He was one of the most influential comedians of all time.

His last words were, "One last drink, please."

On this night a fry cook/philosopher witnessed a large cigar-shaped "mother ship" flying through the sky near Mt. Palomar in California.

He was the most popular Cajun musician of his time, but tragically his life was cut short.

How does a train robber’s corpse wind up in a carnival funhouse?

A guy brings a goat to a ballgame. What could possibly go wrong?

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.

An amateur astronomer predicted a massive storm that would leave death and destruction in its wake.

A massive explosion rocked the area around Morgan, New Jersey as an ammunition plant blew up.

Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) was brutally bitten by his co-star, a white tiger named Montecore.

Are snails able to communicate telepathically?

The UFO zoomed straight at the F-51, then at the last minute darted upward.

Scientists were able to retrieve the 18-foot chunk of a tentacle and from its size they estimate the squid to have been at least 25 feet long.

7 people died in one of the most infamous drug-tampering cases of all time.

Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning at least 8 different times.

9 men died and 7 were injured in what became one of the most famous train wrecks in American history.

Stanislav Petrov made a decision that may have averted a nuclear war - and possibly the end of the world as we know it.

A massive fireball, possibly a bolide or comet nucleus, blew up above the Vitim River Basin in Siberia.

Pieces of the ship were found with chunks of pumice and lava embedded into the wreckage.

One of the richest sunken treasures of all time found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic on this day.