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| Jack Hennemier, head coach of the Calgary Stampeders, was sued by the Washington Redskins for attempting to sign two of their players. |
| William Blake's poem "The Mental Traveller" went unpublished during Blake's lifetime but was translated multiple times after his death. |
| French singer Georges Guétary, who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris, was nearly three years younger than Kelly. |
| In physics, a Trojan wave packet (animation pictured) is a type of wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading. |
| Giant Daniel Cajanus appeared in pantomime on the London stage in 1734. |
| All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of the largest Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world. |
| ornithologist Robert Thomas Moore, who is credited with discovering more than 30 bird species and subspecies, also founded the 29-volume series of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards. |
| Killiniq, an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait, was formerly a part of Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island. |
| In baseball, no Gold Glove Award-winning catcher posted an errorless season until Charles Johnson and Mike Matheny accomplished the feat twice in six years. |
| Nazi German regulation of Polish forced laborers intentionally created and supported discrimination on the basis of ethnicity. |
| Homer Paine was one of several college football players that Oklahoma Sooners head coach Jim Tatum lured away from the school's rivals after World War II. |
| When the public house The Falcon (pictured) was a town house owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1643, it was the first building to enclose its portion of the Chester Rows. |
| The Battle of the Oranges is the largest organized food fight in Italy?. |
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