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30 November 2019

 * 00:00, 30 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Gongnyong Ridge (pictured) in Seoraksan National Park, South Korea, acquired its name (lit. 'Dinosaur Ridge') from its peaks looking as "vigorous and dynamic as a dinosaur rising from the ground"?
 * ... that Ellie Morrison is the first woman to serve as the national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America since its incorporation in 1910?
 * ... that the massive Sasanian fortification of Iraj Castle lacks any structure in its interior?
 * ... that acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf stated that, as chief of staff, it was not his responsibility to determine whether the Trump administration family separation policy was right or wrong?
 * ... that the parasitic wasp Lathrolestes luteolator has adopted the amber-marked birch leaf miner as a new host?
 * ... that Hedwig Porschütz, who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, was not honoured as an "unsung heroine" in West Berlin because she had been a prostitute?
 * ... that Vermont's first FM radio station renamed itself WQCR, standing for "Wonderful Queen City Radio", in 1972?
 * ... that the Queen briefly lived at 77 South Audley Street?

29 November 2019

 * 00:00, 29 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, a film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play with the Berliner Ensemble, premiered on the author's birthday (opening night pictured)?
 * ... that American politician Safiya Wazir came to Uzbekistan as a refugee from Afghanistan?
 * ... that the 2019 Basshunter song "Home" was described as a throwback to the bounce music of the 2000s?
 * ... that Zeng Rongsheng organized a Sino-American joint investigation of the geology of the Tibetan Plateau and examined the collision process of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate?
 * ... that the Northwestern Lumberman, known originally as the Lumbermen's Gazette, was the first trade magazine for the U.S. lumber industry?
 * ... that the ambrosia beetle Euplatypus parallelus cultivates fungi in the galleries it creates for its larvae?
 * ... that Alexandrea Owens became known as "the Titanic girl" after performing with Leonardo DiCaprio in the James Cameron epic at the age of eight?
 * ... that a local story suggests that, in 1912, a cow swam the entire 1630 yd length of the Foulridge Tunnel before being pulled out and revived with some brandy?

28 November 2019

 * 00:00, 28 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the appointment of Eugen Ernst (pictured) as president of the Berlin police prompted the Spartacist uprising of 1919?
 * ... that a man claiming to be Lynyrd Skynyrd's Billy Powell fooled Sioux Falls radio station KRRO into letting him sing in their studios?
 * ... that Chinese archaeologist Duan Qingbo found that the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor bore similarities to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus built a century earlier?
 * ... that women vendors at Victorian charity bazaars were criticized for using the events to flirt with men?
 * ... that 19th-century bridge builder Zenas King built thousands of bridges across the continental United States, some of which are still standing?
 * ... that the green spruce aphid often continues breeding throughout the winter, but the nymphs become dormant in the summer?
 * ... that Isabelle Kabatu, a Belgian soprano of African origin, recorded the role of Dolly in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly alongside José Carreras in the title role?
 * ... that the 2018 teen drama Skate Kitchen was partly filmed with a camera mounted on a motorized skateboard deck traveling at speeds of up to 20 mph?

27 November 2019

 * 00:00, 27 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Li Yin paintings (example shown) were so sought after that as many as forty imitators in her area turned out fakes of her work?
 * ... that British submarine HMS Sceptre towed an X-class midget submarine tasked with attacking German battleships off Norway?
 * ... that Carolyn F. Ulrich, who began her career with no formal library training, eventually became the chief of the periodicals division at the New York Public Library?
 * ... that England's 2019 Tree of the Year, the Allerton Oak, was reportedly damaged in an 1864 gunpowder explosion?
 * ... that Aaron Hawkins uses nail polish to guide laser light into optofluidic devices to detect antibiotic resistance?
 * ... that the southern black korhaan, native to South Africa, is becoming rarer due to loss of its natural habitat to agriculture?
 * ... that Reuben Hill is considered the "founding father" of the sociology of the family discipline?
 * ... that after recording material later compiled into the album Breaking It Up!, Louis Prima left Columbia Records in a disagreement over "Come On-a My House"?

