Mary, the only surviving legitimate child of King James V, was six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. She spent most of her childhood in France while Scotland was ruled by regents.

In 1901, Emil von Behring of Germany won the Nobel Prize for Medicine "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths."

The highest current denomination is the $100 bill. The highest bill ever printed, however, was a $100,000 note that was printed from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It was used only for official transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the front.

Unveiled on July 8, 1982 and introduced in the United States on August 9, it was the first new brand since 1886 to use the Coca-Cola trademark.

In 1935, the Commissioner of New York City's Sewers, Teddy May, reported that several inspectors had spotted alligators in the city's underground tunnels and set out to rid the city of the gators. No sightings were filed during the campaign, and he declared the sewers "safe" once again. In the 1950s, stories began to resurface, involving families who flushed pet alligators down the toilet when they got too big. The alligators would grow to enormous sizes from eating sewer rats and garbage and become albino due to the lack of sunlight. No actual proof of alligators in the sewers, albino or otherwise, has ever surfaced.