classic Period Maya cities to fall into ruin. |
| The Mirrorwing flyingfish attaches masses of its eggs to floating debris by a series of filaments on each egg. |
| Adam and Joe on BBC 6 Music won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for Radio Programme of the Year in its first six months of broadcast. |
| 16 people were killed in the 1999 Tashkent bombings when six car bombs were detonated, an attack most likely perpetrated by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. |
| Two trunk roads from London to the Sussex coast, the A22 and the A23, use parts of the London to Brighton Way. |
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