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Of the three breeding roosts in England for the rare Barbastelle bat, the only indoor roost is found in Norfolk's historic Paston Great Barn. 
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| England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists. |
| The Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove. |
| The Środa treasure, one of the most valuable archeological finds in 20th-century Europe, was originally lost during the Black Plague. |
| The 1947 Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim included eleven songs George and Ira Gershwin had written but never used in any productions. |
| The flamboyant TV appearances of British rock and roll singer Wee Willie Harris led to concerns about the BBC's role in promoting teenage decadence. |
| Julius Caesar speculated his name Caesar to have been derived from the elephant, reportedly called caesai in the "Moorish", probably Punic language. |
| The Metropolitan Opera House is a movie theatre in Iowa Falls, Iowa. |
| Pope Pius XII's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust. |
| The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program about a modern family that tries to live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz?. |
| Of the 81 Canadian casualties during Hurricane Hazel, 35 lived on Raymore Drive in Weston, Toronto, Ontario. |
| Maggie Cogan was the first female horse and buggy driver in New York City's Central Park. |
| In 1926, Odd Gleditsch, Sr. founded the company Jotun Kemiske Fabrik, since 1972 named Jotun. |
| Robert Brown was only 22 when he was commander of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1864. |
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