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| Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. |
| The killers of Aladi Aruna, former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were sentenced to death. |
| The Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley, who died of myelodysplastic syndrome, and Geraldine Ferraro, who has multiple myeloma. |
| Spanish poet and librettist Federico Romero (pictured) was originally a mining engineer. |
| Max Manus referred to the release of Norwegian resistance member Kolbein Lauring from Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German authorities. |
| Some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City, with Friday as the most popular day. |
| Dutch children's writer Paul Biegel wrote comics for Marten Toonder before publishing his first novel. |
| Several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration. |
| George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence. |
| The house where Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten, was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944. |
| Medical doctor A.C. Steckle (pictured) gained fame coaching the University of Nevada, a school with only 80 students, to a victory over the University of California football team. |
| American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?. |
| The New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired covers nearly ninety percent of its operating expenses with income from lands held in trust for it by the State Land Office. |
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