26 November 2019

 * 00:00, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that both Rye railway station (pictured) and its signal box are Grade II listed?
 * ... that Cameron Chesterfield Alleyne was the first resident bishop in Africa for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church?
 * ... that Vasily Kalinnikov composed his Symphony No. 1 while suffering from tuberculosis?
 * ... that Aneurin Bevan led the establishment of the National Health Service, which was inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in his hometown?
 * ... that in Nova Scotia, the tricolored bat roosts exclusively in the dangling fronds of bony beard lichen?
 * ... that Adaora Adimora, an American professor who studies sexually transmitted infections among minorities, was named one of the top 100 African American leaders by The Root in 2009?
 * ... that WXGM AM dropped its coverage of William & Mary Tribe athletics in favor of the smaller Christopher Newport University, since CNU offered to pay for the rights?
 * ... that Pan Wen-Yuan is known as the "father" of the integrated circuit industry in Taiwan despite having never studied, worked for pay, or settled there?

25 November 2019

 * 00:00, 25 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that between 1920 and 1938, the NAACP flew a flag (pictured) at its New York headquarters to mark each lynching that occurred in the United States?
 * ... that as a 10-year-old, Lin Mei-hong joined a dance troupe in Taiwan founded by the Italian priest Gian Carlo Michelini, and later choreographed for the troupe?
 * ... that the tree Drypetes gerrardii was named after William Gerrard, who collected plants in southern Africa in the 1860s?
 * ... that CNN political correspondent MJ Lee became an American citizen during the 2016 United States presidential election campaign, which she reported on?
 * ... that the first Paleolithic sculpture of a woman found in modern times was excavated at Laugerie-Basse, one of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley?
 * ... that in 2019, Ivorian footballer Amad Traoré became the first player born in 2002 to score in the Serie A?
 * ... that the 1934 choral composition Totentanz (Danse Macabre) by Hugo Distler combines motets with spoken dialogue between Death and its victims?
 * ... that English diabetes specialist Harry Keen conducted a scientific study in which every adult in the town of Bedford was asked to provide a urine sample for testing?

24 November 2019

 * 00:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Taiwan's Amis Music Festival (performers pictured) does not publish its schedule in advance, preferring to focus attention on the overall theme of aboriginal heritage rather than individual performers?
 * ... that American diplomat George Kent speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and Thai, as well as some Polish, German, and Italian?
 * ... that Red Dead Redemption 2 features 1,200 actors and 500,000 lines of dialogue?
 * ... that in 2005, multidisciplinary artist Serge Rezvani married actress Marie-José Nat, whom he had first met nearly half a century before?
 * ... that The Boring Company plans to use car elevators to lower cars into its proposed underground Hyperloop system?
 * ... that tropical ecologist Winifred Hallwachs helped develop and expand the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
 * ... that in 1972, the Schools Action Union organised two strikes by schoolchildren in London?
 * ... that the main shrine of the Harshat Mata Temple depicts a royal figure and his consorts engaged in amorous activities?

23 November 2019

 * 00:00, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Fred Rogers`s 1969 testimony (video shown) resurfaced in 2012 and 2017 to counter calls for defunding PBS and similar non-profit arts-related organizations?
 * ... that Benjamin Britten, who composed A Hymn of St Columba for the 1,400th anniversary of Saint Columba's voyage to Iona, wanted it sung "with fire"?
 * ... that nurse and suffragette Mary Bartlett Dixon helped establish the first hospital in Easton, Maryland?
 * ... that the male of the hoverfly species Syritta pipiens darts sharply in flight to facilitate mating?
 * ... that Mustafa Güzelgöz was called the "Librarian with Donkey" as he circulated hundreds of books among villagers in Ürgüp, Turkey, on the back of a donkey?
 * ... that the Isaac T. Hopper House, built during the development of one of New York City's wealthiest neighborhoods, is now a halfway house for women?
 * ... that Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa contributed artwork to a BDSM pulp magazine while still in high school?
 * ... that in 1998 a buyer of Colorado radio station KGRE risked his entire savings and maxed out seven credit cards to acquire it?

