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31 August 2019

 * 12:00, 31 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the historic wooden Kruszyniany Mosque (pictured) was targeted in 2014 during a wave of attacks on mosques in Poland?
 * ... that in 1999, Pam Coats was promoted to senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Animation Studios, becoming the highest-ranking woman at the company?
 * ... that Neanderthals in the Valencian Valldigna valley hauled young elephants up a 100 m climb to the Bolomor Cave, for use as food?
 * ... that Claude Batchelor, a former trumpet player with the 1st Cavalry Division Band, was convicted on charges related to collaboration with China during the Korean War?
 * ... that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill introduced in 2019 by the Indian parliament has been met with protests and criticism by the queer community?
 * ... that Scottish economist Hugh Quigley was a member of the secret XYZ Club in the 1930s?
 * ... that forests in the Guineo-Congolian region of Africa include patches dominated by a single species of tree, such as Brachystegia laurentii, Julbernardia seretii, Michelsonia microphylla, or Gilbertiodendron dewevrei?
 * ... that the BBC has produced a new version of their 1953 film London to Brighton in Four Minutes every 30 years?


 * 00:00, 31 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that one royal christening gown (pictured in 1903) was worn by 62 British royal babies over its 163-year history?
 * ... that African-American educator Jennie Porter refused to let teachers at her all-black school join the NAACP after its local leaders criticized her views on segregation?
 * ... that Wayne and Shuster's comedy sketch "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" recasts Shakespeare's Julius Caesar as a detective story?
 * ... that when an angry mob overran the palaces in Granada in 1309, the sultan was spared, but his vizier, Abu Abdallah ibn al-Hakim, was killed?
 * ... that the blue korhaan favours habitats with short grass, dwarf shrubs, and termite mounds, but few trees?
 * ... that Barbara Zechmeister, who appeared in world premieres at the Oper Frankfurt, portrayed Clarissa in a recorded production of Weber's Die drei Pintos at the 2004 Wexford Festival?
 * ... that the National Salt Satyagraha Memorial honors the participants of the Salt Satyagraha, a nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930?
 * ... that Nicholas Emery tried to negotiate the sale of Maine's northern territory to the American government for one million acres (4,000 km2) of the Michigan Territory?

30 August 2019

 * 12:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the wildlife of Uganda includes the Ugandan kob (pictured), the Uganda mangabey, and the Ugandan musk shrew?
 * ... that Misty Talley, who directed shark horror films for Syfy, edits about five feature film projects at a time?
 * ... that a railroad bisects the Italian town of Miramare di Rimini into a residential neighborhood and a prominent tourist area?
 * ... that shortly after the arrest of the leaders of the Indonesian National Party, Sartono disbanded it and founded the Indonesia Party?
 * ... that during change of command ceremonies of the United States Marine Band, the John Philip Sousa Baton is transferred from the outgoing to the incoming director?
 * ... that the CISF Unit Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is the largest Central Industrial Security Force unit?
 * ... that Allen F. Donovan worked for the Manhattan Project on the design of the shape of the Fat Man atomic bomb?
 * ... that there will be a women's Twenty20 cricket tournament for the first time at the 2022 Commonwealth Games?


 * 00:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Swarup Rani Nehru (pictured) appealed to women to make salt in defiance of the salt laws in British India?
 * ... that MDR Rundfunkchor, the radio choir of the MDR in Leipzig, performed Dvořák's Stabat Mater in the opening concert of the 2019 Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey?
 * ... that Jīvaka, a child left behind on a trash heap, later became the physician of the Buddha?
 * ... that the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become the United States Mint's first color coinage?
 * ... that when Zhai Xiangjun teaching career was interrupted by dental surgery, he began writing English textbooks, two of which have since been adopted by most Chinese universities?
 * ... that Pollichia campestris was first described in 1789 by the Scottish botanist William Aiton in the publication Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of all the plants then being cultivated at Kew Gardens?
 * ... that Thomas M. Owen founded the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the first such agency in the U.S. to become a distinct department of a state government?
 * ... that in 1355, the English marched 675 mi through French territory and took so much booty that they discarded silver objects to be better able to carry off gold and jewellery?

29 August 2019

 * 12:00, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that because of their pristine, rugged nature, the Carp Hills (pictured) in western Ottawa, Canada, are called an "ecological jewel"?
 * ... that Johannes Fatio performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins in 1689?
 * ... that The Debut was Jackie Evancho's eighth consecutive release on the Billboard Classical Albums chart to reach number one?
 * ... that former Mexican police chief Zeferino Peña Cuéllar may have escaped through a secret tunnel during an attack by a drug cartel?
 * ... that storm surge and abnormally high tides generated by the 1875 Indianola hurricane in Texas swept boats as far as 9 mi inland?
 * ... that Fang Renqiu was a member of the first national football team of the People's Republic of China and later coached the national team?
 * ... that an exhibit of Czech Jewish art and ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis for a planned "Museum of the Extinct Race" was seen by more than half a million people on its U.S. tour?
 * ... that in 1968, Mark E. Silverman and John Willis Hurst used what they described as a "Sherlock Holmesian approach" to show that the condition of the heart might be found in clues in the hands?


 * 00:00, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the 1920s–1930s interior design style Curzon Street Baroque (example pictured) was also known as Buggers' Baroque?
 * ... that the Ross Volunteers are the military escort for the Governor of Texas?
 * ... that Wang Qidong served as the first chair of the first university department of materials science and engineering in China?
 * ... that the Redoute in Bad Godesberg, which opened in 1792 when Beethoven played in the orchestra, was used for receptions of the President of Germany?
 * ... that Algernon Burnaby won the Quorn Hunt's Midnight Steeplechase in 1890?
 * ... that some critics prefaced their reviews of SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest with assurances that it was not as buggy as the main game?
 * ... that William R. Crawford Jr. was appointed as U.S. ambassador to Cyprus after Rodger Davies, his predecessor, was assassinated?
 * ... that peregrine falcons live at the top of New York City's Throgs Neck Bridge?

