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31 January 2019

00:00, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Funeral procession of Winston Churchill

... that Operation Hope Not was the codename for planning Winston Churchill's funeral (procession pictured), the largest state funeral in British history?
... that a clinic in Mopti, Mali, is named after Werner Bardenhewer, born 90 years ago today, who was for decades priest of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and then founded a charity group?
... that astronaut Buzz Aldrin discovered the Aldrin cycler, a means of repeatedly traveling between Earth and Mars?
... that the Qarmatian movement began when Hamdan Qarmat denounced the claims of Abdallah, the future founder of the Fatimid Caliphate, to be the Islamic Messiah?
... that in a music video for Belgian singer Loïc Nottet's "Rhythm Inside", several people are portrayed as being taken to a warehouse, for what some viewers believed was human experimentation?
... that Dave Pickerell was known as the "Johnny Appleseed" of craft distilling?
... that video game magazine GameStar called Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne the best add-on in PC gaming history?
... that physician Fulke Rose treated the privateer Henry Morgan with millipede powder and oil of scorpion?

30 January 2019

00:00, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

The Duke of Windsor inspecting German troops in 1937

... that during the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany (pictured), their alcoholic chaperone Robert Ley crashed them at speed through a factory gate?
... that catwalk model Michelle Leslie claimed police in Bali, Indonesia, planted two ecstasy tablets in her handbag and then asked for a US$25,000 bribe to avoid conviction?
... that the jellyfish Sanderia malayensis has a life cycle that includes a number of different types of asexual reproduction?
... that Meghan Trainor canceled several dates on the MTrain Tour after suffering a vocal cord hemorrhage?
... that rivalries encourage people to take more risks and behave less ethically?
... that the BBC head of drama stated that the Slater family in EastEnders was created to address a deficit of "solid families" in the soap?
... that actress Naomi Watts is honorary president of the Welsh football club Glantraeth F.C.?
... that the 18th-century Chinese short story "Three Lives" was adapted into a 2016 play featuring hip hop and a live band?

29 January 2019

00:00, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Macleay's glassfish

... that Macleay's glassfish (pictured) is partly transparent?
... that the historian Thomas Henry Dyer described the Convention of Alessandria as "one of the most disgraceful capitulations in history"?
... that in 1720, wealthy merchant-adventurer Sir David Hechstetter directed that his body be buried without any "pompous ostentation"?
... that after the Philo Power Plant was demolished, the rotors from turbine six were utilized in a sculpture created by George Greenamyer?
... that in the fourth quarter of 2017, Transsion Holdings had the largest market share for sales of smartphones in Africa, overtaking Samsung?
... that Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen referred to Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin as his "Lafayette"?
... that the 1991 music video for the Sesame Street song "Monster in the Mirror" featured 25 celebrities, including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and The Simpsons characters?
... that a Japanese spy helped compose the Indonesian declaration of independence?

28 January 2019

00:00, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Man Mohan Singh

... that in 1930, Man Mohan Singh (pictured) flew his Gipsy Moth Miss India solo from Croydon Airport, South London, to PAF Base Faisal, Karachi?
... that when a reviewer labelled his song "Don't Miss It" as "sad boy" music, James Blake called the term "unhealthy and problematic"?
... that at age 17, the English actress Emily Lloyd reportedly beat over 5,000 others, including Jodie Foster, for the lead role in the 1989 film Cookie?
... that the video game This Is Football 2002 had the controversial feature of allowing players to deliberately dive?
... that the space climate discipline researches how solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations can affect Earth over timescales ranging from a few weeks to more than 1,000 years?
... that although Giorgio Mitrovich respected and admired the British, he criticised the British colonial administration of Malta for its lack of freedom of the press?
... that the Royal Air Force's AMES Type 85 radar was considered obsolete by the time it became operational?
... that 13 was a lucky number for American movie theater magnate Harry E. Huffman?

