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Howard T. Markey, the first chief judge of the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and a major general in the Air Force Reserve, asked his nursing home staff to alternate calling him judge and general. 
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| The U.S. Supreme Court decided in Michigan v. Jackson that a confession made during a police-initiated interrogation, after a request for counsel was made, would be inadmissible in court. |
| The Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fengji's eight associates were known as the "eight passes" for the difficulty involved in going through them to meet him. |
| Herb Treat, unanimously selected as a 1922 College Football All-American, was hit by a car in 1943 and plunged nine stories from a hotel window in 1947. |
| Concert Allegro, the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance, has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt". |
| Will Kane was Gary Cooper's second Academy Award-winning role. |
| The Norwegian ice block expedition of 1959 (pictured) drove three tons of ice from the Polar Circle to the Equator – with no refrigeration – and lost only around 11% of the original weight. |
| World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea. |
| soprano Sylvia Cecil joined and left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company three times during her career. |
| Otto Preminger completed the film That Lady in Ermine after Ernst Lubitsch died, insisting the original director get sole screen credit out of "respect and admiration for the departed master". |
| Mahatma Gandhi stayed at the house of publisher and journalist G. A. Natesan during his first visit to Madras on returning from South Africa in 1915. |
| The 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis, Indiana, lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured. |
| Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering. |
| The Norton P11 desert racing motorcycle was launched in the US under the advertising slogan Dynamite on wheels. |
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