28 August 2019

 * 12:00, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that teenage CEO Alina Morse (pictured) sugar-free candy company had US$6 million in sales when she was thirteen years old?
 * ... that the Argus tortoise beetle is named after the mythical Greek giant Argus Panoptes?
 * ... that Turkish television and film actress Serenay Aktaş was once a women's footballer?
 * ... that department store chain Kastner & Öhler, based in Graz, began as a shop for mercery in 1873, and was the first in Central Europe to introduce fixed prices and run a mail order service?
 * ... that Thomas Perkins Abernethy dissertation The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815–1828 earned him a doctorate from Harvard University and was published in book form?
 * ... that Japanese literature of the 12th through 16th centuries ceased to be the reserve of the aristocracy and became "national literature"?
 * ... that in 1946, entomologists E. B. Pinniger and Cynthia Longfield were the first to identify the dainty damselfly in Britain?
 * ... that Iggy Azalea joked with Peppa Pig on Twitter over My First Album release date?


 * 00:00, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Coxton Tower (illustration shown), despite having been uninhabited since the 1860s, was used to house Canadian troops stationed in Scotland during the Second World War?
 * ... that Hai-Quan Mao was elected an AIMBE fellow for engineering nanomaterials for regenerative medicine and drug delivery?
 * ... that the finalists in tonight's U.S. Open Cup Final both joined Major League Soccer as expansion teams during the 2017 season?
 * ... that archaeologist Paul Pascon was a Pied-Noir whose devotion to the situation of Moroccan peasants led him to take Moroccan citizenship?
 * ... that Ryan Ashley Malarkey is the only woman to win Ink Master in its first eleven seasons?
 * ... that the African hut tampan can transmit relapsing fever in humans and African swine fever in pigs?
 * ... that Jill Martin was the only actor to appear in all three West End runs of the musical My Fair Lady?
 * ... that Chicago's WCLM radio was investigated for leasing an audio channel without permission to a service that broadcast horse racing results to bookies, later losing its license over other violations?

27 August 2019

 * 12:00, 27 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that in 1905, Scottish photographer Robert M. Adam (pictured) was among the last to photograph Mingulay island before it was abandoned?
 * ... that in the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron, the Byzantines in the flanks defeated their Seljuk opponents, but on the next morning learned of their Georgian allies' defeat in the centre?
 * ... that Cynthia Whitchurch discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating a paradigm shift in the study of biofilms?
 * ... that there has been a boom in LGBT+ cinema produced in Latin America, in contrast to its traditionally religious and machismo culture?
 * ... that historian Charles Henry Ambler earned his PhD using the first eight chapters of his book, Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861, for his dissertation?
 * ... that despite its reported disappearance from Britain and other European countries, the fountain spleenwort is still considered to have a stable population trend?
 * ... that Slovak ice hockey referee Juraj Okoličány translated the international ice hockey rules into his native language?
 * ... that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?


 * 00:00, 27 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the earliest-known paintings on fabric in China (example pictured) were artifacts of the Changsha Kingdom?
 * ... that Hans-Georg Münzberg continued to work on the development of the Snecma Atar engine in France despite being a professor at the Technical University of Berlin?
 * ... that a $100-million donation to the Central Park Conservancy in 2012 was the largest ever to New York City's park system at the time?
 * ... that Agnes Twiston Hughes was the first woman in Wales to qualify as a solicitor?
 * ... that critics called the comedy adventure video game The Haunted Island "suitably goofy" and "pretty gosh darn rad"?
 * ... that when Jessie Grayson played Mrs. Higbee in Cass Timberlane, it was the first time an African-American had been addressed on screen by the honorific "Mrs."?
 * ... that U.S. endocrinologist Lewis E. Braverman found the reason for a Midwestern outbreak of hyperthyroidism was contaminated ground beef?
 * ... that Charles X of France donated a painting of the incredulity of St Thomas by François Dubois to St Thomas's Church in the small Scottish town of Keith, Moray?
 * ... that before Gryan Miers was even drafted to an Australian Football League club, Fox Sports labelled him one of the competition's "next big cult heroes"?

26 August 2019

 * 12:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the bush cricket Ruspolia nitidula (pictured) is commonly eaten in Uganda, where the price per unit weight is periodically higher than that of beef?
 * ... that Dorothy Olsen was one of only twelve American women certified for night flight in World War II?
 * ... that Ethiopian Jews protesting police brutality in Israel used a slogan from the Black Lives Matter movement?
 * ... that Donald Dean Jackson, known for his editing of the George Washington papers, originally felt he did not have the proper background and hesitated to act in that capacity?
 * ... that the opera Behold the Sun by Alexander Goehr, about the Anabaptists in Münster, was premiered in an abridged version in German, but the BBC aired it in full in English?
 * ... that Yuri Korolev led the Soviet Union national ice hockey team's research group for 28 years while the team won 17 Ice Hockey World Championships and 7 Winter Olympic Games gold medals?
 * ... that the Louisville Sinking Fund Building went from being slated for demolition to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in six years?
 * ... that R. K. Wilson, the surgeon behind the hoax "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, was later awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Order of Orange-Nassau?


 * 00:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Donald Trump's official musical adviser is Jason Fettig (pictured)?
 * ... that when Egon Schiele's painting Dämmernde Stadt was auctioned for US$24.6million in 2018, the descendants of two former owners shared the proceeds?
 * ... that a young woman who went missing in a Rosemont, Illinois, hotel was later found dead inside a walk-in freezer?
 * ... that the rock parrot often nests in the old burrows of seabirds?
 * ... that in 1968, students at Columbia University protested against their college's proposed construction of a gym at Morningside Park?
 * ... that Chinese legal scholar Su Huiyu regarded capital punishment as "irrational" and supported its eventual abolition?
 * ... that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits features such as resource accumulation and technology research in order to focus on the core mechanic of building placement?
 * ... that in 2001, Ben Kimondiu became the first pacesetter to win the Chicago Marathon?