22 November 2019

 * 00:00, 22 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Māru-Gurjara architecture (example pictured) originated in Gujarat and Rajasthan from the 11th to 13th centuries, but can now be found in Antwerp and Potters Bar?
 * ... that it took Pan Handian, a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation, 27 years to translate Machiavelli's The Prince into Chinese?
 * ... that an owner of radio station KPRB sold it to devote himself to his duties as the fire chief of Redmond, Oregon?
 * ... that in a Russian naval tradition, vice admiral Viktor Mardusin presented the commander of one of his warships with a roast piglet?
 * ... that infestations of Leptoconops torrens biting flies have halted construction and farming projects in California?
 * ... that during the Apollo 11 program, biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan was instantly identifiable if she made an error as she was the only female voice on NASA's headset link?
 * ... that after the Bengal famine of 1943 was denied by authorities, news reports with images of the victims in English-language papers made it known internationally?
 * ... that the unpaid dowry owed by Lucia Visconti family upon her marriage to Edmund Holland remained a source of friction between England and Milan for more than 60 years after her death?

21 November 2019

 * 00:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that in 2019, Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman (pictured) received the Order of British Columbia for her contributions to a better quality of life in the province "and beyond"?
 * ... that just prior to the construction of 500 Fifth Avenue, the site on which it was built was reportedly the second most valuable undeveloped lot in Manhattan?
 * ... that Akira the Hustler was a member of the Biters, a performance art group whose members were both artists and sex workers?
 * ... that the first incarnation of radio station WYFI was described as running "on faith and LPs" and ending in an "Edsel-like burn" within a year?
 * ... that Chinese government minister Xiao Han lost two sons in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake?
 * ... that in 2006, David Lehman said that poet John Ashbery had received more major honors and awards than any other living American writer?
 * ... that with 21 goals, Hassan Maatouk is the Lebanon national football team's all-time top goalscorer?
 * ... that the Satanic nightjar can make a growling noise when disturbed?

20 November 2019

 * 00:00, 20 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that a film set for The Mummy was built at Gara Medouar (pictured), an 11th-century fortress on a rock plateau near Sijilmasa, Morocco?
 * ... that the William Ulmer Brewery, the first brewery to be designated a New York City landmark, produced up to 3,200,000 gal of beer per year?
 * ... that with Danielle Dithurbide appointment to anchor the morning newscast on Las Estrellas, a majority of Mexican news broadcaster Noticieros Televisa's news programs are hosted by women?
 * ... that the Racecourse Ground, which has hosted more Wales home international matches than any other stadium, is the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football fixtures?
 * ... that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf, who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria?
 * ... that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
 * ... that in addition to writing operas that premiered in Porto and Paris, Italian classical organist and composer Francesco Filidei has collaborated with a singer-songwriter on a theatrical show?
 * ... that soldiers were reduced to eating rats during the Siege of Masaka?

19 November 2019

 * 00:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that musicologist Uwe Wolf conducted X-ray research to distinguish J. S. Bach's handwriting in the score of his Mass in B minor from changes made by his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel (revised page pictured)?
 * ... that in 1939, alert workers at West Virginia radio station WBLK saved equipment from a devastating fire, and the station returned to the air within 45 minutes to report the blaze?
 * ... that the diaries of James Humphreys, the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict thirteen members of the Metropolitan Police Force of accepting his bribes?
 * ... that Calvert Vaux Park, named after the landscape architect found dead in a nearby bay, is largely made of landfill from the construction of the Verrazzano Bridge?
 * ... that Xie Gaohua established the Yiwu Market, which has grown into the world's largest small commodities market?
 * ... that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the Gateway of India?
 * ... that Order of Canada recipient Thelma Finlayson was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita?
 * ... that A. N. Wilson described Oxford's Clarendon Shopping Centre when it opened as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"?

18 November 2019

 * 00:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the female black-capped tanager (pictured) moulds her nest by vibrating in it?
 * ... that after having to leave her World War I posting in Greece upon contracting dysentery, Canadian nurse Mabel Clint later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France?
 * ... that more than 100 interviews were conducted for the 2019 documentary Queer Japan?
 * ... that Frank Philipp Schlößmann designed the stage for Wagner's Ring cycle in Bayreuth in 2006, and more recently created a large illuminated ring framing the stage for the same work in Minden?
 * ... that a scheme for declaring ten public and ten private institutions as Institutes of Eminence has been approved in India?
 * ... that Chen Zhongyi, an engineer born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S., taught the future Chinese president Hu Jintao?
 * ... that the stories in Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy, published posthumously in 2014, had been written over a period of decades and filed away in a drawer?
 * ... that Carla Lalli Music, the food director of Bon Appétit magazine, was the first general manager at Shake Shack?

