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31 July 2016
12:00, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
Kielce Ghetto liquidation
... that 14-year-old Leon Śliwiński saved the life of 12-year-old David Friedman in the Kielce Ghetto(ghetto liquidation pictured) during the
Holocaust in occupied Poland?
... that after Seleucid king
Antiochus XII was slain by the
Nabataeans during the Battle of Cana, his demoralized army fled and died from starvation in the desert?
... that Billie Ert and Antonio Molina, a drag queen and former football star, respectively, in 1972 became the first same-sex couple to be married in Texas?
... that a 1923 book by
Progressive Era activist Kate Claghorn has been called "the one significant contemporary study of the immigrant and the American legal system"?
... that African
CITES delegates sang the former Zimbabwe national anthem "Ishe Komborera Africa" after winning a vote to export African elephant ivory, while conservationists cried?
... that race car driver J. R. Heffner is his sponsor's vice president of operations?
00:00, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
Cover of the sheet music
... that in his Intermezzo Scene, In a Persian Market(cover pictured),
Albert Ketèlbey evokes exotic images of camel-drivers, jugglers, and snake-charmers?
... that Margaret Jarman Hagood, a
sociologist who wrote a book on Mothers of the South, became a mother herself before completing her bachelor's degree?
... that female red-backed buttonquails and yellow-legged buttonquails(illustrated, left) rely on their mates to incubate the eggs and raise the young, and start breeding afresh with different males?
... that while prospecting for minerals in the
Belgian Congo, Sydney Hobart Ball's party came under attack and the resulting clash, which claimed 130 lives, became known as "The Battle of Ball's Run"?
... that after being portrayed by four different wrestlers since 1999, the masked Multifacético character was finally unmasked at the 2011 El Gran Desafíoprofessional wrestling show?
... that in part of their range, male Leptodactylus podicipinus frogs have been observed to make foam nests in water-filled depressions they may have dug beside ponds?
... that the shoots and leaves of sea sandwort are rich in Vitamins A and C, and can be fermented to prepare a
sauerkraut-like preserve?
23 July 2016
14:45, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Typhoon Nepartak
... that a 205 km/h (127 mph) gust of wind in
Taitung County, Taiwan, during Typhoon Nepartak(pictured) on July 8, 2016, is the highest recorded in the county?
... that Priscilla Nzimiro was the first woman from
Igboland, Nigeria, to qualify as a medical doctor?
... that although
Montesquieu had only intended to write a few pages about the decline of the Roman Empire, he eventually produced 277 pages in 23 chapters?
... that Jane Hamilton Hall oversaw the construction of the
Clementine, the world's first
fast reactor, the first to be fueled by plutonium and the first to use a liquid metal coolant?
... that
Max Reger's three sacred motets for up to eight voices, Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, were composed in different years at different places for different choirs?
... that Elsa Reger, who had first rejected
Max Reger's courting, titled her autobiography Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger (My life with and for Max Reger)?
... that in an IWRG Ruleta de la Muerte tournament the losers advance, not the winners, and the ultimate loser is shaved bald – which happened to Chico Che in 2009, Bugambilia in 2013, and
X-Fly in November 2015?
... that the Indonesian film actor Farouk Afero shaved his head in protest at how cinemas treated domestic productions?
... that the historic I.O.O.F. Centennial Building(pictured) is a three-story commercial building with an exterior decoration of raised brickwork spelling out "Centennial 4 July 1876"?
... that on his first visit to his native
Transylvania a quarter-century after fleeing to escape imprisonment, Septimiu Albini caught pneumonia and died?
... that the George Washington Air Junction was designed to be the world's largest airport, larger than the New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, and Philadelphia airports combined?
... that at the 2012 Guerra de Familias, Silver King Jr. was not actually the son of
Silver King, despite the family theme being the focal point of the show?
... that Karen Heck, a women's rights activist and former mayor of
Waterville, Maine, co-owns a winery that is the sole distiller of
absinthe in New England?
