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Assassination of Miles of Plancy

... that a contemporary chronicler does not dare say who assassinated Miles of Plancy (event pictured), but a later source implicates an in-law?
... that the 1862 Brooklyn riot involved a mob mainly comprising Irish Americans targeting African-American workers at a tobacco factory?
... that A Foreign Sound includes a song that Caetano Veloso called "a fake American song written by a Brazilian", and a song he called "a fake Brazilian song written by Americans"?
... that while George Rolph sued six of his assailants in the Ancaster incident for £1000 each, the trial only awarded him £20 from two of the assailants?
... that a government had to intervene after 80 percent of all personal loans taken out were to cover wedding expenses?
... that Carlos Miguel Buela repeatedly disobeyed sanctions placed on him by the Holy See?
... that an Alaska TV station used home movie cameras to shoot newsfilm?
... that novelist Hal Clement created the planet Mesklin in 1953 based on the real-world suspected detection of an extrasolar planet?
... that the dog Private Chesty was demoted from private first class for willful destruction of government property?