17 November 2019

 * 00:00, 17 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Japanese fighter ace Naoshi Kanno (pictured), credited with 25 confirmed kills, appears in the anime Drifters?
 * ... that Irish republican O'Donovan Rossa claimed that the phrase "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity" was typically used as an excuse for inaction?
 * ... that having received the results of the 1848 U.S. presidential election by telegraph, George F. Lewis helped publish the news of Zachary Taylor's win?
 * ... that much of the stone material studied by archeologists at the 12th-century fortress of Tasghîmût near Marrakesh has since been hauled off by local builders?
 * ... that Dorothy Spiers was the first woman to qualify as an actuary in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that WACH-TV in Newport News, Virginia, pleaded with the FCC to regulate networks because another station was "hogging" affiliations?
 * ... that Renatus Mészár, who made his opera debut at the Munich Biennale and then was a member of the NDR Chor, has appeared as Wotan in Wagner's Ring cycle, including on DVD?
 * ... that the Guinness World Record for the largest bowl of braised pork rice is 647 kg?

16 November 2019

 * 00:00, 16 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that John Ystumllyn (portrait shown) has been described as the first black person of North Wales "about whom we have detailed knowledge"?
 * ... that in the 1858 Staten Island Quarantine War, angry local residents burned down the United States' largest quarantine facility after years of opposition?
 * ... that self-taught Israeli singer-songwriter Ishay Ribo has released four studio albums, two of them certified gold and one platinum?
 * ... that Red Dead Redemption 2 was developed by a team of 1,600 people?
 * ... that Samuel May Williams borrowed against his brother's credit to purchase the 125-ton schooner Invincible on behalf of Texian rebels?
 * ... that the Isla dela Victoria resort and casino under construction in Kawit Island, Cebu City, Philippines, is named for a city officer murdered for his role in the fight against illegal fishing?
 * ... that Margaret Lyons, the first female vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, was nicknamed the "Dragon Lady"?
 * ... that for their 2019 documentary film The Elephant Queen, the two directors followed elephant herds for four years?

15 November 2019

 * 00:00, 15 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the Michigan Firehouse Museum (pictured) is home to the largest collection of fire truck bells in the United States?
 * ... that Rear Admiral Ma Weiming has led the development of the electromagnetic catapult system for China's future aircraft carriers?
 * ... that the bark of Guibourtia tessmannii is much esteemed in traditional medicine and is often removed from living trees?
 * ... that George W. Hotchkiss published the world's first lumber journal, the Lumberman's Gazette?
 * ... that a fake version of Bish's album Carrots and Sticks became the sixth-bestselling album in Japan for the week of its release?
 * ... that George Wimpey CEO Joe Dwyer thought general contracting was a "mug's game" and converted the firm into a housebuilder?
 * ... that the death of a track marshal as a result of a two-car collision on lap five of the 2001 Australian Grand Prix was not announced until after the race ended?
 * ... that John Cule was forced to learn Italian because his batman spoke no English?

14 November 2019

 * 00:00, 14 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Walk-in-the-Water (pictured), which made her maiden voyage from Buffalo to Detroit in 1818, was the first steamboat to run on Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan?
 * ... that Manisha Moun kept her boxing interest a secret from her father until he read in a newspaper that she had won a medal?
 * ... that in his Purcell Realizations, Benjamin Britten created arrangements for voice and piano of songs by Henry Purcell, as a commemoration of the 250th anniversary in 1945 of Purcell's death?
 * ... that Anne C. Morel was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington?
 * ... that Shinori Fort in Hokkaido was twice sacked by the Ainu?
 * ... that businessman Delford M. Smith acquired the Spruce Goose for the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon?
 * ... that subjects of Venezuelan films of the 1890s include a dentist pulling teeth in a hotel and a man getting into a brawl with a stagecoach driver?
 * ... that botanist George R. Proctor collected more than 55,000 specimens, had 31 species named after him, and was convicted of a conspiracy to murder his wife?

