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| Actor Don Collier, who co-starred on NBC's western series Outlaws and The High Chaparral, played football for the Brigham Young Cougars. |
| The critically endangered Golden White-eye (pictured) of Saipan is threatened by a snake that eliminated practically all the forest birds of nearby Guam. |
| Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp. |
| In 1899, Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico was prohibited by the United States Chinese Exclusion Act. |
| Remnants of the pre-Columbian aqueduct carrying water from springs at Chapultepec can still be found in Mexico City today. |
| The small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note. |
| As Director of the Voice of America, Henry Loomis oversaw the introduction of Special English, in which news is read slowly with a limited vocabulary of about 1,500 words and a simplified grammar. |
| The metabolic disorder Schindler disease may be caused by mutations in the NAGA gene on chromosome 22. |
| Football player Michael Liddle made his international debut for Republic of Ireland under-19s although he was born in London, England. |
| Suraj Tal (pictured), the highest lake in India, may be reached by National Highway NH-21, the highest mountain road in the world. |
| nephrotoxic djenkolic acid, found in the raw djenkol bean, can form needle-like crystals in the urine of people who eat the bean. |
| American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press. |
| the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania. |
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