27 January 2019

00:00, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Marble bust of Epicurus

... that the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (bust pictured) taught that the only reliable way to learn about the world is through empirical observation?
... that the superhero form of the fictional character Marinette Dupain-Cheng was based on a woman wearing a ladybug-themed T-shirt who once worked with the creator of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir?
... that Denver community activist Arlene Hirschfeld lives in Shangri-La?
... that the International Encyclopedia of Women Composers was written partially in response to a comment by Thomas Beecham who said, "There are no women composers, never have been and possibly never will be"?
... that James A. Doonan purchased the cannons in front of Healy Hall, which date to 1634?
... that inflating balloons into lung arteries may be considered for people with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who are not suitable for surgery?
... that Marianne Schech appeared as the Dyer's Wife in the U.S. premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the San Francisco Opera?
... that HMS Sportsman sank twelve Axis ships during World War II?

26 January 2019

00:00, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

F. W. Bernstein

... that the poet, cartoonist, and satirist F. W. Bernstein (pictured) was appointed professor of caricature and comics in Berlin in 1984, the only such chair in the world at the time?
... that tropical cyclones may have induced past climate changes and could still be causing El Ni��o type events today?
... that Simon Kaloa Kaʻai, a former jailer, became a noble and cabinet minister to a king?
... that an 1832 auction of the contents of Cullands Grove included three hundred and seventy cases of wine, two Shetland ponies, a fire engine, and two "humane" man traps?
... that David Gwynne-James represented the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in cricket, rugby, hockey, squash, skiing, and athletics?
... that the 2005 pop-rock/dance album Rollercoaster, by former American Idol finalist Jim Verraros, was inspired by the music of George Michael and Green Day?
... that Zhuo-Hua Pan, credited by some as the inventor of optogenetics, had his paper describing the technique rejected by multiple journals?
... that the Russian youth movement Lion Versus opposes public smoking by spraying smokers' hands with water to douse their cigarettes?

25 January 2019

00:00, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

19th-century design for the Rondebosch Fountain

... that Rondebosch Fountain (pictured), a cast-iron water trough and one of the first electric street lights in South Africa, is being rebuilt in aluminium after a speeding car demolished the original?
... that in 1701, the apothecary William Rose was charged with illegally practising medicine on a butcher?
... that Slovakia was the only country that paid for the deportation of its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust?
... that in his first battle, Prince Binnya Kyan and his brothers drove back the forces of Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa of Ava after being called "useless" by their father, King Razadarit of Pegu?
... that Jennifer Lawrence was so anxious about performing "The Hanging Tree" in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 that she wanted to lip sync to a professional singer?
... that in 1901, French feminist writer Marie-Louise Gagneur was awarded the Legion of Honour?
... that two U.S. agents were nearly killed by a drug cartel in Mexico in 1999?
... that Johannes Brahms attended the premiere of the operetta Die Göttin der Vernunft by Johann Strauss, but the composer himself did not, and heard about its reception only by telephone?

24 January 2019

00:00, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

151 North Franklin

... that in 2018, 151 North Franklin (pictured) became the new corporate headquarters for CNA Insurance, which continues to be based in the Chicago Loop as it has been since 1900?
... that Vastupala secretly hired pirates to rob the mother of the Sultan of Delhi?
... that the littleneck clam is harvested for food despite being associated with paralytic shellfish poisoning?
... that Alex Macmillan did not know his 1954 mathematical correction had become a widely used formula known as the "Macmillan Correction" until he read about it while surfing the web in 2004?
... that Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (Fall with thanks, fall with praise), Part IV of Bach's Christmas Oratorio for New Year's Day 1735, commemorates the naming of Jesus?
... that Jean-Pierre Bernès, former general manager of Olympique de Marseille, started out selling membership cards for the club?
... that students of sculptor Herbert Maryon tarred and feathered one of his works?
... that the Federal Court of Australia ruled in 2003 that a heroin dealer was entitled to a tax deduction of $220,000 for money stolen during a drug deal?

23 January 2019

00:00, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

James L. Collins Jr.