25 August 2019

 * 12:00, 25 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Garçon Wines produces a wine bottle (pictured) designed to fit through a letter box?
 * ... that Hermin Esser performed 14 tenor roles at the Bayreuth Festival dedicated exclusively to stageworks by Richard Wagner, beginning in 1966 as Froh and ending in 1981 as Tristan?
 * ... that voice actress Yuki Nakashima is a public relations officer for Japan's Wakayama Prefecture?
 * ... that the Scottish surgeon David Wallace was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George for his work in the Boer War and knighted for his work in World War I?
 * ... that the Maple River State Game Area contains the only known inland salt marsh in the state of Michigan?
 * ... that Sophie Luff, who captained the boys' cricket team whilst at school, was named the "most promising young female cricketer" of 2015?
 * ... that the different types of combined hormonal contraception include a pill, a patch, an injection, and a vaginal ring?
 * ... that Betty Cantor-Jackson recorded over 1000 tapes of the Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Band, and Old & In the Way, but lost them when she could not pay the storage fees?


 * 00:00, 25 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the Qutb Minar complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi, houses the tomb (pictured) of one of Muhammad's descendants?
 * ... that every Saturday for decades, Miriam Butterworth protested against wars such as those in Nicaragua, Iran, and Iraq, as well as in opposition to nuclear arms?
 * ... that the swamp musk shrew scrambles around among aquatic vegetation in the dark?
 * ... that Alejandro Finocchiaro, Argentina's current Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, produced the 2008 documentary Mujeres de la Shoá ('Women of the Holocaust')?
 * ... that the story of the legendary Christian saints Barlaam and Josaphat is based on the Great Renunciation of the Buddha?
 * ... that footballer Craig Bellamy was the first player to score for seven different teams in the Premier League?
 * ... that West Palm Beach, Florida, was the site of the 2000 U.S. presidential election recount, which led to the Bush v. Gore decision giving Florida's 25 electoral votes toGeorge W. Bush?
 * ... that after pyrimethamine was price-hiked by 5000 percent, Sydney University chemists Matthew H. Todd and Alice Motion supported the high school students who showed it could be synthesised cheaply?

24 August 2019

 * 12:00, 24 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that unlike The 1975's previous eponymous songs, all of which use the same set of lyrics, their fourth eponymous song is a spoken-word protest about climate change by Greta Thunberg (pictured)?
 * ... that Zhuo Renxi developed the anti-fog coating for Mao Zedong's crystal coffin that is displayed in his mausoleum?
 * ... that strips of bark from the West African copal are used to make beehives, while the flowers are attractive to bees?
 * ... that John Shearer was the second African-American staff photographer at Life and a neighbor of the first, Gordon Parks?
 * ... that the original article describing Berlekamp's root finding algorithm did not contain a proof of correctness?
 * ... that Will Dismukes, a 29-year-old member of the Alabama House of Representatives, is also an ordained minister and former baseball player, and suffered a massive stroke at the age of 22?
 * ... that a match at the 2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship was temporarily halted due to a fire alarm, but both players opted to play on?
 * ... that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory?


 * 00:00, 24 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the cannonball (pictured) and white-flowered black mangroves are among the ten species of mangrove listed as occurring in Mozambique?
 * ... that although Spitzeln was also called German l'Hombre, it had little more in common with the most successful card game ever invented than the fact that it was played by three players?
 * ... that after a friend told Toni Sharpless 10 years ago today that she was too drunk to drive, Sharpless ordered her out of the car and has not been seen since?
 * ... that the surveillance radar at the Kürecik Radar Station in southeastern Turkey provides NATO missile defense in Europe?
 * ... that Kris Knoblauch accumulated 298 wins over seven years as a head coach in the Canadian junior ice hockey leagues before becoming head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack?
 * ... that the executive producer of Women of '69, Unboxed was a member of the 1969 all-woman graduating class of Skidmore College, on which the film focuses?
 * ... that Olivier Latry, organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, played a concert at St. Martin in Lorch am Rhein in 2019?
 * ... that some German child-rearing theorists of the 1970s tied Nazism and the Holocaust to authoritarian, sadistic personalities produced by punitive toilet training techniques?
 * ... that British author Harold Clunn saw the destruction done by the Blitz as a blessing in disguise?

23 August 2019

 * 12:00, 23 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that during the 1960s and 1970s, Project Rover tested nuclear-powered rocket engines (example pictured) at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at Jackass Flats?
 * ... that Jörg Breiding, only the second leader of the Knabenchor Hannover in its 69-year history, conducted the choir and the Canadian Brass quintet in folk song arrangements in 2019?
 * ... that Edward Riegelmann was opposed to having the Coney Island Boardwalk named after him?
 * ... that Rathindranath Tagore, the first vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, initially became involved with the school at the urging of his Nobel Prize-winning father?
 * ... that Mark Hamill had his first regular voice-acting job on the 1973 television series Jeannie?
 * ... that after their beloved Canadian leader, Captain Dyer, died, his Slavo-British unit took to carrying a massive portrait of him and would later murder all of the unit's other officers?
 * ... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars?
 * ... that toxic vacuolation, the presence of vacuoles inside certain types of white blood cells, can be a sign of sepsis?
 * ... that when Virginia suffragist Anna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election in Richmond, she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote?


