The exiled Russian Bolshevik was assassinated by a Soviet agent named Ramon Mercader.
Belka and Strelka
These were the first living creatures (that we know of) that journeyed into space and returned alive.
Let Them Eat Grass
Many regard this comment as the spark that ignited the Dakota War of 1862, an incredibly bloody campaign of terror that claimed the lives of up to 800 white settlers.
Deal with the Devil
A priest named Urbain Grandier was burned alive after a notorious trial that included a remarkable piece of evidence - a document signed by Satan himself.
Double Eagle II
Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman crossed the Atlantic in a helium balloon
The Great Flydini
Did you know comedian Steve Martin was also a master illusionist?
Ghost on Film?
In 1991, Mari Huff and some fellow members of the Ghost Research Society were in the Bachelor's Grove Cemetery in Illinois when they captured an eerie image of someone or something sitting on a tombstone.
Adios Amigo
Jim Reeves was one of the smoothest crooners on the airwaves in the fifties and early sixties. His velvety voice helped establish the Nashville Sound.
Outbreak
In 1976, Air Force veteran Ray Brennan became the first of 34 people to die from a mysterious illness at a Legionnaire's convention in Philadelphia.
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.
Death at the Hyatt
114 people were killed and over 200 were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri.
Miss Macao
In 1948, 25 people died in the first known hijacking of a commercial plane.
"We begin bombing in 5 minutes."
In 1984, President Reagan improvised a Cold War joke that caused at least one division of the Soviet Army to go on alert.
Le Paradis Massacre
97 British troops were gunned down in cold blood after they surrendered to German forces.
Frog Invasion
A massive migration of frogs closed off a major Greek highway as "millions" of the amphibians massed on the roadway.
Squalus Goes Down
The sub plummeted 243 feet and slammed into the ocean floor.
Columbus and the Eclipse
Stranded in Jamaica and on the brink of starvation, Christopher Columbus hatched an ingenious plan.
The Flying Lawnmower Incident
A 40-pound airplane shaped like a lawnmower took off from the endzone and veered over the crowd.
Biggest Turtle
This amazingly large leatherback measured 9 feet from snout to tail and he weighed over 2000 pounds.
Death of a Bigot
George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party. He believed that all blacks should be shipped back to Africa and that all the Jews should be sterilized.