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Throughout the Western world until the 19th or 20th century, young boys wore dresses (example pictured) until they were breeched at an age varying between two and eight. 
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| Bob "Horse" Reynolds founded the Los Angeles Angels baseball team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame within a year. |
| F. Springer's novel Bougainville features a character who slept with Mata Hari on the boat taking them to the Dutch East Indies. |
| Founders of the National Fibromyalgia Association first met through the internet. |
| When confronted by a rebellion and an invasion, King Valagamba promised the rebel leader the throne and sent him against the invading army. |
| The possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales (pictured), a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria. |
| Patsy's Pizzeria first served up its coal oven pizza pies in 1933 and vies with Rao's to be the "best bite" in New York's Spanish Harlem. |
| The Superior multimineral shale oil extraction process was developed to combine the production of shale oil with that of sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, and aluminum. |
| sprint athlete and British 200 metres champion Toby Sandeman did a photoshoot for Vogue with Naomi Campbell. |
| The Gurgaon Metro will be India's first privately owned and operated metro. |
| Jane H. Smith is not only the first woman state legislator from Bossier Parish in Louisiana, but she is the first woman to have been a high-school principal and school superintendent there as well. |
| An East German defector hijacked a Polish plane in 1978 to escape to West Germany. |
| The Spadena House, a storybook house also known as The Witch's House, was originally built as offices and dressing rooms for a movie studio. |
| A comet over Africa saw the birth of a small country (map pictured) on July 26, 1882. |
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