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| The funeral of C. N. Annadurai ([[:|pictured]]), who held the post of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for just two years, was the most attended until that time making it a Guinness record. |
| Polish writer Franciszek Karpiński is best remembered through his hymns and carols. |
| William Kaufmann developed the counterforce approach in the 1950s, in which a Soviet invasion of Western Europe would be met by a sequence of escalating responses, not by massive retaliation. |
| After serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, George Henry Chapman served as a judge in the Indiana Criminal Court, and later a state legislator in the Indiana Senate. |
| The Irish TV show Hanging with Hector was criticised for being "about as original as washing your teeth each morning". |
| Nolan Reimold led the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in home runs (20), runs batted in (60), total bases (137), on-base % (.496), and slugging % (.770) throughout the baseball regular season. |
| The Marine Corps Test Unit along with the 3rd Marine Corps Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade carried out mock maneuvers 3,500 yards away from the detonation site of a nuclear bomb. |
| When the Wildwood was commissioned she was named USS PC-1181, and was only renamed the Wildwood after she was decommissioned. |
| The Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1920 prevented the Polish–Georgian alliance from being fully implemented. |
| The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in the First World War ([[:|pictured]]) took 14,000 casualties out of a strength of 60,000 men. |
| Alliance for Labor Action launched a $4 million organizing drive targeting African American workers in Atlanta, Georgia, in the fall of 1969?. |
| It took 59 years and a legal battle through the High Court of Australia for the Warumungu, a group of Indigenous Australians, to regain their land claim. |
| The 1921 Oscar Micheaux-directed race film The Gunsaulus Mystery was inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan. |
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