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Did you know?
On this day ...

Did you know?

On this day ...

Damage from Storm Ulysses to West End Pier, Morecambe

... that Storm Ulysses (damage pictured) in 1903 was so named because its effects were described in James Joyce's novel Ulysses?
... that Tamurbek Dawletschin wrote one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war, 3 million of whom died in German captivity?
... that a class-action lawsuit was filed against Spotify following the discontinuation of the Car Thing?
... that Singaporean former lawyer David Yong learned Korean and moved to South Korea to become a K-pop singer?
... that during the Tunisian campaign in World War II, crews carried an AMES Type 6 radar set across a swamp to allow them to spy on Luftwaffe aircraft running supplies into Tunis?
... that Gwent Broadcasting, at the time the smallest Independent Local Radio station in Britain, lasted less than two years?
... that Valentin Bontus won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in Formula Kite, while Toni Vodišek won the first silver medal?
... that during the Khalji Revolution, Sultan Qaiqabad was wrapped in a carpet and thrown into the Yamuna river?
... that the small fish species Poecilia vandepolli solves food shortage problems by eating its own offspring?

September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973)

Norodom Sihanouk

1645 – English Civil War: Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath.
1869 – Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet.
1890 – Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
1941 – Operation Barbarossa: A Wehrmacht training event known as the Mogilev Conference began, marking an increase in violence against Jews and other civilians in the areas under General Max von Schenckendorff's command.
1993 – Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.

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