Romania entered WWI (for the SECOND time!!) one day before it finished, in 1918.


On this day in 1969, twenty years after he first released Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer Gene Autry finally received an award for the song.


The first rugby league game ever to be televised was the Second Test between Great Britain and New Zealand, played in Manchester in 1951. Great Britain won 20-19.


The 'haunted' wreck of the U.S. brig Somers , on which the stroy "Billy Budd" was based, was discovered today in 1987.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind