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| Edward Schildhauer's design for the Panama Canal railway and lock machinery has remained in use for almost 100 years. |
| Charlotte Wilson was murdered by Hutu rebels in Burundi during the Titanic Express massacre. |
| Career US diplomat George Wadsworth, Chargé d'affaires in Italy at the onset of World War II, was one of the last American personnel to leave the country. |
| Alexander Korzhakov contends that his political adversaries wanted to kill his main rival in the 1997 parliamentary by-election in Tula in order to deem it invalid. |
| Nenets painter Konstantin Pankov had never seen a painting before he began painting landscapes of the Far North. |
| Kazakhstan Temir Zholy is building a transshipment railway to connect China with Europe using standard gauge. |
| The 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division was a Polish military unit, created from volunteers and self-defence units of the Kresy territories. |
| During Jake Gaither's tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships. |
| Even in perfect darkness, the retina spontaneously sends signals down the optic nerve, causing a sensation of gray called eigengrau. |
| The National Labor Board established the doctrine of representational exclusivity in American labor relations, a rule still used today. |
| Maharaja Gulab Singh, founder of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, was illiterate. |
| Former Eight is Enough actress Susan Richardson battled an addiction to cocaine after using the drug for weight loss following her pregnancy. |
| Alevtina Kolchina was the first female Nordic skier and first person from the Soviet Union (now Russia) to receive the Holmenkollen medal in 1963. |
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