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Jim Hermiston, a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame", was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999. 
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| Robert Lindahl, the recording engineer on The Kingsmen's famous version of "Louie Louie", lost his job as a disc jockey for KBKR because he refused to empty the Oregon station's chemical toilet. |
| Håkon Stenstadvold, rector of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, was a member of the Bærum municipal council. |
| The Vassar Home for Aged Men, in Poughkeepsie, New York, could not operate at full capacity until Matthew Vassar's wife died and left it the money to do so. |
| Marc Sautet started the philosophical cafe known as Café Philosophique. |
| Despite the decisive action of the Trafalgar Campaign being the Battle of Trafalgar (pictured), the final action was fought a fortnight later, at the Battle of Cape Ortegal. |
| Catherina Margaretha Linck is the last European known to have been executed for lesbianism. |
| A student at Clatskanie Middle/High School organized a statewide food drive in Oregon that earned the student a national award. |
| Songwriter Gordon Chambers credited his hometown of Teaneck, New Jersey, with fostering his dream of becoming a professional. |
| Novelist Michael Crichton and seven Nobel laureates, among others, wrote the 1972 textbook Biology Today. |
| In 1970, George M. Stafford became the first presidentially-appointed Interstate Commerce Commission chair, 83 years after it was formed. |
| Despite strong support from England, all three Huguenot rebellions in southwestern France were suppressed by King Louis XIII. |
| Don Cardwell was the Chicago Cubs' Opening Day starting pitcher against the Houston Colt .45s (now known as the Astros) on April 10, 1962, the first official game in Colt .45 history. |
| Atlantic herrings form immense fish schools (pictured) containing up to three billion fish. |
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