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Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators. 
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| The Wabash College Little Giants were the only football team to defeat Notre Dame at home during a period of 29 years and 125 games. |
| Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World, a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle. |
| The stained glass windows (pictured) of Alois Plum, found in many German churches in Germany, integrate the architecture of the church's space with the liturgy. |
| The Elizabeth Cross will be given to the next of kin of members of the British Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist attack. |
| Much of the recorded rowdyism in New York of the 1820s took place at the short-lived Lafayette Circus. |
| Convergence of the iterative proportional fitting procedure for estimating cell values of a contingency table was rigorously proved using differential geometry. |
| The 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin was made as a tribute to guru Sri Chinmoy. |
| In 1975 professional wrestlers Sandy Parker and Jean Antoine had the first legal women's wrestling match in Oregon in 50 years. |
| The fungal genus Hericium includes the monkey's head fungus, used in Traditional Chinese medicine. |
| The family of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma (pictured), Polish Righteous among the Nations from Markowa, was summarily executed for rescuing their Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust. |
| 27 years after Barbara George's hit "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)" was released, a cover by Marisela peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart?. |
| In 2008, the United States produced 5,778 million bearing balls. |
| De Schoolmeester, a smock mill at Westzaan, Noord Holland, is the only wind powered paper mill in the world. |
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