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| British poisoner Frederick Seddon made a secret Masonic signal to his trial judge, prominent Freemason Thomas Townsend Bucknill, in an attempt to overturn the jury's guilty verdict. |
| Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's CORONA satellite. |
| Harmon Northrop Morse was awarded the Avogadro Medal in 1916 for his extensive report on osmotic pressure and semipermeable membranes ([[:|concept pictured]]). |
| Andrew Ritchie named his Brompton folding bicycle company after the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. |
| radio stations WMFC and WMFC-FM originally broadcast from a Quonset hut in the heart of Monroeville, Alabama. |
| Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway's first television correspondent stationed in an African country. |
| The effects of Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica proved among the most severe in the island's history. |
| American writer Howard Norman stated there was a shorter distance between his unconscious life and his conscious life in Nova Scotia than anywhere else. |
| Malay monarchs lost their legal immunity after a series of amendments was made to the Constitution of Malaysia in 1993. |
| Johann Phillip Fabricius, a German Christian missionary, completed the first translation of the Bible to Tamil. |
| The Streamline Moderne building ([[:|pictured]]) of the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library is a former Dodge automobile dealership. |
| Fred Shaw Mayer was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for breeding Birds of Paradise. |
| The remnants of 2005's Tropical Depression Ten partially contributed to the formation of Hurricane Katrina. |
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