13 November 2019

 * 00:00, 13 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that 52 years ago today, PFC John A. Barnes III (pictured) was killed after jumping on a grenade to save wounded comrades during the Vietnam War?
 * ... that New York City's Beekman Tower, built as housing for women in college sororities, was later patronized by United Nations delegates?
 * ... that cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal lived in a tent and sold panipuri before becoming the youngest List A double centurion?
 * ... that the assassin bug Rhynocoris marginatus injects venomous saliva into its prey to paralyse it?
 * ... that Rhode Island Public Radio's 2007 acquisition of WAKX brought NPR service to communities in southern Rhode Island for the first time?
 * ... that Helmuth Froschauer, a former member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, later conducted the ensemble on 22 international tours?
 * ... that Massport is expanding its Logan Express service, expecting to remove up to three million vehicle trips from the roads in and around Boston's Logan International Airport?
 * ... that Tsai Ying-wen jokingly said that his award-winning book had sold well because readers mistook the author as Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen?

12 November 2019

 * 00:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the rest on arms reversed command (pictured) is used as a mark of respect at funerals and occasions of mourning in some militaries?
 * ... that a cross from the grave of a Canadian World War I soldier was brought back to Canada by W. A. Fry, and now hangs in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dunnville, Ontario?
 * ... that Louisiana radio station WBOX lost more than 90 percent of its advertisers as a result of a 1965 boycott by the Ku Klux Klan?
 * ... that Chinese businessman Zhang Zhenxin bought a majority share of the Castlemartyr Resort in Ireland after Kanye West and Kim Kardashian spent part of their honeymoon there?
 * ... that each Xyloterinus politus larva has its own individual cradle?
 * ... that Gwendolyne Cowart – the "youngest girl in the south" to obtain a commercial pilot's license – went on to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II?
 * ... that the song "A Pittance of Time" was written to remind people to observe the two-minute silence on Remembrance Day?
 * ... that the "GOETHE 1" car registration plate of UC Irvine professor Thomas P. Saine was featured in a German novel?

11 November 2019

 * 00:00, 11 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that when Lois Ellen Frank (pictured) first proposed her 2003 James Beard Award–winning cookbook on Native American foods, publishers told her there was no such cuisine?
 * ... that players are only likely to hear around one-third of all the music created for Red Dead Redemption 2 in a standard playthrough?
 * ... that before becoming a film director, Nepal's Nischal Basnet went to Australia to study 3D animation, but ended up studying hospitality and becoming a chef?
 * ... that today's MLS Cup 2019 will be the third cup final in four years to feature Seattle Sounders FC and Toronto FC?
 * ... that Christof Nel staged the world premiere of Thomas Brasch's play Rotter and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's opera Kullervo?
 * ... that in a single week in 1992, a four-man team including Mick Fowler and Andy Nisbet climbed all the main stacks of the Drongs?
 * ... that Christina Maria Rantetana was buried in a combined military-traditional funeral, with a salvo of shots as her body was placed in a niche 30 m up a cliff?
 * ... that Hawaii radio station KKON change of format from "beautiful music" to a rock-and-roll/country mix in 1974 lasted just one day?

10 November 2019

 * 00:00, 10 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the fall of the Berlin Wall (immediate aftermath pictured) was the result of a bureaucratic mistake?
 * ... that Anne L. Stevens disguised herself in order to enroll in the male-only mechanics pit crew at a race track?
 * ... that UK prime minister Boris Johnson said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than seek an extension to Brexit under the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019?
 * ... that paediatrician Ji Xiaocheng co-founded the first neonatal intensive care unit in China?
 * ... that the lamenting grasshopper seems to be expanding its range northwards in Italy, possibly as a result of climate change?
 * ... that Belgian bass Tijl Faveyts, recognized internationally since his 2006 performance as Mozart's Sarastro at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, has portrayed both Fasolt and Hunding in Der Ring in Minden?
 * ... that for his narrative poetry novel The Long Take, Robin Robertson became the first poet and first Scot to win the Walter Scott Prize?
 * ... that Jack Hadley founded his own black history museum in Thomasville, Georgia?

