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Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986. 
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| At least 10 members of the Sadeler family were active as engravers between 1572 and 1675. |
| Footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored a 12-minute hat-trick after coming on as a substitute. |
| State Senator Coleman Lindsey became lieutenant governor of Louisiana, when Earl Long succeeded Governor Richard W. Leche. |
| The octagonal Roof-top synagogue (cupola pictured) in Hove, England, was built as a replica of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. |
| The idiom kick the bucket probably comes from a method of suicide in the middle ages. |
| Lionel Pincus, who ran Warburg Pincus from 1966 to 2002, has donated more than $5,000,000 to the New York Public Library, including an endowment for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. |
| The 1850 Squatters' Riot in Sacramento, California, effectively ended land speculation in the region. |
| Sidonia von Borcke, executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction. |
| Before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982, the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981. |
| The tutor of Peter the Great, Nikita Zotov, became the "Prince-Pope" of The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters. |
| One theory suggests that the unique Chester Rows (pictured) were constructed in the medieval era on top of debris from the ruins of Roman buildings. |
| At the 1929 Rose Bowl, Benny Lom stopped Cal teammate Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels who had run 60 yards in the wrong direction and was about to score a safety, in a game Cal lost 8–7 to Georgia Tech. |
| The abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film. |
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