In 1871, 125 lives were lost when one of the Staten Island ferries exploded.
All in Death
Empire State Disaster
A B-25 bomber on a routine transport mission slammed into the Empire State Building.
Hero Boiled Alive
Others warned him not to dive in, but he told them, "Like hell I won't!"
Triskaidekaphobia
He dreaded the number 13...and as he feared, he died on Friday the 13th.
Bad Idea
Garry Hoy's fatal plunge is now a gold standard in the realm of urban legends.
Death in the Mess
Dale Buis and Chester Ovnand are the first of over 58,000 names on the Vietnam War Memorial.
Soapy Smith
He was one of the most infamous con artists on the western frontier.
All-American Hero
One by one, three boys fell off the underwater cliff. None of them could swim, and neither could Joe Delaney.
Last of the Great Auks
It was an excellent swimmer, but rather clumsy on land, which made it easy prey for eagles, polar bears and humans.
Heaven's Gate
This was the day that police found the bodies of 39 members of a religious cult based in San Diego County.
The Deadly Beat
Jean-Baptiste Lully, the Italian composer whose fast-tempoed music livened up the court of France's Louis XIV, died on this day after a 3-month battle with an infection that started with a smashed toe.
Attack of the Crocodiles
It was on this day in what is now Burma, that hundreds of Japanese soldiers were attacked and eaten by crocodiles.
Bad Day at Boroughbridge
This was the day that Humphrey de Bohun, the 4th Earl of Hereford met his particularly gruesome fate.
Amy Spain
The last "legally" executed slave in America was a seventeen-year-old girl named Amy Spain.
U.S.S Princeton
An exploding cannon killed 8 people, including members of President John Tyler's cabinet.
The Pope and the Sneeze
On this day Pope Gregory the Great decreed that the proper way to respond to someone sneezing was to say, "God bless you."
The Parachute Cape
It was on this day that an Austrian tailor/inventor fell to his death from the Eiffel Tower.
The Four Chaplains
On this day four men of different faiths gave their lives so that others might live.
Mountain of the Dead
It was on this night that 9 Russian hikers lost their lives in a bizarre incident that remains one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries.
La Goulue
Her legendary mastery of the Cancan combined with her wild and unrestrained antics made her the toast of Paris!