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| A parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga". |
| Les Whitt, director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo. |
| Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969. |
| Rich Schroeppel, the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher, offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher. |
| Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world. |
| Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened. |
| Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater. |
| The village of Rezovo (pictured) on the Bulgarian Black Sea is the most southeastern point of the European Union mainland. |
| The Detroit Tigers gave the Williamsport Tigers not only their name, but also grandstand seats taken from Briggs Field in Detroit for their minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. |
| The name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg. |
| In Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause. |
| Hong Kong has the second highest life expectancy in the world. |
| The French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant. |
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