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| Chief Engineer Oliver P. Echols (pictured) arranged a high-level military demonstration for the Hughes H-1 Racer but Howard Hughes and the plane did not show up. |
| Orange County, California, has an unincorporated area popularly known as the Gaza Strip. |
| The systematics of snowfinches is quite straightforward, while their taxonomy was, and still is, subject to extreme confusion. |
| English actor Harry Andrews played the role of Laertes in the final production at the Lyceum Theatre before it closed in 1939. |
| In the 1986 case Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Company of Puerto Rico, the United States Supreme Court allowed Puerto Rico to ban legal casino advertising targeted at local residents. |
| Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti, who directed Antonello Grimaldi in the 2006 film Il caimano, starred in the 2008 film Caos calmo, directed by Grimaldi. |
| The Astor Home for Children (pictured) in Rhinebeck, New York, was one of the first psychiatric facilities for children accredited by the Joint Commission. |
| In the 1950s, geographer George Cressey was included on a list of suspected communists in the US at the same time that China included him on its list of capitalist enemies. |
| The Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado caused more than $400 million in damage, making it the sixth-costliest tornado in US history. |
| Sebastian Petrycy (1554–1626), in Poland, created a vernacular philosophical terminology not much later than did philosophers in France and Germany. |
| Chopin's 21 nocturnes generally feature ternary form, a melancholy melody and a broken chord bass line. |
| University of Michigan pitcher Herman Fishman set a Big Ten record in 1936 with a 0.86 ERA and was named to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Jewish All-American basketball team. |
| All Imperial German Navy light cruisers of the First World War were patterned after the German Gazelle-class light cruiser (pictured), designed in 1895–96. |
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