... that Hawaiian writer Kepelino was charged with treason after a failed attempt to overthrow King
Kalākaua in favor of his opponent,
Queen Emma, in 1874?
... that six years after the siege and looting of their city by
Ibrahim Pasha, the people of
Al-Karak exacted revenge on his forces while they were withdrawing from Syria?
... that in 1899, after hiking for four days with almost no food, entrepreneur
Duncan Hines ordered $5 worth of ham and eggs(pictured) at a restaurant in
Cheyenne, Wyoming?
... that Thomas Draper, who introduced the legislation to allow women to stand for parliament in
Western Australia, became the first Australian parliamentarian to lose his seat to a woman?
... that the film Neerja is about
Neerja Bhanot, who gave her life to help save 359 of the 379 passengers and crew on board
Pan Am Flight 73 on 5 September 1986?
... that the
footballerMark Bonner was forced to retire after suffering a broken arm during a league match against
Port Vale in September 2005?
10 July 2016
13:03, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
Cendrakasih, c. 1959
... that Aminah Cendrakasih(pictured) has acted in over a hundred films?
... that after leading
Komeito to a large defeat in 2009, including losing his own seat, Akihiro Ota returned to the
National Diet in 2012 and became a cabinet minister for the first time?
... that Margaret Gowing became the
University of Oxford's first professor of the history of science, despite not having a degree in history or science?
... that though once thought to be sterile, the uterine microbiome contains at least 14
commensal microorganisms in healthy women?
... that
Tandra Paparayudu, who had rushed to the demolished Bobbili Fort to help his sister's family, killed the Raja of Vizianagaram and then committed suicide along with his accomplices?
... that 4 Walls was the first release by girl group
f(x) since member
Sulli left the group?
... that Carlos Menem(pictured), elected in 1989, was the first Argentine president to succeed a democratically elected president from another party since 1916?
... that Ein as-Sahla was established as a daughter village of
Barta'a in the 19th century?
... that according to her daughter
Ali Wentworth, Muffie Cabot, a former social secretary to
First LadyNancy Reagan, "will choose a bath over a shower, a play over a movie, and the ocean over a pool"?
... that in 1300, the Bulgarian Patriarch Joachim III was charged with treason and executed by the newly crowned Emperor
Theodore Svetoslav?
... that the 'Ain Ghazal Statues(example pictured), uncovered in
Jordan and dating to the eighth millennium BC, are considered to be among the oldest large-scale representations of the human form ever found?
... that the musical style of South Korean band Smacksoft was described as "a fantastic, densely-layered hybrid sound of
post-punk, rock and
electronica"?
... that radio station WRGG-LP uses the same format and broadcast tower as the now-defunct
WKSL, which was created by the father of one of WRGG's co-founders?
... that Mitt Romney's March 3 speech represented an unprecedented attack by a major U.S. party's most recent presidential nominee against the party's current front-runner for the nomination?
... that
Ed Brubaker and
Sean Phillips turned down offers for the film rights to their comic The Fade Out because they were afraid accepting them would affect the way the book was written?
... that the Ferrari 330 TRI/LM, the last front engined racecar to win the
24 Hours of Le Mans, was driven regularly in New York City after the end of its racing career?
... that in 1880, the sixteen-year-old composer
Richard Strauss wrote his First Symphony in just three months, whilst still at school?
... that Dutch Nazi, actor, and theater critic Adriaan van Hees became depressed when he discovered he was part Jewish, but still volunteered for the
SS—and was denied?
09:02, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
The former flag of Hong Kong
... that since its replacement on 1 July 1997, the former flag of Hong Kong(pictured) is used as a symbol of protest against perceived Chinese interference in Hong Kong?
... that fans of Overwatch have turned one of its characters, D.Va, into an internet meme, often featuring her eating Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew?
00:00, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
Sabrina Sidney aged 75
... that Sabrina Sidney(pictured) was groomed to be the perfect wife, using techniques such as pouring hot wax on her arms?
... that Mary Farrar, a victims' advocate for over 20 years, had an older brother who was shot and killed during a robbery at their family's scrap metal business?