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2 October 2025
- 00:00, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- ... that musical theatre actress Josephine Hall (pictured) became famous for performing a song that she purposefully sang high and off-key?
- ... that Northwest Marine Iron Works produced the last sternwheel steam tugboat operated in the United States?
- ... that Elias Peleti is said to have been the most forgettable Latin patriarch of Jerusalem in a century?
- ... that the UK's best-selling single of 2013 has been described as a "rape anthem"?
- ... that when Marianne Angermann earned her university entrance, the pronouns on her printed diploma were altered manually?
- ... that the Ostjuden antisemitic stereotype was used to describe Jews from Eastern Europe by both non-Jewish Germans and assimilated German Jews?
- ... that a lowly garrison soldier was responsible for relocating the capital of the Han dynasty?
- ... that Nigeria's independence on 1 October 1960 was marked by the lowering of the Union Jack and the raising of the country's new flag before 40,000 people at the Lagos Race Course?
- ... that Ida Barber campaigned against corsets in her fashion journalism?
1 October 2025
- 00:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- ... that in 1919 a restaurant with vending machines was opened in the 17th-century Great Armoury (pictured) in Gdańsk?
- ... that Livingstone Luboobi claimed that he chose to teach himself double mathematics at A-level because there was no teacher available?
- ... that Aso Tateno Dam started construction in 1983 and was only completed in 2024?
- ... that the family of a missing woman originally hid her that she was transgender to avoid prejudice during the search?
- ... that a mongrel lover wrote a typology of the dogs and a series of children's books based on them?
- ... that a Chinese art student who murdered her lover was released after only five years because the Japanese invaded?
- ... that Arthur Conan Doyle defeated Wilfrid Edgecombe at billiards every time he played him at The Harrogate Club?
- ... that the presumed skull of Menabe king Toera was returned to Madagascar by France almost 128 years after his death?
- ... that 83 manuscripts from Sozomeno da Pistoia's collection, which numbered 110 in 1460, have been found scattered across Europe?