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The Hare Indian dog, now extinct, was not known to bark, but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe. 
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| At the age of 74, Robert Sterling Yard (pictured) became a founding member and the first president of The Wilderness Society. |
| The Shrine of Hazrat Ali, said to be the burial place of Ali, also gave the city of Mazari Sharif its name. |
| The East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being insolent towards the khagan of the Avars. |
| Less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor. |
| Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at Newgate Prison. |
| The banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display. |
| Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk. |
| Because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is associated with a mortality rate of 25–45%. |
| The El Greco Apartments (pictured), once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy. |
| The first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, was a book of prose sketches inspired by Washington Irving. |
| The Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997. |
| Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three years later. |
| A memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C.. |
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