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No. 40 Wing RAF (DH.9 aircraft pictured) was credited with destroying the bulk of the Turkish Seventh Army during the Battle of Armageddon in 1918. 
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| Rodney Pattisson became Great Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. |
| 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays. |
| WrestleMania, an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, has involved 94 celebrities in a 24-year span. |
| the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables. |
| Hubert Shirley-Smith wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges. |
| The 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water. |
| The Old Warner Brothers Studio, where the first "talkie" was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana. |
| Patients practice preoperative fasting before an operation in order to prevent pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents. |
| Albert White was the first person to lead the Missouri Tigers men's basketball team in rebounds, points, and assists in the same season. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright said of the Millard House (pictured) that he "would rather have built this little house than St. Peter's in Rome". |
| John S. Preston was sent by South Carolina to convince Virginia to secede from the United States. |
| On July 11, 2008, the Kayelekera mine in Karonga, Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining. |
| Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage is one of few surviving historic raised cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia. |
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