This day in history: Did you know...

Sunday 21 December 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that Thorleiv Røhn (pictured), a gold medal–winning Norwegian gymnast at the 1906 Intercalated Games, was convicted of treason after the Second World War?
... that Kolejka, a popular Polish educational board game about shortages in the communist shortage economy, has itself been in short supply?
... that a New York Times Magazine writer described Ellen Page's performance in the 2005 film Hard Candy as her artistic breakthrough performance that "almost no one noticed"?
... that William of Orange stayed in Gayton Hall, Wirral, in 1690 on his way to Ireland?
... that the 2014 Swedish Cabinet crisis led to the planning of the first extra election in Sweden since 1958?
... that Richard Dawson was inspired to write The Glass Trunk after performing a database search in Tyne and Wear archives for "death"?
... that the owners of the Cereal Killer Cafe came up with the idea for the business after being hung over?