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Fast facts: The Americans lost the Battle of Bunker Hill when they ran out of gunpowder and had to retreat. The average age at which America's presidents have taken office is 54. When a man died in ancient Egypt, the females in his family would smear their heads and faces with mud and wander through the city beating themselves and tearing off their clothes. A female pharaoh was unknown in Egypt before Hatshepsut, who had herself portrayed in male costume, with a beard and without breasts. A pin-up photo of Rita Hayworth adorned the first test bomb dropped on Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands in July 1946. The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis, Mo. In three hours, it tore through the town on March 18, 1925, leaving a 980-foot-wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees and overturned cars. It left 823 people dead and almost 3,000 injured. The North Atlantic Deep Water Current is an oceanic "river" that carries 20 times more water than all the rivers of the world put together.

 

On this date: In 1851, Northwestern University in Chicago was chartered. In 1915, the first U.S. ship was lost in World War I. William P. Frye was carrying wheat to the United Kingdom in his boat. In 1935, Iceland became the first country to legalize abortion. In 1956, Elvis Presley made his first TV appearance on the "Dorsey Brothers Stage Show." In 1959, the Soviet Union gave the United States its first international basketball loss by winning 62-37. In 1978, "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premiered on ABC TV. In 1984, a record 295,000 dominoes were toppled in Fuerth, West Germany. In 1994, a helicopter crashed into an office building in San Jose, Calif., killing one.

 

Quotable... "They are not POWs. They will not be determined to be POWs." -Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the status of detainees from the war on terrorism being held in Cuba.