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Irish playwright George Farquhar (pictured) originally planned on an acting career, but gave it up after accidentally wounding a fellow actor severely on stage with a sword. 
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| In 1941, the tower at St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick, West Sussex (pictured) was wrecked by an unexploded bomb which was found embedded in the churchyard two years later. |
| Sir William Cheyne has been described as one of the most obscure Chief Justices of the King's Bench in the late medieval period. |
| The clubhouse of the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club was originally the home of its first Commodore, James Chadwick. |
| During June 1976 protests in Poland, the biggest demonstrations took place in Radom, where workers burned the local office of the Polish Communist party. |
| "Calexico Kid" Primo Villanueva led UCLA to the NCAA football championship in 1954 and was inducted into the British Columbia Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2009. |
| T.H.E. Fox, drawn on a C64 KoalaPad and published on CompuServe, Q-Link and GEnie, is among the earliest online comics. |
| Kjell Fjalsett, Arnold Børud, Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft, called the first Christian supergroup in Norway. |
| After a massive expansion program in the 1980s, Lavalin's corporate bankers forced it to merge with the rival SNC Group, forming one of the largest civil engineering firms in the world. |
| Between 1909 and 1912, soprano Margarethe Siems (pictured) sang leading roles in the world premieres of three operas by Richard Strauss—Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos. |
| Canadian professional wrestler Billy Two Rivers decided to move to the United Kingdom because of a coin toss. |
| Agaricus albolutescens, unlike other species of Agaricus, turns tawny-brown rather than yellow when bruised. |
| Snorri Thorfinnsson, son of explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir, is said to be the first European born in North America. |
| During the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942, the heavily defended Taukkyan Roadblock was unexpectedly abandoned overnight, allowing the Allied forces to escape safely from Rangoon. |
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