 * 00:00, 23 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Leonard Fryer designs included a stamp for the Falkland Islands featuring Gentoo penguins (pictured)?
 * ... that in 1994, the principal of Alabama's Randolph County High School threatened to cancel the prom if interracial couples planned to attend?
 * ... that according to legal theorist Jiang Shigong, China has two constitutions?
 * ... that New York City's 407 acre Shirley Chisholm State Park, named after the first black Congresswoman in the U.S., was created on a landfill?
 * ... that Gujarati writer Manilal Dwivedi was invited to present a paper at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, but was unable to attend due to financial constraints?
 * ... that the toxic bark of a Madagascan tree species has been used as a poison in trials by ordeal?
 * ... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorer Samuel van der Putte ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
 * ... that the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton moved to Ohio from Bethesda, Maryland, in part because their building was about to be lost to termites?

22 August 2019

 * 12:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Yvette Lévy (pictured) has returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp more than 200 times with students, to teach them about her experience at the camp where she survived the Holocaust?
 * ... that when the Three Marias published New Portuguese Letters as a direct challenge to Portuguese censors, they were arrested and the book was banned, leading to international protests?
 * ... that during the 1960s, Harold Finger was in charge of the development of NASA's nuclear rocket and nuclear power systems, including generators left on the Moon by Apollo missions?
 * ... that there are no longer any chimpanzees in Marahoué National Park?
 * ... that footballer Rachel Rowe made her international debut for Wales while still working as a guard in the prison service?
 * ... that the structure of nanoparticle cancer drugs affects their function in such complex ways that nanoinformatics approaches are useful?
 * ... that among the musical roles performed by Anke Sieloff at the Musiktheater im Revier are Maria in West Side Story, and a witch in the first German production of The Witches of Eastwick?
 * ... that 50,000 years ago a Neanderthal defecated on an old campfire in El Salt, Spain, and proved the Neanderthal diet also included plants?


 * 00:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that indigenous people in the Ecuadorian highlands sometimes mark special occasions with a pampa mesa (pictured), a communal meal eaten from a cloth spread on the ground?
 * ... that Helen Appo Cook, an African-American activist, publicly admonished Susan B. Anthony in 1898 for failing to support universal suffrage?
 * ... that "Let Nature Sing", a single consisting of nothing but unedited bird song, reached number one on the UK Singles Sales Chart?
 * ... that a prize for contemporary art of Styria is named after Viktor Fogarassy, the managing director of a department store?
 * ... that Manresa Island in Connecticut was used by the Jesuits as a retreat center before being developed as an electrical power plant?
 * ... that Japanese voice actress Kanon Takao won an international piano competition when she was ten years old?
 * ... that it is not known whether larvae of Deretaphrus beetles spin their cocoons from their mouths or anal glands?
 * ... that Australian rules footballer Callum Wilkie, who had been overlooked in four previous national drafts, was working as an accountant when he was selected by St Kilda?

21 August 2019

 * 12:00, 21 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Konstantinos Smolenskis (pictured), a future general and hero of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, was expelled from the Greek military academy by his own father for unruly behaviour?
 * ... that the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was moved to the United States after the SARS outbreak in China, the original host?
 * ... that Quaker abolitionist David Cooper anonymously authored 1783 tract condemning slavery was distributed to the New Jersey State Assembly, the Confederation Congress, and George Washington?
 * ... that the Cozzi porcelain factory of Venice had a stock of 118,000 pieces by 1784, mostly old and out of fashion?
 * ... that Polish philosopher and World War II resistance member Jan Gralewski likely died in the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
 * ... that despite their names, the greater Egyptian gerbil and the lesser Egyptian gerbil are found across much of North Africa?
 * ... that the sentence of 241 years given to Bobby Bostic was the longest term of imprisonment ever handed down in Missouri to a juvenile for non-homicide offenses?
 * ... that Wayne and Shuster poked fun at Canada's Stratford Festival with a skit about a baseball game where the manager, players, and umpires all speak in Shakespearean verse?


 * 00:00, 21 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that after the 1924 abolition of the Caliphate (illustration shown), numerous leaders vied unsuccessfully to resurrect the title of caliph for themselves?
 * ... that James J. Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to serve as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?
 * ... that Flat Rock Speedway opening was delayed by a week after a raccoon drowned in its drainage system and rain led to track flooding?
 * ... that new Austrian Finance Minister Eduard Müller began his career as a tax inspector?
 * ... that in 1919 a race riot broke out in Norfolk, Virginia, during a homecoming celebration for African-American veterans of World War I?
 * ... that the Italian Nicholas Laucella became principal flute of the New York Philharmonic in 1909 when Gustav Mahler was chief conductor?
 * ... that the lesser seedcracker enjoys rice and the large, hard seeds of carrycillo?
 * ... that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship?

20 August 2019

 * 12:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Kristine M. Larson (pictured) and her research team were the first to demonstrate that GPS could be used to detect seismic waves?
 * ... that "The U.S. Air Force Blue" started as an advertising jingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
 * ... that the 6th-century Lakhmid ruler Amr ibn Hind was killed by the poet Amr ibn Kulthum after Hind's mother had insulted Kulthum's mother?
 * ... that in Cameroon, edible caterpillars are cultivated on dwarf red ironwood leaves?
 * ... that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it?
 * ... that Knut Nystedt wrote Immortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's "Komm, süßer Tod" simultaneously in different tempi, meeting on the last word meaning peace?
 * ... that Perla Farías has created telenovelas, such as Juana la virgen and La Reina del Sur, which avoid classic stereotypes?
 * ... that Churchill's Port was not bottled until 1982?


 * 00:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that deforestation in Brazil could be linked to higher rates of the severe fungal infection caused by P. lutzii (pictured), a neglected tropical disease?
 * ... that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi?
 * ... that "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" was one of the first mainstream television episodes to feature Kwanzaa?
 * ... that the pianist Erik Werba, professor at the Wiener Musikakademie for four decades, is known as an accompanist of lieder singers?
 * ... that the Namib brush-tailed gerbil uses ultrasonic whistles and foot drumming to communicate?
 * ... that Hubert William Lewis was awarded the Victoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
 * ... that Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses GPS to track its vehicles transporting ammonium nitrate, as the chemical has been used by Naxalites to create the explosive ANFO?
 * ... that Chinese political scientist Wang Shaoguang views Western representative democracy as a failure?

