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British Conservative MP Alan Gomme-Duncan, despite being strongly unionist, did not want the Stone of Scone returned to Westminster Abbey after Scottish nationalists stole it in 1951. 
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| Louis Timothee was the first public librarian in the United States. |
| Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools. |
| flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics. |
| The Menlo Avenue Historic District in Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman style architecture. |
| SS Empire Simba, a British cargo ship, was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II. |
| Sydney Deane, who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket, was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film. |
| The current National Palace of Mexico, despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II. |
| James W. Cannon co-wrote a paper suggesting that the "negatively curved" nature of microscopic growth patterns of bio-organisms is responsible for the highly folded structure of the brain tissue. |
| "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" became a famous description for Singapore (pictured) following the 1993 publication of William Gibson's article of the same name. |
| The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest. |
| Unlike most other Jewish communities in the Catskills, the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue were farmers rather than resort operators. |
| San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. |
| The Schlesinger Doctrine of 1974 re-introduced the idea of flexible response to U.S. nuclear warfighting policy. |
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