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Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat-captain who saved of over 500 men, woman and children from drowning at sea. 
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| George "Crybaby" Cannon got his nickname from being able to wipe sweat from his face to make it appear as though he was crying. |
| Eliza Flower was a 19th-century English musician and composer with whom a young Robert Browning fell in love. |
| Morrissey was billed as the headliner of Saturday Night Fiber 2008, even though he was not the final act to play. |
| After becoming the first basketball player to lead the Big Ten in both scoring and rebounds, Michigan's M.C. Burton turned down a contract to play in the NBA to attend medical school. |
| The King Mojo Club in Sheffield, run by Peter Stringfellow, hosted the Small Faces' first gig outside London. |
| Edward Schalon, inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor as a golfer, later became the president of a Fortune 500 company, SPX Corporation. |
| Matt Smith, who will portray the Eleventh Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is the youngest person to be cast in the title role. |
| The Norfolk, Connecticut-based performing arts venue Infinity Hall was built in 1883 as a combination opera house, barber shop and saloon. |
| Norwegian ski jumper Daniel Forfang (pictured) retired due to body weight pressure in the sport, whose rules were earlier considered to fit Forfang "perfectly". |
| college football wide receiver Torrey Smith of the Maryland Terrapins set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for single-season kick return yards, including a 99-yard return in a bowl game. |
| Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has 185 footnotes, which contain a meticulous false history of English magic and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship. |
| William Glendon argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court that the Nixon Administration could not use prior restraint to prevent printing of the Pentagon Papers. |
| Anssi Koivuranta is leading the 2008-09 Nordic Combined World Cup right now. |
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