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George W. Taylor assisted unions by mediating more than 2,000 strikes, but also helped draft New York's Taylor Law—which banned strikes by public employees. 
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| while awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops. |
| The album cover artwork of Behemoth's Evangelion is a depiction of "The Great Harlot of Babylon", the figure of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. |
| Marcus Favonius, in attempting to imitate the manner of Cato the Younger, frequently descended into rudeness. |
| The Japanese American internment during World War II cost Seattle's Lincoln High School the presidents of its two service clubs and the editor of its school newspaper. |
| Georgette Sanchez won the silver medal in the 9th Paris International Dance Competition. |
| Of the eleven wrestlers who have held the PWG World Championship, Low Ki is the only to have lost the title outside the ring. |
| 19th-century actor Henry Neville was the twentieth child of a twentieth child. |
| At least 37 cities of the ancient world placed an image of the Gorgon's head on their coins (example pictured). |
| During the term of Governor of Indiana Isaac P. Gray, a dispute arose that led the entire Indiana General Assembly to break into a fist fight, with Democrats and Republicans threatening to kill each other. |
| Despite being armed en flûte as a troopship, HMS Wilhelmina still engaged and drove off a more heavily armed privateer to protect the merchant she was escorting. |
| In 1875 actress Kate Bishop created the role of Violet Melrose in Our Boys, which was by far the longest-running work of theatre up to that time. |
| The Hanuman Temple, Connaught Place, in New Delhi, is unusual in having the Islamic symbol of a crescent moon fixed on its spire instead of a Hindu symbol like Aum or the sun. |
| 2009 American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Miss Meyers was the mother of the first American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Supreme Champion, fathered by fellow AQHA Hall of Famer Three Bars. |
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