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| Gilbert Patten, the author of the Frank Merriwell dime novels, managed a semi-professional baseball team in Camden, Maine during the 1890-1891 season. |
| Lualhati Bautista’s Tagalog novel, Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? became a film starring Vilma Santos, an actress turned first female governor of Batangas of the Philippines. |
| At age 23, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (pictured) was the youngest Danish politician ever to participate in a nationally televised debate for party leaders. |
| Palwankar Vithal became the first Dalit cricketer to captain the Hindus team in the Bombay Quadrangular cricket competition, a milestone in the Hindu society's struggle against caste discrimination. |
| Besides being the first president of the International Luge Federation, Bert Isatitsch was also a special education teacher. |
| William Whitaker introduced orange groves to Florida. |
| Despite the recorded influence of American Sign Language, Filipino Sign Language has a history that can be traced from the works of European missionaries in the Philippines as early as the 1600s. |
| Rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter set off a race riot in 1935 in Harlem, New York. |
| Agnolo Bronzino's 1542 painting of Bia de' Medici was painted from the girl's death mask. |
| Former Anglican clergyman and Liberal Party life peer Tim Beaumont was the only Green Party representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1999 until his death in 2008. |
| Although Tropical Storm Arthur (1996) made landfall in North Carolina, total damage amounted to only $1 million dollars (1996 USD). |
| Abraham Esau was the head of the physics section of the Reich Research Council, Nazi Germany's centralized planning institution for almost all basic and applied research. |
| Pei Guangting, a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, traced his ancestry to officials serving several dynasties, including the Han Dynasty. |
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