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Lyndon Johnson declined to respond to the Vietcong's Christmas Eve 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing, fearing that fighting during the holiday season would damage morale. 
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| During the Beslan school hostage crisis 74-year-old school teacher Yanis Kanidis refused to leave his students and ultimately died to save their lives. |
| In 1935, English cricketer Betty Snowball scored 189 runs against New Zealand in the fourth ever women's Test match, setting a world record that was not beaten for over 50 years. |
| The 18th-century Cabañas Hospital (pictured) in Guadalajara was built on one level, so as to facilitate the movement of the sick, the aged, and children. |
| Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass is one of the most popular German children's songs. |
| South African trade union legislation uses the term "conscientious objector" to refer to workers who do not want to join unions on the basis of personal beliefs. |
| The Banksia series Spicigerae is a taxonomic series of Banksia characterized by cylindrical inflorescences. |
| Russian poet and dissident Vadim Delaunay was a descendant of the the last governor of the Bastille, marquis Bernard-René de Launay. |
| The Christii fly primarily lives under the bark of smaller branches and twigs of dead aspen trees. |
| The Fremantle Arts Centre (pictured) was originally known as the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum and was built between 1861 and 1868 by British convicts. |
| Roy Smeck's virtuoso ukulele performance in the 1926 sound film "His Pastimes" sealed his reputation as "Wizard of the Strings". |
| according to Guinness World Records, carbon subnitride burns with the hottest flame of any chemical, at 5260 K (4987 °C, 9008 °F). |
| Onesimos Nesib, who translated the Bible into Oromo, was accused of blasphemy for delivering sermons in his native language and not Amharic, the language of the local Orthodox priests. |
| Raymond Monvoisin was a French painter and Legion of Honor recipient invited by the Chilean government to establish an Academy of Painting in Santiago, and who also dabbled in mining and ranching. |
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