He was the most popular Cajun musician of his time, but tragically his life was cut short.
He was the most popular Cajun musician of his time, but tragically his life was cut short.
After over a dozen summers living amongst the bears, Timothy Treadwell (A.K.A Grizzly Man) and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenardwas were killed and eaten by a grizzly.
Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) was brutally bitten by his co-star, a white tiger named Montecore.
One of the richest sunken treasures of all time found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic on this day.
Evel Kenievel tried to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket.
The SS Princess Alice, a fully-loaded passenger steamship, collided with the Bywell Castle, a cargo ship hauling coal.
Eastman’s criteria for a name were that it had to be “short and euphonious and likely to stick in the public’s mind.”
All hell broke loose as one of the biggest quakes to ever hit the east coast left 60 people dead.
Max Factor was a cosmetics pioneer who rose from rags to riches and became famous around the world.
In 1907 two massive sections of the bridge snapped off and plunged over 300 feet into the Saint Lawrence River.
In 1859 a semi-retired train conductor named Edwin Drake engineered the world's first successful oil drilling operation.
Lon Chaney is most remembered for his iconic roles as Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and as Erik in The Phantom of the Opera.
An Austrian girl was held captive for 8 years by a creepy loner named Wolfgang Priklopil.
One of the most infamous brawls in baseball history happened at Candlestick Park during a game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The exiled Russian Bolshevik was assassinated by a Soviet agent named Ramon Mercader.
These were the first living creatures (that we know of) that journeyed into space and returned alive.