The ‘G’ on the Green Bay Packer’s helmets stands for “greatness,” not Green Bay.
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The ‘G’ on the Green Bay Packer’s helmets stands for “greatness,” not Green Bay.
Programmers missed one bug in the Boeing 777 autopilot. Passengers on Flight 124 survived the roller coaster ride.
Dogs have ‘Eureka moments‘ and enjoy the experience of solving a problem in order to obtain a reward.
There is a species of pig called “Mangalitsa” which has wool on it which resembles that of a sheep.
Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, two Swedish twin sisters, had a “shared psychosis” and ran into oncoming traffic on a highway while on holiday in the UK.
1523 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1927 - 4th German government of Marx forms
1929 - Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA
1966 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1993 - Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1995 - Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
1950 - Ann Jillian, Cambridge Massachusetts, actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1968 - Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
1968 - Edward Burns, Queens, New York, American actor, director, writer (Brothers McMullen, Saving Private Ryan)
1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at 86
1966 - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84
1973 - Johannes Paul Thilman, composer, dies at 67
1976 - Michael Gwynn, actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas, Cleopatra), dies at 59
1992 - Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76
1994 - Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67