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Michigan, France, and the United States have all sued for claim to the “holy grail” of Great Lakes shipwrecks, French explorer La Salle’s ship Le Griffon (pictured) that sank in 1679. 
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| cinematographer Lawrence Sher first developed an interest in photography after his father convinced him to take a 35mm camera on a Teaneck High School-sponsored trip to France. |
| The British Velocette MAC (WD) 350cc single was Velocette's first military motorcycle for World War Two. |
| Indian politician Erasmo de Sequeira rejected Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's offer to make him a Deputy Minister, stating that he wanted her post. |
| The brains of Mormyrinae (pictured), a subfamily of African freshwater fish, use 60 percent of their body's energy, three times more than humans, the animal with the next highest percentage. |
| Brett Swenson of Michigan State, one of college football's top placekickers, was passed over for the 2008 Lou Groza Award after missing three consecutive field goals against Michigan. |
| A Fine Frenzy's debut album, One Cell in the Sea, launched the group to the top of Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. |
| Galleries with Henrik Sørensen´s artwork have been raised at two of his favorite painting locations. |
| The Pokémon video game glitch MissingNo. occurs as a result of buffer data containing the player's name not being cleared. |
| Actor Frank Cellier toured in Britain, Germany, America and South Africa from 1903 to 1920, appearing only once in London, before beginning a West End career. |
| motor officers, police jargon for motorcycle officers, go through weeks of motorcycle training (pictured), where they can expect to "drop" or crash their bikes dozens, even hundreds of times. |
| A copy of Sharlot Hall's poem Arizona, which mocked efforts to merge Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory into a single state, was given to every member of the U.S. Congress. |
| In 1920 Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia. |
| While training for World War I, American athlete Brooke Brewer played for the "Usaacs", a football team composed of soldiers from the U.S. Army's ambulance service. |
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