... that Lieutenant Colonel James Lawton Collins Jr. (pictured) was wounded when his battalion was accidentally hit by American bombers during Operation Cobra?
... that allyl glycidyl ether can be converted to three different types of polymers by changing the polymerization conditions?
... that Beyoncé wore an Inbal Dror wedding gown to the 2016 Grammy Awards?
... that after capturing the French town of Caen in 1346, an English army massacred the population and engaged in an orgy of rape?
... that American Lawrence Cowan regained possession of a copper mine in Sonora, Mexico from local claim jumpers through the Supreme Court of Mexico?
... that the Bodega black gnat was first discovered in Egypt but named for a bay in California?
... that Percy Glading, British communist and Soviet spy, was described by the head of MI5 as looking "like an overgrown schoolboy" but also "quick-witted and likeable"?
... that Bob Dylan refused to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show after the CBS network tried to censor the lyrics to "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"?

22 January 2019

00:00, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Minchington Hall

... that Minchington Hall (pictured) in Middlesex, England, was said to have one window for every week of the year?
... that Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld introduced Breslov Hasidism to the United States?
... that "The Bird Language", a short story by Pu Songling, may have been written to antagonise corrupt officials?
... that Swedish logging sportsman Ferry Svan accidentally severed a tendon in his leg with an axe only weeks before the 2018 Timbersports Champions Trophy, but still competed and set a national record?
... that Home and Away character Dean Thompson was described in 2018 as the serial's "new favourite bad boy"?
... that Peter McAdams received a promotion to sergeant for carrying his wounded comrade 250 yards (230 m) while under fire during the Battle of Salem Church?
... that the northern chink shell has two types of teeth, changing slowly from one to the other as its diet varies?
... that small-town Utah doctor John Steele used herbal medicines to treat patients, and also cast their horoscopes?

21 January 2019

00:00, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Lucy Branham in her prison uniform

... that American suffragists arrested for protesting at the White House later toured the country on the Prison Special while dressed in their prison uniforms (Lucy Branham pictured)?
... that on 20 January 1990, Sakina Aliyeva signed the first declaration of independence by a part of the Soviet Union, and announced it on Nakhichevan television?
... that the bite of the red-bellied black snake can result in necrosis, and has been known to require amputation of an affected finger?
... that Andrew Traynor received a Medal of Honor after escaping from Confederate guerrillas?
... that at the Battle of Blanchetaque, English longbowmen stood in a tidal river to engage French mercenary crossbowmen?
... that the surgeon Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird invented a dilator for use in tracheotomies?
... that Román Chalbaud's 1977 film El Pez que Fuma was inspired by stories from prostitutes at a brothel he used to frequent?
... that Gwen Grant Mellon, who co-founded a hospital for the poor in Haiti, was buried in a cardboard box?

20 January 2019

00:00, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Diademed amazon

... that the diademed amazon (pictured) is considered an endangered species because the forests in Brazil in which it lives are being felled for soybean production and cattle ranching?
... that music publisher Henri Hinrichsen, owner of C. F. Peters in Leipzig, promoted composers such as Gustav Mahler, Max Reger, and Arnold Schoenberg?
... that Sir Harry Luke called the Turkish Military Cemetery and the adjacent Jewish Cemetery in Marsa, Malta, "the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together"?
... that as part of social emotional development, there is a sevenfold increase in most children's emotional vocabularies between ages 4 and 11?
... that British Army officer Ogilvie Graham met his wife during the Battle of the Somme?
... that Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in Euchre and other historical games such as Reunion and Kontraspiel?
... that when HMS Safari attacked barges at Ras Ali, Libya, the torpedo passed underneath, damaging a mole and killing five men?
... that after discovering that the itch mite was the cause of scabies, Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo had a hard time finding a job?

19 January 2019

00:00, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Marc Bloch

... that Marc Bloch (pictured), one of the most influential historians of the 20th century, was also a French Resistance fighter and was executed by the Gestapo in 1944?
... that the white wagtail is the national bird of Latvia?
... that selfish genetic elements are genes that can invade a population even though they are harmful to the individuals carrying them?
... that in 1947, state representative Rose M. Poole was part of a Republican majority in the Oregon House of Representatives that outnumbered Democrats 58 to 2?
... that the surrender of Valjala Stronghold in 1227 finalized the Crusader conquest of Estonia?
... that in her second novel, Echoes, Maeve Binchy underscores the paucity of educational opportunities in small Irish towns before the introduction of free secondary education in 1967?
... that Alexis Hartmann developed a new technique for testing blood sugar levels while he was still a medical student?
... that Australian rules footballer Will Schofield played on in a match despite a compound dislocation of his finger?

