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... that in 1994 Kazuyoshi Akiyama (pictured) conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with Japanese musicians?
... that a Michigan TV station once aired a program speculating on Richard Nixon's resignation—two days after he had already resigned?
... that the impact of the Charlottetown meteorite was the first to be recorded on video and audio?
... that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon?
... that the Fun Lounge police raid is considered the main cause for the formation of Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights group in Chicago?
... that the 8-Bit Big Band won Nintendo their first Grammy Award?
... that a person required intensive care after being splashed with salt water by a beluga whale?
... that Alia Fischer led the first women's college basketball team to achieve back-to-back undefeated seasons?
... that among the sources for early Irish law are judgments on bees, on the sea, on sports, on blood-lying, and on inadvertence; judgements which are wrong, false, shrouded, and from a god; the paths to judgement and to distraint; the shaving of the court; the branched purchase; a glossary; and a lot of lists of seven?