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Tautiška giesmė, a poem by Vincas Kudirka written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Varpas newspaper, became the Lithuanian national anthem. 
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| Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the officer who liberated Belsen concentration camp, once labelled rugby player John Taylor a Communist for opposing apartheid. |
| In 1998, Liverdance by Rhode Island Soft Systems was the first screensaver to incorporate built-in multiple advertisements. |
| Sir Thomas Clarke was only offered the position of Master of the Rolls after William Murray turned it down. |
| The Estonian Centre Party and Res Publica Party won 28 seats each in the 2003 Estonian parliamentary election tying for the most seats. |
| Verne Meisner and his son Steve were the first polka music artists to win the Wisconsin Area Music Industry award. |
| carrier pigeons, known as the Bavarian Pigeon Corps, were fitted with chest-mounted cameras and sent behind enemy lines for aerial reconnaissance by the Bavarian Army in the early 1900s. |
| Gumarcaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals. |
| The Holt-Bragg Bridge will be named after the family who perished when the previous bridge collapsed during the June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms. |
| The Agricultural Museum was the first agricultural periodical journal published in the United States. |
| George Chesworth was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sorties against the Chinese in the Korean War. |
| The tiny rare green Mystery Orchid, Cooktownia robertsii, was named after Cooktown and its discoverer, Lewis Roberts, and is the only member of the genus Cooktownia. |
| Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London. |
| The Neher-Elseffer House (pictured) is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary frame houses near Rhinebeck, New York. |
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