18 January 2019

00:00, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Bedřich Fritta's caricature of the Theresienstadt Ghetto

... that the Nazi authorities promoted Theresienstadt Ghetto (caricature shown) as a "spa town" and "retirement settlement" for Jews?
... that American suffragist Annie Nowlin Savery came into conflict with some woman suffragists because she supported free love?
... that Chief Justice Murray Gleeson suggested that public confidence in the independence of Australian judges largely consists of taking things for granted?
... that 79 pages of Robin Coste Lewis's anthology Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems are devoted to the titular poem, which consists of "titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions" depicting the black female form in Western art?
... that "Varsity", the University of Michigan fight song, was written in 1911 by two Michigan students while they were riding a street car in Detroit?
... that the journalist Johann Georg Reißmüller, a co-publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is credited with playing an important part in Germany's recognition of Croatia and Slovenia?
... that the production of the film El Caracazo required a military security presence for the filming of scenes of riot and massacre in the centre of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas?
... that the man who named a nearly blind amphibian Dermophis donaldtrumpi did so to raise awareness of Donald Trump's policies on climate change?

17 January 2019

00:00, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Baker Hotel

... that even though the Baker Hotel (pictured) was nearly fully booked during the filming of the 1969 musical film Paint Your Wagon, it closed shortly thereafter?
... that the first-class cricketer and British Army racquets champion Henry Bond received honours from the British and Romanian governments for his service during the First World War?
... that wounds on the abdomen of the wolf spider Geolycosa pikei begin to heal immediately?
... that Israeli scholar Esther Farbstein and a colleague discovered more than 100 personal Holocaust accounts in rabbinical works, a resource previously overlooked by Holocaust researchers?
... that the Ugandan military indiscriminately bombarded rebel fighters, civilians, and even their own forces during the Battle of Tororo?
... that actor Tim Franklin had his first on-screen kiss while portraying Home and Away character Colby Thorne?
... that historian Julius S. Scott did not agree with his publisher's suggested revisions to The Common Wind, so the book remained unpublished for over thirty years?
... that Victor Bonney stained vaginas blue?

16 January 2019

00:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Esther before Ahasuerus

... that after various changes to Tintoretto's Esther before Ahasuerus (shown) from the 1540s onwards, the painting now has two figures of Haman?
... that the pup of a little brown bat can weigh nearly a third as much as its mother at birth?
... that the Old West figurine sculptor Earl Heikka's first studio was on Gary Cooper's ranch?
... that after journalist Victor Mallet chaired a talk by Chan Ho-tin, leader of the now-banned Hong Kong National Party, he was denied renewal of his Hong Kong work permit?
... that the 18th-century Rami Barracks was temporarily used by food wholesalers before its current planned redevelopment to create Turkey's biggest library?
... that black voting rights activist Herbert Lee was killed in 1961 by Mississippi state representative E. H. Hurst?
... that a volunteer medical unit was raised in Ireland for service with the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War?
... that before Richard Ellis became a photographer, he was a tightrope walker in a travelling circus?

15 January 2019

00:00, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Sposobny in 1982

... that the Soviet destroyer Sposobny (pictured) was designed to survive a nuclear explosion?
... that Portugal international footballer Melissa Antunes teaches at a university and started a sports agency?
... that some forms of ginbuna carp asexually reproduce via gynogenesis, in which the male sperm contributes no genetic material but is still required for egg development?
... that the biologist Denis G. Lillie drew cartoons of his colleagues on the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition?
... that after 250 laps, second place at the 2001 Harrah's 500, a CART race, was determined by a photo finish in which Dario Franchitti beat Michel Jourdain Jr. by 2 inches (51 mm)?
... that in 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman elected as a non-hereditary head of government in modern history?
... that the founder of Bieling Architekten mainly designed churches, while his two sons now focus on commercial projects?
... that before becoming a United States Marine Corps mascot, Jiggs II won a blue ribbon at the 1926 Westminster Dog Show?