9 November 2019

 * 00:00, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that in a condition known as carcinocythemia, cells from cancerous tumours can be seen in patients' blood smears (example pictured)?
 * ... that Jennifer Morgan, co-chief executive officer at SAP SE, is the first woman CEO of a company on the DAX index?
 * ... that after a secret purchase from Europe, the Special Group became the first Indian troops to be equipped with the AK-47?
 * ... that the death of Tony Renna and major accidents involving four other drivers led the Indy Racing League to lower car speeds and engine horsepower from the 2004 Indianapolis 500 onward?
 * ... that two men who plotted to assassinate King George I were arrested in the Green Man public house in 1722?
 * ... that Peng Yuxing was a "czar" of China's military–industrial complex?
 * ... that a vandal "knew what he was doing" when he disconnected the fuse blocks to WEYY transmitter, keeping it off the air for two and a half hours?
 * ... that director Kunihiko Ikuhara sought to make the 1999 film Adolescence of Utena "more naughty" than the television series it was adapted from?

8 November 2019

 * 00:00, 8 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Robert Hunter (pictured) wrote the lyrics to the Grateful Dead song "Dire Wolf" after watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles the night before?
 * ... that Togashi Masachika was restored to power by a rebel army, only to later commit suicide when confronted by a similar force?
 * ... that Edite Estrela MEP received 80,000 emails in opposition to a nonbinding European Union resolution in favour of sex education and other reproductive rights?
 * ... that Melissa Leilani Larson`s play Pilot Program imagines a future where members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are asked to practice polygamy again?
 * ... that the Qarhan Playa's Bieletan subbasin – including the Suli, South Suli, Dabiele, and Xiaobiele salt lakes – is China's largest source of brine lithium?
 * ... that for his role in the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Yevgeny Bushmin was awarded the medal "For the Return of Crimea" by Russia, and placed under sanctions by the United States?
 * ... that the Union Literary Institute was established after the Indiana General Assembly barred African Americans from attending public schools?
 * ... that wheelchair rugby co-inventor Duncan Campbell is nicknamed "the Quadfather"?

7 November 2019

 * 00:00, 7 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Xia Peisu (pictured), the "mother of computer science" in China, and her husband Yang Liming, who helped explain magic numbers, were elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the same time?
 * ... that Seneca Village, a community composed mainly of free black people, was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City's Central Park?
 * ... that German engineer Hermann Oestrich became a Knight of the Legion of Honour for developing the Snecma Atar turbojet engines?
 * ... that just three years after starting radio station WESQ, North Carolina Wesleyan College sold it, partly because of a failure to integrate the station into its curriculum?
 * ... that James Brown, a visually impaired Paralympian, recently climbed atop an aeroplane to protest against government inaction on climate change?
 * ... that the Society of Gentleman Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity sought to increase the fees payable to solicitors and attorneys, which had been fixed for more than a century?
 * ... that President of Georgetown University Lawrence C. Gorman worked to have the first black students admitted as undergraduates?
 * ... that one user said of JOSS, an interactive programming system at RAND, "it's better than beer"?

6 November 2019

 * 00:00, 6 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that the Lang Ayre (pictured), the longest beach in Shetland, has red sand?
 * ... that Hall of Fame players Curly Lambeau and Arnie Herber both played in the Green Bay East–Green Bay West football rivalry?
 * ... that in 1985, Hezi Shai and two other captured soldiers were returned to Israel in exchange for 1,150 Palestinian and Lebanese security prisoners?
 * ... that the first chapter of Go For It, Nakamura! was commissioned to fill a gap of empty pages in the manga magazine in which it was published?
 * ... that Abraham Groves is credited with performing the first appendectomy in North America?
 * ... that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation wound up operating a radio station when it seized a failed Tennessee bank, which in turn had seized WIDD?
 * ... that Ding Shisun considered his own tenure as President of Peking University a failure, but scholar Ji Xianlin called him one of the two best presidents in the institution's history?
 * ... that poison devil's-pepper has been used both as rat poison and as a traditional medicine for humans?

