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... that James Buchanan helped to open talks over buying Alaska by spreading a rumor that Mormons were planning to emigrate there?

... that William Ruhlmann of AllMusic thought that the English-language version of "an enormous French hit" seemed to "drag along for most of its length"?

... that Lucy Daniels wrote and completed her debut novel while being treated at a psychiatric hospital?

... that Julie d'Aubigny, the most well-known 17th-century female fencer, fenced three noblemen in the same evening after kissing the lady whom they were courting?

... that small leads were banned from Bonaparte Lake due to mating loons?

A leap second was a one-second adjustment occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) between 1972 and 2016, to accommodate the difference between International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured precisely by atomic clocks, and observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation.

From 6 to 12 October 2026, the Houthis in Yemen launched a series of ballistic missile and drone attacks on three airports in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 370 others. It is the deadliest series of attacks in the country since the Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings in May 2015, and is the deadliest of the attacks on the Gulf Arab states since the beginning of the 2026 Iran war.

Navanetham Pillay is a South African jurist who served as the high commissioner for human rights of the United Nations from 2008 to 2014. A South African of Tamil origin, Pillay was the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa. She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She is to be awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Anne Patricia Carson is a Canadian academic and author. Born in Toronto, she graduated from the University of Toronto and became a professor and lecturer at several universities since 1979. Throughout her career she has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing. She has taught at the University of Calgary, Princeton University, McGill University, University of Michigan, and New York University. Carson has written more than twenty books, including collections of essays and poetry, as well as translations of ancient Greek tragedies.

Margaret Elaine Hamilton was an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded the software companies Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986 — both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.