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- ... that the Republic of China produced coins featuring emperor Yuan Shikai (pictured) for decades after his demise?
- ... that although Armond Seidler invented the pugil stick for military training purposes, it later found use in the television show American Gladiators?
- ... that two cosmetic companies engaged in a "rose war" with advertising campaigns based around the song "You're More Beautiful Than a Rose" and the film The Rose of Versailles?
- ... that Fede Vigevani once presented an awards ceremony in which he won an award?
- ... that the construction of the Jubilee Bridge was featured in the 1982 documentary about the A9 road reconstruction?
- ... that Olympic judoka Edmilson Pedro is nicknamed Bicho Papão, which means "the bogeyman"?
- ... that "New York's wealthiest janitor" lived atop the Bergdorf Goodman Building?
- ... that Henry Charles Swan, a law graduate from Oxford, spent more than 25 years living on a yacht in a stream in New Zealand?
- ... that in her song "Slim Pickins", Sabrina Carpenter supposedly settles for someone who does not know the difference between "their", "there", and "they are"?
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- At least 37 people are killed and more than 3,200 others injured after electronic devices used by Hezbollah members explode in Lebanon and Syria.
- Amid widespread protests, Mexico ratifies constitutional changes that will see the federal judiciary chosen by popular vote.
- Former president of Peru Alberto Fujimori (pictured) dies at the age of 86.
- Flooding following a dam collapse in Borno State, Nigeria, leaves at least 30 people dead.
On this day...
September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- 1692 – Salem witch trials: Giles Corey was crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, reportedly asking the sheriff for "more weight" during his execution.
- 1846 – Near La Salette-Fallavaux in southeastern France, shepherd children Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud reported a Marian apparition, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue pictured).
- 1940 – World War II: Polish resistance leader Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to Auschwitz to gather intelligence.
- 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
- 1995 – Industrial Society and Its Future, the manifesto of American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, was published in The Washington Post almost three months after it was submitted.
- Theodore of Tarsus (d. 690)
- Paterson Clarence Hughes (b. 1917)
- Judith Kanakuze (b. 1959)
- Wu Zhonghua (d. 1992)
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