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| Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention. |
| Greek singer Paschalis Terzis's most recent album Mia Nihta Zoriki was certified gold the day it was released. |
| In 1979, ColorGraphics Weather Systems pioneered the use of color computer graphics in television weather forecasts, using the Apple II computer. |
| British motorcycle pioneer Eugene Goodman joined his family's business, Velocette motorcycles, only after his car-making business failed in 1916. |
| The 1948 Oscar Micheaux-directed film The Betrayal was the first race film to have its premiere in a Broadway theatre in New York City. |
| S. A. K. Durga is the first Asian to have written a book on ethnomusicology. |
| The Australian plague locust can form swarms infesting areas up to 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi). |
| The Romanesque St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in Detroit, Michigan, serves a parish that was established to minister to Belgian immigrants to the city. |
| The California Avocado Commission is responsible for 90 percent of the United States' harvest of avocado?. |
| Maurice Garin, nicknamed "The Little Chimney-sweep", won the first-ever Tour de France in 1903. |
| when a person explosively jumps up from a squat position, stabilization through preflex happens with zero time delay. |
| The Jewish Theological Seminary of America produced the NBC radio and TV program The Eternal Light commercial-free for 45 years, with the show's producer saying "God needs no sponsor". |
| The Nāradasmṛti Indian literature is the only Dharmaśāstra text to not cover areas such as righteous conduct and penance. |
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