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In the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano, not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day. 
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| The title for Peter Benchley's best-selling 1974 novel Jaws was not agreed until 20 minutes before it went into production?. |
| Stephen Etnier, an American realist painter, commanded the United States Navy ship USS Mizpah during World War II. |
| Australian forces were deployed as a part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force and North Russia Relief Force during the Russian Civil War. |
| Entrepreneur Ralph D. Foster and his partner started Missouri radio station KGBX (now KSGF) in 1926 to advertise their Firestone Tires dealership. |
| The UNIO High School in Satu Mare, Romania, was established only to train and promote skilled workers for the UNIO Company. |
| After escaping from German forces in World War II, Peter Lewis hid in a safe house in Modena for almost two months in late 1943. |
| The Singsaker Line was the first part of the Trondheim Tramway, Norway, to be closed. |
| Mike Murphy ([[:|pictured]]) trained heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan, was the first Michigan Wolverines football coach, and has been called the "the father of American track athletics". |
| The Little Wattlebird lacks the wattles which characterise the wattlebirds. |
| in 2008, college football player Russell Wilson of North Carolina State became the first freshman quarterback to ever be named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team. |
| The MV Domala was the first ship of the British-India Steam Navigation Company that was powered by diesel engines. |
| The Indiana Rangers inspired the creation of the more famous Texas Rangers. |
| Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova regarded Osip Mandelstam's poem on Russian poetess Mariya Petrovykh as the "best love poem of the twentieth century". |
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