14 January 2019

00:00, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Sully

... that U.S. President George H. W. Bush's service dog Sully (pictured) slept next to Bush's coffin before his state funeral?
... that the Swiss-German spy Carmen Mory, later a Nazi concentration camp kapo, was described as a "third-rate Mata Hari"?
... that the katydid Capnobotes fuliginosus shows its dark hindwings when startled?
... that merchant John Leamy owned the first U.S. ship to enter the Río de la Plata?
... that Marvel Comics' chief creative officer Joe Quesada made his directorial debut with the first episode of the digital series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot?
... that the biochemist Wilfrid Butt was among the first to extract follicle-stimulating hormone from cadavers rather than from urine?
... that in 1346, an English army plundered its way across south-west France for 350 miles (560 km) without meeting effective resistance?
... that according to primatologists Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, successful baboons use rules like those in Jane Austen novels: "be nice to your relatives and get in with the high-ranking relatives"?

13 January 2019

00:00, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Raymond Arritt

... that after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author Raymond Arritt (pictured) said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now"?
... that HMS London, a London-class battleship, was fitted with a makeshift ramp for experiments with naval aircraft?
... that a popular account of the Indian rope trick by Chicago Tribune journalist John Wilkie may have been inspired by the Chinese short story "Growing Pears"?
... that the final work of artist Monica Ross was completed on the day of her death?
... that Al-Ain Football Club was the first Emirati team to qualify for the final of the FIFA Club World Cup?
... that Jewish community leader Tibor Kováč negotiated with and bribed a former classmate who was organizing the deportation of Jews from Slovakia during the Holocaust?
... that social connectedness may be as important to our well-being as food or water?
... that the Shepherd with a Flute has had his shirt changed, and is now attributed to Titian rather than Giorgione?

12 January 2019

00:00, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

U.S. Zouave Cadets

... that The New York Times stated that, with one exception, the United States Zouave Cadets (pictured) were "all young men of extraordinary muscular power"?
... that voice actress Yukari Anzai was appointed as a Japanese ambassador for the hot springs of Hsinchu County in Taiwan?
... that Max Reger composed Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue, Op. 127, for Karl Straube, to be played as the first organ piece at the new Centennial Hall in Breslau in 1913?
... that Thomas F. Mulledy sold the slaves owned by the Maryland province of the Jesuits in 1838 in order to pay off its debt?
... that although Indian cassava mosaic virus does indeed infect cassava crops in India, the actual origin of the virus is unknown?
... that a scientific paper by Thomas Wilkinson King about the thyroid gland fell into obscurity for nearly a century before being discussed by Sir Humphry Rolleston in a lecture in 1933?
... that the Monrovia Church massacre was the worst single atrocity of the Liberian civil war?
... that the writer of the play Why We Have a Body was inspired by Harriet the Spy, whom she viewed as the first lesbian she had ever encountered?

11 January 2019

00:00, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

The Sunset Parade

... that in 2018 the United States Marine Corps' Sunset Parade (pictured) was moved from the Marine Corps War Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial?
... that among the books produced by Georgian publisher James Stratford was one of 149 parts?
... that screenwriter and actress Vivian Schilling was inspired to write Soultaker by a car accident in which she had been involved?
... that the first-class cricketer Jack Gannon was mentioned in dispatches twice in both the Anglo-Afghan War of 1919 and the Second World War?
... that the French submarine Argonaute was designed with a diesel engine but was built with steam and electric motors instead?
... that Georgetown University School of Medicine was founded during the presidency of James A. Ryder?
... that a documentary about the British band Coldplay sold more than 300,000 tickets for a single-night cinematic release, but was not viewed by the band's lead singer?
... that Nagammai organised women to picket the toddy shops in Erode during the temperance movement in India?

