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The 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War. 
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| The Japanese visual novel Princess Lover!'s anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Television Kanagawa prior to its televised broadcast. |
| King Kot aMweeky of the Kuba Kingdom told his people that William Henry Sheppard (pictured) was his deceased son, in order to spare Sheppard's life. |
| The Gangavaram Port is the deepest port in India. |
| although mayor Hardin Bigelow served the city of Sacramento for only seven months, a flood, several fires, a riot, and a cholera epidemic all afflicted the city during his term. |
| Some historians believe Goscelin of St Bertin may have been the author of the anonymous Life of King Edward. |
| The Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio, Texas, contains the graves of legendary Justice of the Peace Roy Bean and his son, Sam. |
| In 1696, Catherine Bernard established the aesthetic principle of the French literary conte de fées with the dictum: "the [adventures] should always be implausible and the emotions always natural". |
| "Racing in the Street" commemorates the racing that occurred on a little fire road outside Bruce Springsteen's home town of Asbury Park. |
| Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco has the distinction of having an open cluster and a 4 m (13 ft) telescope in Chile (pictured) named after him. |
| Togo Tanaka publicly called Japan's government "stupid" the day after Pearl Harbor for starting an unwinnable war but was one of 10,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to the Manzanar camp?. |
| Courts applying the dominant factor test have determined that poker is not gambling. |
| The bench from which David Salomons rose to become the first Jew ever to speak in the British Parliament is preserved in the Salomons Museum. |
| The time travel video game Achron allows players to play simultaneously and independently in the past, present, and future. |
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