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The art critic Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a designer and engraver to King Louis XV's Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. 
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| On November 22, 2006, at least nine people were killed in a burning leather factory in India after being trapped behind locked emergency exits. |
| Zimbabwe is the only cricket team to not lose its first Test match since Australia won the very first Test in 1877. |
| Abraham Bosse (work pictured) wrote the first Manual of Etching, and was forced in 1661 to resign from the French Royal Academy of Art and Sculpture in a row over methods of perspective. |
| The support that Australian author Mary Grant Bruce gave to racial stereotypes and social Darwinism in her books was redacted from later editions. |
| Six Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres are charged with globally tracking tropical cyclones. |
| Mafioso Totò Riina eulogised Giuseppe Calderone as a great peacemaker, despite having been allegedly responsible for ordering his death. |
| venturi scrubbers uses the named effect explained by Bernoulli's principle to remove unwanted particles from an exhaust stream. |
| U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings. |
| Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964. |
| Graham Creek in California was a seasonal hunting and gathering ground for prehistoric Pomo and Wappo people. |
| Antonio Fontanesi (work pictured) was a trio of foreign artists chosen by the Meiji government to oversee Japan's first public art school. |
| Article 10 of the Constitution of Malaysia guarantees citizens certain rights on condition that these rights are not restricted by the government. |
| Astrophilately is the area of philately connected with human spaceflight. |
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