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Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the only one to have held the office for two terms. 
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| John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket. |
| The Lublin Ghetto was one of the first German-created ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed. |
| Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin. |
| 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. |
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