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John Considine, pioneering American vaudeville impresario, once shot and killed a former chief of police of Seattle who had come gunning for him. 
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| The Space Shuttle mission STS-8 flew Guy Bluford (pictured), the first African-American astronaut. |
| Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven. |
| Bridgecorp Holdings, a former Australian real estate development group, collapsed in 2007 owing 14,500 investors a total of A$467 million. |
| A Vision of the Last Judgment is a painting by William Blake that disappeared after an exhibition was cancelled in 1810. |
| A colony of sex offenders forced to live under a highway bridge in Miami, Florida, numbered approximately 140 members as of July 2009. |
| The document known as the Remonstrances was presented in 1297, as England was on the brink of civil war. |
| The Chicago Tribune claimed that hundreds of applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2005 and 2009 had received "special consideration". |
| As a variable-pitch turbofan aircraft engine, the Turbomeca Astafan could generate reverse thrust in midair without the use of a thrust reverser. |
| Kwakwaka'wakw art includes a wide variety of wooden masks (example pictured), some of which can transform into different figures. |
| The fruit of the pondberry, an endangered wetland shrub, was used by children in the rural Southern United States as ammunition in toy pop guns made from hollowed-out elderberry stems. |
| Czech composer Jan Rychlík played the drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach. |
| Meridian Baptist Seminary was the first school in Mississippi to offer high school diplomas to African-American students. |
| An inscription from Korba, Tunisia, records the town's fortification by Pompeian generals during the Roman civil war. |
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