10 January 2019

00:00, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Design by Edward Gyfford

... that Edward Gyfford's buildings (1807 design pictured) were "calculated for the comfort and convenience of persons of moderate and of ample fortune"?
... that President Jozef Tiso argued in a 1942 speech that Slovakia's complicity in the Holocaust was consistent with Christian morality?
... that Cornell University professor Walter LaFeber gave his farewell lecture on American diplomatic history before nearly 3,000 people at New York's Beacon Theatre?
... that the beech orchid was first scientifically described in The Sydney Morning Herald?
... that Melani Leimena Suharli, the daughter of the founder of the Indonesian Christian Party, is Muslim?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed hearing oral arguments in Gamble v. United States due to a national day of mourning proclaimed following the death of George H. W. Bush?
... that photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo was described by Alfonso Michel as Mexico's most important painter?
... that the Buddhist eight precepts allow lay people to lead a life similar to a monk for a day?

9 January 2019

00:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Macrozamia riedlei pollen cones

... that Macrozamia riedlei (pictured), a favoured food plant of southwest Australians, was responsible for the accidental poisoning of some early European explorers?
... that Jim Siwy was a police officer before and after his career in Major League Baseball?
... that Yum Balam Flora and Fauna Protection Area, which provides a habitat for jaguars, is named for a Maya jaguar god of nature?
... that William Gould Young was the first faculty member at UCLA to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the university's chemistry building was renamed in his honor?
... that one of the poems in How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes was described as having "echoes of the cultural critique of race relations in America" in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man?
... that the whitespot ghost shark is known from only four specimens in the Galápagos Islands?
... that suspected hitwoman Joselyn Alejandra Niño had a nickname which referred to Our Lady of Holy Death?
... that Denmark won the 1971 Women's World Cup, an unofficial association football tournament, after 15-year-old Susanne Augustesen scored all three goals in the final?

8 January 2019

00:00, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Jane Britton

... that the red ochre sprinkled on the body of Jane Britton (pictured) 50 years ago today ultimately turned out to be a red herring in solving her murder?
... that with the launch of PSLV-C42 the Indian Space Research Organisation has launched a total of 239 foreign satellites for 28 different countries?
... that in 1933 Green Bay Packers president Lee Joannes personally loaned the organization $6,000 to keep it in operation?
... that in 1960 Emil Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be studied electrochemically, contradicting previous assumptions that DNA molecules were too large to have electrochemical properties?
... that regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits are mostly low grade, but economic to mine?
... that Second World War Jewish resistance fighter Sonia Orbuch was originally named Sarah, but was renamed to sound more Russian?
... that actor Tom Hanks has claimed that the Hermes 3000 would be the luxury item he would take to a desert island?

7 January 2019

00:00, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

The Magi visiting Jesus

... that the Epiphany hymn "Earth Has Many a Noble City" about the biblical Magi (pictured) was originally written by a Roman governor?
... that Joseph Jenckes Jr., the founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was arrested and jailed for making threatening remarks about the king of England?
... that organic nuclear reactors, widely researched in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids?
... that Björn Ambrosiani spent six years excavating at the Viking Age settlement Birka?
... that Peter Cornelius wrote poems and music for his song cycle Weihnachtslieder, which included a popular melody in the piano accompaniment for a song about the Three Kings?
... that in November 2018, Matthew Hedges received a pardon from his life sentence for spying in the United Arab Emirates?
... that Shekhar: Ek Jivani by Agyeya is considered the first psychoanalytical novel in Hindi literature?
... that in 2007, Peter Morris was "discovered" by Peter Morris?

6 January 2019

00:00, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Katia and Thomas Mann

... that Thomas Mann's widow, Katia, (couple pictured) called Gert Westphal "des Dichters oberster Mund" (the poet's principal voice) after his reading of her husband's works?
... that Chinese writer Pu Songling may have written an anti-Manchu short story?
... that Trinidadian football player and coach Michael McComie died from a brain tumour 24 hours after being diagnosed?
... that the Patagonian squid spawns among the stems of partially defoliated kelp Lessonia trabeculata?
... that the Country Hospital in Shanghai provided free treatment to Jewish refugees during World War II?
... that food writer Melissa Clark elicited disapproving tweets from President Barack Obama and former governor Jeb Bush for her recipe for guacamole with green peas?

