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Achille-Louis Foville was made a professor at Charenton in 1840, filling the vacancy created by the death of his old teacher Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol. 
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| Louis Réard, who invented the bikini, chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris. |
| In the Florida Marlins' 16 seasons, they have had six different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day. |
| Bibliotheca universalis was the first modern bibliography of importance done by the "father of bibliography", Conrad Gesner. |
| Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years. |
| The Porsche PFM 3200 (pictured) was a version of the Porsche 911's air-cooled engine built for the general aviation market. |
| whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet. |
| since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach. |
| Survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island, were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck. |
| Holler House is a century-old tavern that has the oldest bowling alley in America. |
| Charles Beattie became a British Member of Parliament despite never winning an election, and lost his seat despite never being voted out. |
| Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke. |
| The spectators killed in Alex Fiorio's crash at the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally were fellow rally drivers Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver. |
| A Victim of the Mormons (ad pictured) is a 1911 Danish silent film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon films in the United States. |
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