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The Muncy Creek Railroad tried to save money by using wooden rails in 1875, but found they were too light to support its trains. 
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| The 2002 Redditch Council election saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years. |
| Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series. |
| McCaw Cellular began business by buying, selling and trading licenses for cellular frequency allocations after an AT&T article that suggested they were being sold at a discount. |
| The French pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV was the first ship to mount a superfiring gun turret. |
| Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band. |
| Nancy Cartwright (pictured) received a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category for her performance as Bart Simpson in the Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations". |
| Thomas Patch, who painted men on their Grand Tours, had to leave Rome after a homosexual act?. |
| The ecosystem contained in Myanmar's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming. |
| The Jewish mother of former German Federal Minister of Justice Gerhard Jahn died at Auschwitz. |
| originally established as the Federation of Crippled and Disabled in 1935, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services switched to its current name in 1992. |
| Nikolai Schei survived an assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway. |
| The 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history. |
| Jonathan Stokes was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis (pictured). |
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