19 August 2019

 * 12:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival featured streetcars from cities in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, England, Germany, and Italy (pictured)?
 * ... that manhua artist Xia Da April Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
 * ... that by approving selinexor, the FDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
 * ... that after John R. Allan died, seven complete or partly-finished unpublished novels were found in his effects?
 * ... that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification?
 * ... that footage of Ann Peterson diving was the first 1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired by ABC in the eastern United States?
 * ... that antelope grass can recover quickly after wildfires even in the middle of the dry season?
 * ... that pilot Walter Anderson and observer John Mitchell were hit by communist fire but landed, rescued two pilots, and took off with Mitchell on the wing and his fingers plugging their leaking tank?


 * 00:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the classic French card game of Nain Jaune is named after the seven of diamonds, which is depicted as a yellow dwarf on the game board (pictured)?
 * ... that sumo wrestler Enhō Akira is 50 kg lighter, and 15 cm shorter, than most of his top division opponents?
 * ... that U.S. Border Patrol agents reported that some migrant detainees at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2019 were housed in standing-room conditions for days or weeks?
 * ... that Arudji Kartawinata left the Masyumi Party and reformed the Indonesian Islamic Union Party in exchange for a cabinet post?
 * ... that the Sorana bean is grown in such small quantities and is in such demand that it commands prices six to ten times higher than those of other cannellini beans?
 * ... that in 1954, George Ian Scott became the first professor of ophthalmology in Edinburgh?
 * ... that the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is known as ortiguilla in southern Spain, where it is a popular seafood?
 * ... that Turkish race walker Meryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered?

18 August 2019

 * 12:00, 18 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Christopher Nolan (pictured) wrote and directed a no-budget film titled Doodlebug as a student at University College London?
 * ... that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
 * ... that the large leaves of Marantochloa purpurea are used for wrapping cola nuts to prevent them from becoming desiccated?
 * ... that after William Tarrant was sacked from the civil service of British Hong Kong, he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
 * ... that according to the U.S. Supreme Court, Medicare payment levels count as "substantive legal standards"?
 * ... that the baritone Ernst Gerold Schramm was the voice of Christ for Karl Richter in Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion?
 * ... that in 1982, Brooks Resources, originally a subsidiary of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, donated 135 acre to help Donald Kerr establish the High Desert Museum near Bend, Oregon?
 * ... that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?


 * 00:00, 18 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that sagu (pictured) is a southern Brazilian dessert made with tapioca balls that are extracted from cassava, not from sago palms?
 * ... that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon?
 * ... that woollen fabrics have been produced at the Knockando Woolmill since the 18th century?
 * ... that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett, was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade?
 * ... that the crimson seedcracker has two morphs, large-billed and small-billed, but this trait is not related to sex, age, body size, or location?
 * ... that John Soothill gave "boy in the bubble syndrome" its formal name, severe combined immunodeficiency?
 * ... that New York City's Eastern Parkway, built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
 * ... that John Talbot White last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?

17 August 2019

 * 12:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the densely-populated territory of Macau is home to a recently discovered, endemic species of freshwater crab of the genus Nanhaipotamon (pictured)?
 * ... that in 2017, Australian rules footballer Tom Atkins laid 23 tackles in a Victorian Football League match, equalling the competition record?
 * ... that New Jersey high school radio station WHPH, itself shared between two schools, had to share time with another high school radio station?
 * ... that Arswendo Atmowiloto wrote around 20 books while imprisoned?
 * ... that, following the 1925 London County Council election, the Labour Party became the official opposition on the council for the first time?
 * ... that Terry Dempsey songs reached number one in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and his native South Africa?
 * ... that the captain of the SS Grampian intentionally rammed an iceberg head-on so as to avoid the Titanic fate?
 * ... that chef Asma Khan husband is not a fan of her food?


 * 00:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Clyde Foster (pictured), a mathematician with NASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a computer science program at historically black Alabama A&M University?
 * ... that Queens at Heart, which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film?
 * ... that Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of rickets in Glasgow?
 * ... that the actors from the television drama Jamie Johnson competed at the Gothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
 * ... that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election?
 * ... that the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution incorporates Russia's first eternal flame?
 * ... that Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary?
 * ... that in 1982, the King of Janow, son of the Queen of Poland, moved to California?

16 August 2019

 * 12:02, 16 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that a British climate scientist invented a graphic (shown) depicting historical global temperatures using coloured stripes to portray global warming to non-scientists?
 * ... that President Gerald Ford delayed the signing ceremony for the 1974 Jackson–Vanik amendment because Mark E. Talisman wife was in labor?
 * ... that the only building in England designed by the artist Piet de Jong could be turned into a Wetherspoons?
 * ... that German physician Wolf-Dieter Montag was the inaugural recipient of the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
 * ... that the Manhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977?
 * ... that despite being the majority language in the Indonesian town of Belang before World War II, the Ponosakan language had only four fluent speakers left in 2014?
 * ... that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race?
 * ... that among the many uses of Erythrophleum ivorense and Lannea welwitschii, trees growing in Assagny National Park, are rope-making, canoe-building and to poison fish?


 * 00:00, 16 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that activist Célia Xakriabá (pictured) is the first individual of indigenous descent to represent indigenous Brazilians in the Minas Gerais Department of Education?
 * ... that the historic Collingwood mansion in Virginia is expected to be demolished later this year?
 * ... that British physician Donald Irvine was the only general practitioner to have been a president of the General Medical Council?
 * ... that Bronx Park contains the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and what is believed to be New York City's only remaining uncleared forest?
 * ... that Alice Evans was the first British female professional futsal player?
 * ... that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
 * ... that in 1845, Samuel Mulledy was the President of Georgetown College, a Jesuit institution, but five years later was expelled from the Jesuit order?
 * ... that the nickname of a Russian submarine constructed from interconnected spheres comes from an animated circus animal made out of juggling balls?

