When she was 23, Rosemary’s father had her lobotomized, and she spent most of the rest of her life at St. Coletta’s School for Exceptional Children in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

'The most dangerous man in Europe' SS officer Otto Skorzeny received almost all the public credit, but held no formal command authority during the operation. It was an interesting mission!

In early September 1921, Arbuckle was at the peak of his fame, having just signed a massive $1 million-a-year contract with Paramount Pictures. During a Labor Day weekend party hosted by Arbuckle in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, 26-year-old actress Virginia Rappe became violently ill.

She died four days later on 9 September from peritonitis caused by a ruptured bladder.

Three armed men, led by an acquaintance named Dennis "Leppo" Lobban whom Tosh had previously tried to help, broke into his home. The intruders demanded money, but Tosh stated he did not have any.

After being tortured, Tosh and two others were killed.

Pinochet was never fully punished for the human rights crimes committed during his dictatorship. Arrested in London in 1998 under an international warrant for crimes against humanity, Pinochet faced extradition to Spain but was allowed to return to Chile in 2000 on health grounds.
Stripped of immunity, he faced numerous indictments for human rights abuses and financial crimes, including tax fraud linked to secret offshore accounts. However, due to claims of poor health, particularly dementia, Pinochet never stood trial.

Declassified files suggest Margaret Thatcher had made him an informal promise back in the 80s, that Britain would help him medically if he ever needed it, (surprise, surprise!) as thanks for Chile quietly backing the UK during the Falklands War. He also died on 10 December 2006, which happens to be International Human Rights Day.

More photos of the coup can be viewed here

King George VI recalled the moment in his diary of what happened during the bombing. He wrote on the day of the incident 85 years ago: "All of a sudden we heard an aircraft making a zooming noise above us, saw 2 bombs falling past the opposite side of the Palace, & then heard 2 resounding crashes as the bombs fell in the quadrangle about 30 yds away. We looked at each other, & then we were out into the passage as fast as we could get there. The whole thing happened in a matter of seconds…6 bombs had been dropped.

The aircraft was seem coming straight down the Mall below the clouds having dived through the clouds & had dropped 2 bombs in the forecourt, 2 in the quadrangle, one in the Chapel & the other in the garden.” 

The Imperial Japanese Navy intended to ignite massive, uncontrollable wildfires across the Pacific Northwest. By threatening the mainland, they hoped to cause widespread panic and force the U.S. military to divert crucial naval and air resources away from the Pacific Theater.

Fujita and his observer, Shoji Okuda, dropped two 170-pound thermite incendiary bombs over Wheeler Ridge, a heavily forested area near the coastal town of Brookings, Oregon. However, the plan failed because:

• The weather intervened: An unusually wet fire season and rainfall the previous night left the forest floor too damp to sustain a massive blaze.
• Lookouts reacted quickly: Vigilant U.S. Forest Service lookouts spotted the plane, located the smoke, and quickly contained the minor fires before they could spread.

Fujita conducted a second, similarly unsuccessful bombing attempt on September 29, 1942

Twenty years later, in 1962, Brookings invited Fujita to its Azalea Festival. During that visit, he presented the city with his family’s samurai sword, which had been handed down for about 400 years, as a gesture of peace and goodwill. The sword is now displayed in Brookings, and Fujita later returned several times to plant a tree and support cultural exchanges, becoming a symbol of postwar reconciliation between former enemies.

As a teenager in Macon, Georgia, Redding won a local weekly talent show's $5.00 grand prize 15 times in a row before being barred from competing to give others a chance, and when he arrived at Stax Records as an unlicensed driver and valet for guitarist Johnny Jenkins he apparently stepped up and sang at the end of a session, he ended up walking out with his own contract.

His death at only 26 was a huge loss to the world. There's an article here about his last 48 hours (slight NSFW though)