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Three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors. 
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| In Faridah Begum bte Abdullah v. Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, it was held that non-Malaysian citizens cannot sue a Malay ruler. |
| Yakov Kreizer (pictured) was the first Soviet general awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title during World War II. |
| The carom billiards game, cushion caroms, was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain. |
| The Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island. |
| William Henry Holbert, a catcher for the 19th century New York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without a home run. |
| After former House representative John H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, he went back to his home in Long Beach, California and became a real estate broker. |
| Famed Japanese literary critic Kobayashi Hideo toured China as a guest of the Imperial Japanese Army, with future Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari. |
| Xanten Cathedral (interior pictured), declared a basilica minor by Pope Pius XI, may be the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the North Sea. |
| Sir Francis Mitchell was the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded. |
| The Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure. |
| The song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter. |
| The Romanian anti-communist resistance movement, operating between 1948 and 1960, was one of the most enduring armed resistance movement in the former Soviet bloc. |
| The Vietnam War veteran Wesley Autrey jumped onto a New York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man. |
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