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Marcus O'Day

The crater O'Day on the Moon is named after him, as is the "Marcus D. O'Day award".


2009 World Port Tournament

Originally, USA Baseball would send an All-Star team from the Great South League, but due to missing papers, the team had to withdrew from the tournament, one day before starting.

2011 Melbourne Cup

The winning jockey, Frenchman Christophe Lemaire, had arrived in Australia less than a day previously as a late replacement for Craig Williams.

AAC Middle Wallop

After D-Day, both the 67th RG moved to its Advanced Landing Ground at Le Molay-Littry (ALG A-9) and IX FC Headquarters moved to Les Obeaux, France in late June 1944 ending the USAAF presence at Middle Wallop.

Adam Macrow

Adams formula ford title was the first title for the Australian manufacturer of Spectrum Cars, which to this day have run drivers such as Mark Winterbottom and John Martin

Akuji the Heartless

The game centres on the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander the Underworld.

Ann Wilson

On November 22, 2012, Wilson sang an original arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner", accompanied by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, at the beginning of the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Avro 536

In service at Blackpool, Avro 536s flown by three pilots were able to fly around 500 passengers on their first day of operation.

Burdell

George P. Burdell, fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke and continuously enrolled to this day

Cabramatta High School

The school's successful annual Peace Day celebrations continued to deliver warm welcomes to recipients of the Sydney Peace Prize, including Indian social justice and environmental activist, eco-feminist and author Vandana Shiva in 2010, American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky in 2011, as well as Zimbabwean senator Sekai Holland in 2012.

Catherine Petre, Baroness Petre

When her son came of age and got married in 1732, Dowager Lady Petre finally accepted the proposal of Charles Stourton, whose first proposal came on the same day as Lord Petre's.

Cimpa

Cimpa are traditionally consumed on the sixth day of the Kerja Tahun festival.

CJMS

It broadcasts on 1040 kHz with a daytime power of 10,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a class B station, using a directional antenna with the same directional pattern day and night to protect WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.

Constant Martin

His Clavioline would be used by famous artists of the day such as The Beatles, Del Shannon, and The Tornados.

Damon and Debbie

The couple visit Morecambe, with Goth Papadum-packer Jenny (Michelle Holmes), who Debbie had met at the open day, and her husband, computer programmer Kirk (Ian Ormsby-Knox).

David Twohill

Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.

Erik Bodom

Bodom was born in Vestby, and was educated in Christiania (modern-day Oslo), but concerned himself more with drawing than his studies.

Fedlim Mac Giolla Seanáin

Latter-day bearers of the name include the film-maker, Alan Gilsenan and netball player Selina Gilsenan.

Freddie King

In 1993 by proclamation from the Texas Governor Ann Richards September 3, 1993, was declared Freddie King Day.

Gene Boyer

He led the restoration of the VH-3A "Sea King" helicopter, tail number 150617, that served as Army One that day.

Harry S. Truman Supreme Court candidates

On September 19, 1945, Truman nominated Burton, who was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on the same day by voice vote, without hearing or debate.

Hayden Lake, Idaho

The Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet flowed south from Canada, carving the basin of present-day Lake Pend Oreille and damming the Clark Fork river.

Kingsbury family

Sarah Kingsberry was the first family member born in the New World, and was born in 1635 in modern day Boston.

Law enforcement in Poland

In Poland, the national police service Policja is directly responsible to the central government, and whilst it operates with an organisational structure that allows voivodeship commands to exist, the regional authorities do not have any major say in law enforcement policy, and cannot affect the day-to-day operations of their local force.

Linda Lovelace for President

After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety while dating David Winters of West Side Story fame, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony with Winters and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon.

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

One day soon after Andy's homecoming, his mother Emily observes him looking at store window displays of wedding rings and baby clothing, and suspects that her son must be in love.

Lydia Reid

Reid retired after serving her last day in office on November 30, 2007, and her successor Donald Culliver assumed office on December 1, 2007.

Maria of Swabia

Sometime before 22 August 1215, she married as his first wife Henry, heir to the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) and Lothier.

Mehmet Ali Birand

Birand began hosting a political show titled 32. Gün (The 32nd Day), which was first on TRT in 1985 and then moved to other private TV channels as CNN Türk and Show TV.

Mount Lawley, Western Australia

In addition to MLSHS, the suburb hosts the Anglican girls' school Perth College, a private K-12 campus for both day and boarding students, and two primary schools, being Mount Lawley Primary School and St Paul's Primary School.

My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith

After realizing it has been seven years to the day they "did it", Smith recounts how he first met his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith.

Nancy Bea

From the late 1980s to the present day, Bea– alongside announcers Vin Scully and Rick Monday– became great crowd favorites at Dodger Stadium.

One Day, All Children

One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (ISBN 1586481797) is the first book by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America.

Pasarét

The first vehicle of the Budapest Cog-wheel Railway ran from 4 p.m. on June 24, 1874, and regular traffic began on the following day.

Phoenix Academy

Phoenix Hebrew Academy, a Jewish day school in Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Phyllanthus emblica

According to Hindu tradition, Adi Shankara of Kerala composed and recited the Kanakadhara stotram in praise of Mahalakshmi to make a poor Brahmin lady get wealth, in return for a single amla presented to him as bhiksha on an auspicious dwadashi day.

Pope Dionysius of Alexandria

Only one original letter survives to this day; the remaining letters are excerpted in the works of Eusebius.

RawFaith

Two people had been rescued from the ship by a helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod the previous day.

Red Hare

Lü Bu rode this horse during a battle in Changshan (常山; around present-day Shijiazhuang, Hebei) in 193, in which he helped another warlord Yuan Shao defeat his rival Zhang Yan.

Seleucia at the Zeugma

The bishop Eusebius of Samosata ruled a day's journey from his see, even to Zeugma.

Sophene

After unifying the region with his kingdom in the early 8th century BC, king Argishtis I of Urartu resettled many of its inhabitants in his newly built city of Erebuni (modern day Armenian capital Yerevan).

Takahata, Yamagata

The area of present-day Takahata was part of ancient Dewa Province.

Terry Waldo

Against the current tide of rock and roll, the young ragtimer played with Turk Murphy's Jazz Band, and studied with other prominent jazz musicians such as Pops Foster, Lu Watters, Wally Rose, and Clancy Hayes, all the while living in a room above Mcgoon's for one dollar per day.

The Given Day

The notable historic ball player Babe Ruth is featured as a recurring character in The Given Day, along with other historic figures.

Thirteenth stroke of the clock

The most famous is the first line in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four when it starts with, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.".

Tom Sidwell

However while travelling to the ground – The Oval in Surrey – for the next day's play, he became lost on the London Underground and was given out while mid-transit.

Treaty of Prairie du Chien

By this treaty, the tribes ceded to the United States an area in present-day northwestern Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin, as well as the areas currently occupied by the cities of Wilmette and Evanston.

Walt Schmotolocha

That day, he scored a goal in the 61st minute of a 2-2 tie with Mexico in 1966 FIFA World Cup qualifier.

Waydowntown

The radio station CJAY 92 that plays "Start A Rumour Day" throughout the film is a real rock station in Calgary, with the station's actual DJs (the DJ "Bob", is Bob Steele, no longer with the station).

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

The next day they chose the Palatine Elector as their king at Rhens, though Wenceslaus refused to acknowledge this successor's decade-long reign.

WRNO-FM

On April 1, 2008, the station switched to "Rush Radio," all day repeats of The Rush Limbaugh Show and a tape loop of Rush's theme song, the instrumental from My City Was Gone by The Pretenders, during times when the show was not playing.


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