One of the earliest aviation pioneers was a Brazilian named Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

He tried to kill the king, but his skull and brain wound up on display in an Italian museum.

Robbers tossed money in a creek and the beavers got to work.

Harry Turner was the first man to die as a result of a football injury.

He is the oldest dog ever verified by Guinness World Records.

The Korean boxer absorbed what seemed like a neverending volley of punches.

The explosion tossed rotting chunks of whale guts and blubber over 800 feet away.

Through her work as a cook she infected over 50 people with typhoid fever. 3 of them were confirmed to have died.

7 months into a tortuous trek, a journalist approached a sickly old man who was living among the natives.

A “Day of Fate” in Germany as so many consequential events - triumphs and tragedies - seem to fall on November 9th.

With 2 seconds left, and losing 17 to 16, Tom Dempsey kicked the longest field goal in NFL history.

This railroad engineer drove a burning train loaded with dynamite into history as one of Mexico’s most celebrated heroes.

A paraglider made a surprise landing at the heavyweight title fight.

The world's oldest cat was an English tabby named Ma.

She moved in a strange bunny walk where she held her hands out in front of her like paws.

5 people were shot dead by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Late one night, a UFO stops a car on the interstate and a tall grinning stranger emerges.

It has been described as the “Mona Lisa” of landscape photography.

Scientists believe it originated from the asteroid main belt, somewhere between Mars and Jupiter.

The son of Pope Alexander VI threw a wild soiree in the Papal Palace, and according to some accounts the Pope may have been in attendance.