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Typhoon Conson of the 2004 Pacific typhoon season was the first of the record ten typhoons to impact Japan that season. 
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| Surviving examples of early Byzantine mosaics (example pictured) can still be found at Mount Nebo, where Moses died, and Tell Mar Elias, the birthplace of Elijah. |
| The Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia's strategic environment. |
| The National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York, suggesting the first one be expanded instead. |
| The 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India. |
| Major General William P. T. Hill, Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain. |
| The Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers. |
| The series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural-sized works. |
| The 1948 Headingley Test, in which Don Bradman's cricket team the Invincibles (pictured) made a world record run-chase, remains the most attended Test on English soil. |
| The West Wing episode "Ways and Means" was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling, two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House. |
| Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics. |
| Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana. |
| El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore". |
| The Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall". |
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