5 January 2019

00:00, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Simeon Monument

... that, upon completion of the Simeon Monument (pictured), a local resident complained that "among the generality of the inhabitants it is called a p****** post"?
... that Howard J. Green's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937?
... that Falcon 9 booster B1050 malfunctioned during re-entry and missed its landing target at LZ-1, but still managed a soft landing just offshore?
... that Roberto Tobar officiated the 2017 Segunda División final, in which only one team took part in the penalty shootout?
... that the Loch Maree Hotel poisoning of 1922 was the first recorded outbreak of botulism in the United Kingdom?
... that while Bernard A. Maguire was a prefect at Georgetown University, a student uprising resulted in the dismissal of 70 students?
... that the 1931 accident triangle theory proposed a link between the number of minor accidents and those that led to serious injury?
... that Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term "outlaw country" by using it to describe the music of performers such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings?

4 January 2019

00:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Greta Thunberg

... that 16-year-old Greta Thunberg (pictured) of Sweden has inspired 20,000 students around the world to strike for climate change activism?
... that the continental arc tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks can be plutonic?
... that Jim Derrington is the youngest player to record a base hit in American League history?
... that the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice, where Johann Adolph Hasse was maestro di cappella, was founded as a hospice for sufferers from syphilis and other incurable diseases of the time?
... that Andrew L. Lewis flew more than 100 combat missions as a naval aviator before becoming commander of the United States Second Fleet?
... that "Dui Bigha Jomi", a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore, inspired a story which was the basis for the 1953 Hindi film Do Bigha Zamin?
... that Dimyati Natakusumah is set to compete against two of his children in the 2019 Indonesian general election?
... that the money from the sale of Russell Crowe's jockstrap allowed the Australia Zoo to establish a koala chlamydia ward?

3 January 2019

00:00, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Male orange-breasted bunting

... that an attempt to introduce the orange-breasted bunting (pictured) to Oahu in 1941 was unsuccessful?
... that David Long Jr. set the West Virginia Mountaineers football record for single-game tackles for a loss?
... that Guêpe-class submarines were solely intended for use in harbor defense?
... that Chief Minister Zeik-Bye of Hanthawaddy persuaded Prince Binnya Nwe to revolt by saying that his mother Princess Maha Dewi was planning to put her lover on the throne?
... that, in the 1980s, the British physician John R. Seale advocated the now-discredited theory that HIV might have been created in a germ warfare laboratory?
... that the namesake of the Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr Award served for just one day as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army?
... that during the filming of There She Goes, a programme based on series creator Shaun Pye's learning-disabled daughter, he became so emotional that he had to leave the set?
... that Scharwenzel is a card game, at least three centuries old, that is played today only on the German island of Fehmarn?

2 January 2019

00:00, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Christmas Oratorio at the Unionskirche

... that Carsten Koch conducted all Beethoven symphonies at the historic Unionskirche, and shared Bach's Christmas Oratorio there in an ecumenical project (performance pictured)?
... that al-Barakah, a self-declared administrative district of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was moved about 200 kilometres (120 miles) south during its existence?
... that Alphonsus J. Donlon became known as the "father of Georgetown athletics" for overseeing multiple victorious teams?
... that when creating the television drama Butterfly, the playwright Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children transition in order to be "trendy"?
... that Wilmer Clemont Fields of the Southern Baptist Convention was a defender of freedom of the press?
... that the underwater mountain and former atoll Darwin Guyot is named after Charles Darwin?
... that Gujarati writer Geeta Parikh has written more than 900 poems?
... that in the Battle of the Hatpins, women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets?

1 January 2019

00:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

The Death of General Montgomery

... that American John Trumbull's The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 (pictured) was painted in the London studio of Benjamin West?
... that among the babies born at the Parsi Lying-in Hospital was the Indian politician Feroze Gandhi?
... that Wolfgang Unger was director of music at the University of Leipzig, where he founded two instrumental ensembles named after the original Paulinerkirche?
... that the Romanian destroyers Mărăști and Mărășești both changed owners three times and were renamed four times during their careers?
... that the 1923 World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna unanimously resolved to support the settlement of Jews in Palestine?
... that the year before he first played in baseball's National Association, Marty Swandell umpired the game that decided the league's championship?
... that A Summer in a Sea Shell was the first Slovenian coming-of-age film to have popular music and dancing?
... that Peng Shilu, the "father of China's nuclear submarines", was jailed at age eight?