15 August 2019

 * 12:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that policeman and artist Anatol created the outdoor iron sculpture series Wächter, including a group guarding the environment (pictured) and a memorial to fallen police officers?
 * ... that Lauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal?
 * ... that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make the automated white blood cell differential, a common blood test, possible?
 * ... that George Dashnau started the first mail order delivery service that supplied human skulls?
 * ... that the brown-cheeked hornbill is among the eleven species of hornbill native to Ivory Coast?
 * ... that Asamardhuni Jivayatra by Tripuraneni Gopichand is regarded as the first psychological novel in Telugu?
 * ... that Polish colonel Andrzej Marecki was one of the victims of the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
 * ... that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor preserved her house with skim milk?


 * 00:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Barney Smith (pictured) was a pastor before opening a museum at his home dedicated to toilet seat art?
 * ... that the African giant shrew was first described from a mummified specimen found in an ancient Egyptian tomb?
 * ... that Chance Rencountre is the first member of the Osage Nation to win a match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
 * ... that because the half-life of beryllium-8 is less than 10−16 seconds, there is a bottleneck in stellar nucleosynthesis that limits the abundance of heavier chemical elements?
 * ... that having wanted to appear in a Sailor Moon stage play since childhood, Momoyo Koyama was cast as Sailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014?
 * ... that the Solicitor of Labor leads the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government?
 * ... that in 1966, British journalist John Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicate Leif Erikson's voyage?
 * ... that the bridge built to cross the Red Canal in Saint Petersburg now spans an entirely different watercourse?

14 August 2019

 * 12:00, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the Continental Currency dollar coin (obverse pictured), the first pattern coin of the United States, was designed by Benjamin Franklin?
 * ... that Raja ibn Haywa, an adviser to the Umayyad caliphs, supervised the financing for the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
 * ... that the ornate rainbowfish can survive in water as acidic as orange juice?
 * ... that Myrtle Driver Johnson can translate into a language that has been declared to be in a state of emergency?
 * ... that the album Open Here by Field Music has what one band member calls "definitely the angriest songs I have ever written", inspired by Brexit?
 * ... that Green Bay Packers lawyer Gerald Francis Clifford served as assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and lost a congressional election in 1934?
 * ... that the Swan Canal, one of the oldest canals in Saint Petersburg, is crossed by the Upper and Lower Swan Bridges, the former being one of the oldest stone bridges in the city?
 * ... that according to legend, Gabriel Boughton treated Jahanara Begum's burns and in return received the right to free trade for the East India Company from her father Shah Jahan?


 * 00:00, 14 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Anna Eckstein (pictured) dressed in white and collected six million signatures to promote world peace before the First World War?
 * ... that the Northwestern Pacific Railroad interurban lines were the first use of third rail electrification in California?
 * ... that as a surgeon, John Campbell had the right to sit unelected on Edinburgh Town Council?
 * ... that Dardanus deformis is one of at least 24 species of hermit crab that transfer sea anemones to a new shell?
 * ... that Green Bay Packers president Emil R. Fischer was also a nationally-recognized leader in the Wisconsin cheese industry?
 * ... that with his victory at the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans, Dane Tom Kristensen became the first driver to win the endurance motor race five times in a row?
 * ... that Ravindra Dave directed Jesal Toral, one of the biggest hits of Gujarati cinema, to keep his production crew employed?
 * ... that the British government experimented on Berkshire residents in the 1950s?

13 August 2019

 * 12:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the third European factory to make "true" hard-paste porcelain (examples pictured) was the Vezzi porcelain factory of Venice, founded in 1720?
 * ... that Ambroise Ouédraogo, who became the first Bishop of Maradi, Niger, in 2001, has focused on dialogue with Islam?
 * ... that all five components of the climate system—air, water, ice, Earth's crust, and life—help determine Earth's average weather?
 * ... that pool player Han Yu did not celebrate after winning her first world championship?
 * ... that the Ethiopian white-footed mouse and the Ethiopian forest brush-furred rat are two of the most abundant rodents in the montane forests of Ethiopia?
 * ... that Elsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in World War II?
 * ... that in its early years, New York City's Q35 bus was considered unprofitable, despite charging a double fare for travel between two boroughs?
 * ... that after a Buddha statue was installed on an Oakland traffic median, neighborhood crime dropped by 82 percent?


 * 00:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Rose Hollermann (pictured) was the youngest player on the Team USA women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics?
 * ... that the Sahel bush sparrow, found in the Oti Valley Faunal Reserve, is one of 676 species of bird recorded in Togo?
 * ... that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering, who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
 * ... that the sons of Pyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference for a public monument?
 * ... that Zhang Xu discovered the regulatory mechanisms in sensory neurons for opioid receptors?
 * ... that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal, an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day 2018?
 * ... that Mike Pringle and Colin Bradley are credited with developing and instituting significant event audit (SEA) into primary care in the UK?
 * ... that Unbox Therapy sparked Apple's "Bendgate" controversy when host Lewis Hilsenteger used only his hands to bend his iPhone 6 Plus?

12 August 2019

 * 12:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Durant-Dort Factory One (pictured) in Flint, Michigan, is often considered the birthplace of General Motors?
 * ... that pianist Alexandre Kantorow won the first prize, gold medal, and Grand Prix in the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, becoming the first French winner in the competition's history?
 * ... that KSOM in Tucson, Arizona, suffered two transmitter fires in less than four years of broadcasting?
 * ... that Guðrún Björnsdóttir, a 20th-century Icelandic politician and women's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor?
 * ... that the nine balls of Parapivot come from nine different countries?
 * ... that Harold Forsyth, the Peruvian ambassador to Japan, is the father of a professional football player and husband of a beauty pageant queen?
 * ... that sheep infected with the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency?
 * ... that The Twilight Zone episode "The New Exhibit" features axe-murderer and last pirate of New York, Albert W. Hicks?


