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Did you know?
- ... that Brazilian Olympic gymnast Lorrane Oliveira (pictured) trained for the circus before starting gymnastics?
- ... that some estimate that maintenance of existing software costs up to nine times as much as creating it in the first place?
- ... that at age 15, Lilia Cosman moved from the United States to Romania to compete for Romania's Olympic gymnastics team?
- ... that Baubau city filed two different budgets at the same time, losing their chance at becoming the capital of Southeast Sulawesi?
- ... that in 1948 Jane Wallis Burrell became the first CIA officer to die in service?
- ... that after being freed from Buq Buq labor camp in Italian-occupied Egypt, Libyan Jewish prisoners had to walk home across the desert?
- ... that Aminata Barrow is the first female Olympic swimmer for The Gambia?
- ... that the Newton Lower Falls Branch was operated with a single electric railcar nicknamed the "Ping-Pong"?
- ... that after disappearing in 2019, a donkey is now "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?
On this day
- 1540 – King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy.
- 1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
- 1911 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began with the departure of SY Aurora from London.
- 1939 – During the excavation of a 7th-century ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archaeologists discovered a helmet (pictured) that is widely associated with King Rædwald of East Anglia.
- 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced the formal end of its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland and create a united Ireland.
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (d. 1794)
- Lucy Burns (b. 1879)
- Vida Blue (b. 1949)
- Zach Parise (b. 1984)