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One twin from a premature birth was declared clinically dead, came back to life after laying on his mother’s chest for two hours.
In Wales in 1950 a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter. It is the reason capital punishment is outlawed in the UK today.
There are people in Kenema, Sierra Leone, Africa that think Ebola is a hoax created by doctors to steal blood from patients. Rioters are trying to break down the hospital gates and rescue the patients inside. Police are using tear gas and live bullets to disperse the rioters.
A Chinese millionaire began selling cans of fresh air for $0.80 a can in response to China’s worsening air pollution. He made over $6 million dollars in a 10 month period.
Human poop and farts get their foul smell from the chemical compounds Skatole and Indole (among others). At low concentrations, these compounds smell flowery, and are used in perfumes. USA and Israel have used Skatole in crowd control sprays—the stench does not wash off skin for 3 days.
Victorinox the manufacturer of the Swiss Army Knife lost 40% of its business due to the 9/11 attack.
Lou Pai is a former Enron executive who cashed out $270 million in stock and left the company right before it collapsed, divorced his wife, married an exotic dancer, bought an enormous piece of Colorado, sold it and then disappeared into obscurity.
A team of developers is taking the glow in the dark enzyme that is in certain Jellyfish and Fireflies and is creating bioluminescent trees. These trees can potentially light up public streets while being energy-neutral.
A man faked his death, lived next door without his kids knowing, fled to Panama with his wife on a fake passport, tried to build a hotel using his insurance money, after a visa policy change he returned home and pretended not to remember anything; his ruse was revealed by a Google search.
787 - Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea
1893 - C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons)
1942 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1944 - Soviet army invades Hungary
1946 - UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump - An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1805 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
1865 - Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
1869 - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
1918 - Peggy Moran, actress (Double Date, Horror Island)
1946 - Gerda Lenten-Havertong, Surinam, Dutch singer/actress (Sesame St)
1980 - Jade Davidson, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1928 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies
1975 - Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
1986 - Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2007 - John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur, Crazy John's mobile phones (b. 1965)