 * 00:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the weebill (pictured), measuring 8 to 9 cm long, is Australia's smallest bird?
 * ... that Paul Loicq from Belgium was the first European to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
 * ... that the C train, described as the "least loved of New York City subway lines", still uses subway cars that date to the 1960s?
 * ... that the North African Muhammad ibn Rushayd befriended the future Granadan vizier Ibn al-Hakim when the two travelled to Mecca for pilgrimage and study?
 * ... that Carlos Carrera's El héroe was the first Mexican entry to win the Short Film Palme d'Or, in 1994?
 * ... that Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen became a student of Arve Tellefsen by the age of four?
 * ... that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008 a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
 * ... that Karski's reports were the first comprehensive documents on the Holocaust in Poland to reach the government-in-exile?
 * ... that a century after Irish antiquarian Francis Joseph Bigger had revived the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, sites he had dug were still being referred to as "well and truly Biggered"?

11 August 2019

 * 00:00, 11 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Wibke Bruhns (pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of her father, who was executed by the Nazis?
 * ... that the Meers Fault in Oklahoma was active during the last 3,000 years and features a scarp that reaches 5 m in height?
 * ... that Nizam Nasir-ud-Daulah established a modern revenue administration system in Hyderabad State?
 * ... that the queen parrotfish feeds on the algae it scrapes from corals and other surfaces, resulting in bioerosion?
 * ... that Karen Saywitz developed "non-leading" techniques for interviewing child witnesses and victims?
 * ... that the Atascadero Printery, founded by Edward Gardner Lewis, housed the first rotogravure printing press in the Western United States?
 * ... that in 2011, Stephen J. Challacombe and colleagues laid out research challenges of global health inequalities and oral health, relating to TB, STDs, HIV, and Noma?
 * ... that a 0-year-old genderless fairy baby otter once threatened to "visit your house" with a baseball bat?

10 August 2019

 * 02:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that over its 300 years, the area of Saint Petersburg's Field of Mars has been a military parade ground, public meeting space, festival site, and location for sports and exercises (pictured)?
 * ... that prolific British author S. H. "Tim" Burton hand-wrote his books because he could not stand typewriters?
 * ... that imaging scientist Katie Bouman first learned of the Event Horizon Telescope in 2007, while still in high school, and joined the project six years later?
 * ... that the investigational drug SEP-363856 may represent a new class of antipsychotics?
 * ... that in addition to founding Tmura, an anti-discrimination center that advocates for women's rights, Yifat Bitton was shortlisted for Israel's Supreme Court twice?
 * ... that the maple Acer beckianum was described from a piece of petrified wood found near Vantage, Washington, in 1954?
 * ... that the 1813 sinking of the British warship HMS Peacock was celebrated with a song by Eliakim Doolittle?
 * ... that Ottessa Moshfegh's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, was originally planned to focus on the September 11 attacks?
 * ... that Ina Kaplan was six months pregnant when she won three of the four 2014 German national pool championships?

9 August 2019

 * 02:19, 9 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the name of the Afsarwala tomb (pictured) translates as 'officer's tomb', but the identity of the occupant is unknown?
 * ... that Günther Leib, who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival, was called a "first rate Beckmesser" by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera?
 * ... that Elongatoolithus, Macroolithus, and Nanhsiungoolithus were the first types of fossil eggs to be given names in the modern classification system?
 * ... that American academic Amy Wax graduated from Harvard Medical School before becoming a lawyer?
 * ... that the Pampean flat-slab is an area of low angle subduction in South America, associated with a large volcano-free gap in the Andean Volcanic Belt?
 * ... that Starting for the Hunt by Aelbert Cuyp is an early example of an equestrian portrait of someone who was not a member of court?
 * ... that Lionel Matthews was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the courage he displayed while a prisoner of war?
 * ... that following the release of "You Need to Calm Down", GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations?

8 August 2019

 * 00:00, 8 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Sonny West (pictured), the co-writer of Buddy Holly's hits "Oh, Boy!" and "Rave On", took 40 years to finish the follow-up songs?
 * ... that fronds of the seaweed Halimeda tuna each consist of a single cell?
 * ... that after fleeing Chihuahua due to death threats, Patricia Mayorga dedicated her 2017 CPJ International Press Freedom Award to two murdered journalists?
 * ... that the Hong Kong commercial–residential high-rise Ocean One has a concert hall on its first floor?
 * ... that paediatric surgeon Robert Zachary and his colleagues improved the survival rate of babies with spina bifida from 10% to 90% by operating within hours of birth?
 * ... that in 2015, Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus announced a joint research agreement with San Diego State University to develop electric batteries and other technologies?
 * ... that Turkey's Aksungur MALE UAV has a designed maximum payload nearly four times that of its predecessor?
 * ... that footballer Alice Griffiths represented Wales for the first time after playing as the only girl in an otherwise all-boys league?

7 August 2019

 * 00:00, 7 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the Carron Bridge (pictured) was the last cast-iron railway bridge to be built and used in Scotland?
 * ... that Isoldé Elchlepp began her career as a protest song singer and later appeared as Wagner's Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival and as Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Staatsoper Hannover?
 * ... that an inscription at the tomb of Isa Khan claims that it is an "asylum of paradise"?
 * ... that Murtaja Qureiris, the youngest political prisoner in Saudi Arabia, is a member of the Shia minority who may face execution for taking part in anti-government protests when he was 10 years old?
 * ... that the Creole Petroleum Corporation's 1956 propaganda film Assignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
 * ... that William Pope created "the first comprehensive, well executed pictorial record of Canadian birds"?
 * ... that in a 2019 court case, the US Supreme Court ruled that Wyoming's statehood did not void the Crow Tribe's right to hunt on unoccupied lands?
 * ... that Charles Clarke acted as a watcher for The Great Escape and helped forge papers for the escapees?

