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| Former American football linebacker Craig Sauer has three brothers who have played professional ice hockey. |
| The Southern White-cheeked Gibbon may be a hybrid species of the Northern White-cheeked Gibbon and the Yellow-cheeked Gibbon. |
| Carter Brey was appointed the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996. |
| Although the name "Joni" was retired after the 1992–93 South Pacific cyclone season by the WMO, it remained on the naming lists to be used again for Cyclone Joni (2009). |
| George A. Steel (pictured) was elected as Oregon State Treasurer after his company went bankrupt. |
| Blender magazine called the Huey Lewis and the News hit song "The Heart of Rock & Roll" one of the "50 Worst Songs Ever". |
| Asad Ali Khan, one of a few remaining rudra veena players, was awarded the Indian civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2008. |
| There were two unrelated Jewish anarchists named Alexander Schapiro active in Russia during the civil war, one in the Bolshevik government and the other leading a cadre of anarchist revolutionaries against it. |
| One year after a fire damaged Lausanne Hall at Willamette University, the dormitory had to be evacuated due to a suspicious package. |
| Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League. |
| The 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator Hurdia was thought to be a number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was reconstructed in March 2009. |
| baritone William Dooley performed the title role in the world premiere of Marcel Mihalovici's one character opera Krapp, ou, La dernière bande in 1961. |
| The Illinois Centennial Monument (pictured) is a marble Doric column built to scale with the columns of the Parthenon. |
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