5 November 2019

 * 00:00, 5 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that in 1945, British medical student Michael Hargrave (pictured, second from right) volunteered to provide assistance in the Netherlands, but was sent to help survivors at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp instead?
 * ... that Toki Pona, a constructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words?
 * ... that Ramatoulie DK Sanneh, The Gambia's first woman general, has campaigned against gender-based violence?
 * ... that Ramin Djawadi was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for an episode of the Westworld season 2 soundtrack, but lost out to his own work on Game of Thrones season 7?
 * ... that Jiang Weipu has been called the "patron saint of lianhuanhua"?
 * ... that the assassin bug Rhynocoris longifrons will feed on moth larvae in preference to sap-sucking pests?
 * ... that Mikhail Semyonov swapped a career in mining for one in politics, rising to the position of Chairman of the People's Khural of Buryatia?
 * ... that Mill Creek, Washington, was not named after a mill or a creek?

4 November 2019

 * 00:00, 4 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Brants's whistling rat (illustration shown) seldom ventures more than 30 cm from one of the many entrances to its burrow?
 * ... that Khema, one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, attained enlightenment before even becoming a nun?
 * ... that none of the people who established North Carolina radio station WVSP had any prior experience in radio broadcasting?
 * ... that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok (Games)?
 * ... that Brazil was the only country with an exhibit at the 1918 Bronx "World's Fair"?
 * ... that Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a senior leader of Israel's Shas party, once said that those who did not vote for the party would go to hell?
 * ... that the Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin mountain range in Mexico is made up of more than one hundred volcanic cones?
 * ... that Ernest Graves Jr. was one of four generations of his family to go to West Point, all of whom graduated first or second in their class?

3 November 2019

 * 00:00, 3 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that an omelette created by Mother Poulard (pictured) is one of the major tourist attractions in Mont-Saint-Michel, France?
 * ... that today's 2019 Rugby World Cup Final between England and South Africa is a repeat of the 2007 final?
 * ... that Thomas Sturgis was a prisoner of war in the American Civil War, a prominent cattle grower, and New York City Fire Commissioner?
 * ... that a 1945 ordinance by the Cebu City Council was the first to regulate cockfighting venues in the Philippines?
 * ... that in The Book of Gutsy Women, the mother-and-daughter authors feature, among others, the 17th-century nun Juana Inés de la Cruz and climate activist Greta Thunberg?
 * ... that Canadian SoundCloud rapper bbno$ became interested in music after suffering a back injury that prevented him from pursuing his dreams as a competitive swimmer?
 * ... that the All Blacks were once defeated by Rhodesia, a non-test rugby playing country?
 * ... that Kurt Rackow and his soldiers were trapped for hours during the Battle of Verdun, even though their comrades were just 20 ft away?

2 November 2019

 * 00:00, 2 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that "Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times", a slogan commonly chanted at the 2019 Hong Kong protests (shown), was first used for a LegCo campaign in 2016?
 * ... that Bill Walton made 21 of his 22 field goal attempts in the 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game?
 * ... that Swedish sociologist Ulf Himmelstrand has been called the "father of sociology in Nigeria"?
 * ... that XHFAMX-TDT "La Octava", which opens tonight, marks Grupo Radio Centro's return to Mexico City television for the first time since 1972?
 * ... that Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev wrote on mechanics, investigated a tsarina, was in charge of the Ladoga Canal, and sported with concubines as commandant of Okhotsk?
 * ... that the film Under the Knife argues that Britain's state-run National Health Service is being intentionally privatised?
 * ... that in his 1950 speech at the United Nations, Chinese diplomat Wu Xiuquan demanded that the United States withdraw its forces from Taiwan and Korea?
 * ... that rings of modular forms are stacky thanks to GAGA?

1 November 2019

 * 00:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ... that Ladakh was originally called Maryul (capital pictured), the "lowland" of West Tibet?
 * ... that American tenor Joshua Guerrero stepped in at late notice to sing Almaviva in a Grammy Award-winning production of The Ghosts of Versailles?
 * ... that the common name of the Halloween darter refers to the orange and black coloration that individuals develop during the breeding season?
 * ... that Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia?
 * ... that the skeleton frog Boophis popi can be identified by its bright red irises?
 * ... that the namesake of Betsy Head Park left half her estate to the New York City parks system and only $5 to her daughter?
 * ... that the Coffin Cave mold beetle may not actually be found in Coffin Cave?
 * ... that forensic artists at the University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of an accused witch in Scotland?