6 August 2019

 * 00:00, 6 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that philanthropist Mary Robinson Foster (pictured) was known as the first Hawaiian Buddhist?
 * ... that Lawrence of Arabia's plan to install the Sharif of Mecca's sons as rulers in what became modern Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and western Saudi Arabia was only partially successful?
 * ... that in 1599, Henry IV of France appointed Humphrey Bradley maître des digues du royaume ('master of dykes of the kingdom'), giving him an effective monopoly of all dyking and land reclamation work in France?
 * ... that the 2018 art installation We Come in Peace was described as "eerie, other, unnerving, ambiguous, even alarming"?
 * ... that Gordon Bell was awarded the Military Cross 31 years before becoming president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons?
 * ... that critics found the couch gag of The Simpsons episode "Dad Behavior" "pretty darned grim" and "bleak", as all but one of the Simpsons die during its otherwise familiar title sequence?
 * ... that a biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett, co-authored by Charles Lyon Chandler, went unpublished after two others came out the same year?
 * ... that during the Peasants' Revolt, Margery Starre danced with a mob that sacked Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and burnt its charters, shouting: "Away with the learning of clerks, away with it!"?

5 August 2019

 * 00:00, 5 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the Challacombe scale assesses the severity of a dry mouth (illustration shown)?
 * ... that Jeanne Laisné appeared as Aurore in the 1894 world premiere of Massenet's Le portrait de Manon, a sequel to his Manon?
 * ... that a clandestinely-distributed poem about the Kurds became a Ukrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
 * ... that after Josephine Groves Holloway petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same?
 * ... that the Kivu Ebola epidemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 17 July?
 * ... that at a young age, German TV personality Ranga Yogeshwar learned Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam in order to communicate with his housekeeper, teacher, and gardener, respectively?
 * ... that the new pine knot-horn is a serious pest of maritime pine plantations?
 * ... that American collage artist Eunice Parsons, who turns 103 today, is the last of the "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism"?

4 August 2019

 * 00:00, 4 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that trash, sediment, and debris from Tijuana flow into the United States through Smuggler's Gulch (pictured)?
 * ... that Johann Münzberg ran leading textile factories in Bohemia and promoted the building of the Empress Elisabeth Bridge over the Elbe?
 * ... that WBUZ and four other operating radio stations lost their FCC licenses as a result of the owner being convicted of felonies?
 * ... that Mother Berry, a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child?
 * ... that the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation investigates both Nazi crimes and communist crimes?
 * ... that Ning Bin, who won a national special prize for his contribution to the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway, died in a traffic accident?
 * ... that the tree Humbertia madagascariensis, whose durable timber is used in heavy construction, is a member of the morning glory family?
 * ... that Hollywood furrier Willard H. George was known as "the chinchilla industry's greatest friend"?

3 August 2019

 * 00:00, 3 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Arthur Sullivan (pictured) was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing four drowning soldiers under fire during the North Russia intervention in 1919?
 * ... that the excavated Asthall barrow was found to contain a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial?
 * ... that East German Udo Zimmermann composed his fifth opera, Die wundersame Schustersfrau, based on a Spanish play by Federico García Lorca, on a commission for the West German Schwetzingen Festival?
 * ... that Charles H. Stonestreet received the First Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852 as President of Georgetown University?
 * ... that Dioscorea chouardii is known from a single crag in the Pyrenees and has been monitored using scaffolding and telescopes?
 * ... that since 2001, street artist John Hamon has postered and projected his image on the buildings of Paris and 76 other cities around the world?
 * ... that prior to the first town council elections in Loxahatchee Groves, Florida, a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a nudist resort?
 * ... that English theatre historian "Popie" called Robert Michaelis "one of the very best performers Daly's ever had"?
 * ... that, described as being "cursed", Rispin Mansion was variously used as a SWAT practice ground, a residence, a real-estate showroom, a ghost hunting site, and a nunnery?

2 August 2019

 * 00:00, 2 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Wilhelmine Lübke (pictured, center), who joined her husband, President of West Germany Heinrich Lübke, on more than 50 state visits, was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian?
 * ... that the Uptown Hudson Tubes in New York City were constructed with sharp curves to avoid the demolition of preexisting basements?
 * ... that Zhang Xu played a major role in developing fiber-optic communication in China?
 * ... that many residents who were relocated prior to the filling of Lake Kossou were able to return to their land when the reservoir failed to reach full capacity?
 * ... that American historian Pamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889?
 * ... that Assam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sell methanol as cooking fuel?
 * ... that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the TARDIS doors would not close?
 * ... that Japanese pool player Naoyuki Ōi once responded to a question asked at a press conference with lyrics from the comedy song "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen"?
 * ... that the Mongols were advised to invade Sakhalin island in 1273 by marching across the frozen Strait of Tartary?

1 August 2019

 * 00:00, 1 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the 2008 Universal fire (pictured) may have destroyed the audio master tapes of up to half a million songs?
 * ... that Kent Angus, a Canadian businessman and Paul Loicq Award winner, incorporated hidden details into hockey jerseys for Team Canada and other countries at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
 * ... that Puke Ariki, the name for the combined library and museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is Māori for "hill of chiefs"?
 * ... that on June 29, Major General Laura Yeager became the first woman to command an infantry division in the United States Army?
 * ... that John Rutter wrote the text and music of A Clare Benediction for choir and orchestra to honour Clare College, Cambridge, where he had studied?
 * ... that falguera, a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
 * ... that thirty million copies of the university textbook compiled by Xu Zhongyu have been printed?
 * ... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the Big Bull after the market crashed?