The End of Shambo

In 2007 a long contentious battle was waged between British goverment officials and the the Hindu leaders of a temple who were adamantly opposed to the killing of their sacred bull.

The Pine Tar Incident

It was the top of the 9th, and the Kansas City Royals were down 4-3 to the Yankees. George Brett cracked a 2-run homer to take a 5 to 4 lead at Yankee Stadium. New York's manager, Billy Martin, approached the umpire and requested that he take a closer look at Brett's bat.

Steve Pulls a Brodie

In 1886, a Bowery bookie named Steve Brodie jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived. This amazing feat earned him instant fame, which he milked for the rest of his life.

Death in Managua

Sandinista rebels were on the cusp of taking control of Nicaragua’s capital city, Managua. Bill Stewart was a 37-year-old reporter covering the civil war for ABC.

Nadia's Perfect 10

The amazing feat came during the 1976 Montreal games where the scoreboards were not equipped to deal with a 10, so they displayed it as a 1.0.

STICKS NIX HICK PIX

It's one of the most famous headlines of all time, and it promoted a story about rural audiences rejecting Hollywood's attempts to cater to them with movies about country life.

Trinity Test

In the first successful test of an atomic weapon, the concrete and steel of the testing tower was vaporized instantly and the floor of the desert was turned into a bowl of glass 10 feet thick and 1000 feet wide.

Cosmic Blast

An extremely large solar flare (as if there's ever a small one) was followed by mind-blowing mass ejection that blasted billions of tons of atomic particles toward the Earth at 3 million miles per hour.