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Tropical Storm Bilis caused 625 deaths and $2.5 billion (2006 left|100px in damage to the Philippines, mainland China, and Taiwan, making it the most damaging storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season so far. 
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| The Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse team has won the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship five consecutive times since 2005. |
| The last train to run on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway was a special passenger service to Toronto to visit the Royal Tour of 1939. |
| The Indian Star Tortoise, Sri Lanka Junglefowl, Sri Lankan Elephant, Sri Lanka Leopard and Rusty-spotted Cat are among the endangered species of the Hurulu Forest Reserve. |
| The Helmerich Award, an annual literary award that pays US$40,000 to an "internationally acclaimed" author, is named after the actress who played "Nurse Kelly" in the 1950 film Harvey. |
| Arsenal won the 1988–89 English Football League Championship title thanks to a goal scored in the last minute of the very last game. |
| In a defined contribution plan, a type of retirement plan, the contributions to the account are guaranteed but the future benefits are not. |
| New York's Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church (pictured) secured its original building, a union church, by growing the fastest out of the several denominations that shared it. |
| Daphne Anderson has played Father William, the Walrus, and the Red Queen in various productions of Alice in Wonderland. |
| The Old Log Theater is reputedly the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota and is the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States. |
| The Virginia Tech Hokies, winners of the 1995 Sugar Bowl, were selected for the game only after sanctions were levied against the Miami Hurricanes. |
| Greg Golson stole over 100 bases in his five years as a Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer. |
| King Cnut the Great ordered the murder of Eadric Streona and Northman, the eldest son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce, in 1017. |
| The Imperial Japanese Navy I-176 (pictured) was the only Japanese submarine in the Second World War to sink one of its American counterparts. |
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