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A mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005. 
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| National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co-class president, salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school. |
| The Cuban People's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours. |
| Many of the world's pelagic fish species are threatened with extinction, including the devil fish. |
| 21-year-old professional poker player Sami Kelopuro experiences daily swings of up to one million dollars when playing online poker. |
| In Bishop Lloyd's House, Chester, Cheshire, is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion. |
| Rocketdyne's E-1 rocket engine never saw production, but gave NASA confidence to develop the F-1 that powered the Saturn V to the Moon. |
| A papyrus containing the Loyalist Teaching scripture (pictured), dated to the second half of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, survives to this day. |
| John Ruskin's "wretched rant" influenced architects, artists and ecclesiologists. |
| Morgan Henry Chrysler was one of only four men who rose from private to major general during the American Civil War. |
| Due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party, no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas, Cuba. |
| The first Hof's Hut was opened in Belmont Shore by Harold Hofman on September 16, 1951, the same day that his son was born. |
| The Central Economic Intelligence Bureau serves as the secretariat of the Economic Intelligence Council of India. |
| Astronomer William Herschel was the first organist at the Octagon Chapel in Bath. |
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