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Malaysian Army Corporal Maniam Moorthy, a member of the first team of Malaysians to summit Mount Everest, fell during army training a year later and became a paraplegic. 
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| Remaining papal tombs in the Catacomb of Callixtus were emptied in the ninth century because of a feared Lombard invasion. |
| At age 22, Captain Jose M. Portela of the United States Air Force was the youngest C-141 Starlifter aircraft commander and captain. |
| The 1915 Triumph Model H was the first Triumph not fitted with pedals, so it was their first true motorcycle. |
| Kyell Gold, a furry homosexual erotic literature author, has won six Ursa Major Awards, equaling Usagi Yojimbo author Stan Sakai. |
| St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, New York held Sunday services for nearly 100 years in its chapel (pictured) during wintertime because it was too difficult to heat the main church building. |
| Vice Admiral Sir James Willis was the last head of the Royal Australian Navy to be knighted. |
| The headquarters of the Inquisition in Mexico has been converted into a museum dedicated to the history of medicine in Mexico. |
| George Nicholas Hardinge served as a midshipman aboard HMS St Fiorenzo in 1793, a ship he would die commanding fifteen years later. |
| Cam'ron filed a lawsuit against R. Kelly as he did not receive credit for his remix of "Snake". |
| Recently deceased photographer Luke Smalley's earlier collections were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks circa 1910. |
| The legal reforms that came about as a result of the Glanville Davies affair were far weaker than those initially proposed. |
| After leaving Global TV after founding it three months earlier, Al Bruner became one of the first broadcasters to consider local insertion on television. |
| The Frot-Laffly landship (pictured) was an early tank design based on a compactor, and built by France in early 1915. |
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