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Actor Frederick Baltimore Calvert toured America lecturing on the English poets and then toured England talking about America. 
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| In the midst of battle, Joseph W. Revere (pictured), grandson of Paul Revere, apparently overwhelmed by news of his new command, rode to his men and yelled "Rearward!", causing him to be court-martialled. |
| In 1887, Norwegian Labour Party politician and physician Oscar Nissen claimed that only 10% of women had libido?. |
| According to the U.S. Supreme Court's Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police ruling, state officials are not always people for legal purposes. |
| operatic tenor Franz Ferenczy portrayed the role of Samson in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila on 2 December 1877. |
| The "Hilo Massacre" resulted in 50 casualties after Hawaiian police fired on 200 union protesters. |
| Kjell Heggelund has translated poems by Mao Zedong, as well as the French surrealists Paul Éluard and Robert Desnos into the Norwegian language. |
| The aquaculture industry in New Zealand aims to be a sustainable NZ$1 billion industry by 2025. |
| The engineers of the Triumph Bonneville 790 motorcycle deliberately built in some vibration to give it "character". |
| George Frideric Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonatas (No. 3 here) were not originally intended to be a set, and were only designated such in 1948. |
| The 2001 best seller Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War includes the case in which followers of Osho sprayed salmonella onto salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon. |
| The stegosaurid Miragaia had more neck vertebrae than almost all of the sauropod dinosaurs, known for their long necks. |
| Wilbert Tatum, editor of the New York Amsterdam News, ran front-page editorials from 1986 to 1989 critical of Mayor of New York Ed Koch with the title "Why Koch Should Resign". |
| The Yukon Quest is considered the toughest sled dog race in the world. |
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