- June Cleaver in the TV sitcom Leave it to Beaver was played by Barbara Billingsley.
- Neil Diamond, US singer-songwriter was born in New York in 1941.
- The country second in size to size to Brazil in South America is Argentina - 2,780,400 km2/1,073,518 sq mi .
- The informal term popularly used for the Hindu-language film industry based in Mumbai, India is Bollywood.
- The coastal resort of Nice is in France.
- Princess Elizabeth was on a royal tour to Kenya when she received the news that her father, King George VI had died and she was the monarch.
- Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War with The Victoria Cross (VC) was instituted on 29 January 1856.
- The musical direction incalzando means getting faster and louder.
- The German word for Twenty is zwanig.
- The expression take with a pinch of salt means to believe in part only; have reservations.
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