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Estonia joined World War II in 1940, when the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed. 
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| The conviction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was formally overturned by the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 1975. |
| Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South. |
| giant kelp (pictured) can grow as much as two feet per day, making it the fastest-growing organism on Earth. |
| Today, most Butts are Muslims, although some practice Hinduism or Christianity. |
| Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II. |
| Statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure. |
| You Chung Hong, the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California, helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway. |
| Almost a quarter of the brown lanternsharks found in Suruga Bay, Japan, have both male and female organs. |
| The doom metal band Bloody Panda performs wearing executioner's hoods and robes. |
| Ina Coolbrith (pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate. |
| James Yoshimura wrote the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway", about a dying man pinned between a subway car and a train platform. |
| Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land. |
| The radio station now called KARP-FM was launched in 1968 as the FM sister station to KDUZ in Hutchinson, Minnesota. |
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