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On 16 June 1976, police opened fire on Soweto schoolchildren protesting compulsory Afrikaans instruction; Sam Nzima's photograph of the dying Hector Pieterson, carried by his sister, became the image that ended apartheid's silence.

On October 19, 1944, Barney Hajiro charged two machine-gun nests and killed a sniper — alone, without orders. He was awarded the Medal of Honor 55 years later.

Tomoe Gozen beheaded at least one enemy general during the Battle of Awazu in 1184, then vanished — no grave, no confirmed death, no record of where she went after the war.

Sitting Vice President Spiro Agnew received cash in small envelopes — handed directly to him inside the White House — while simultaneously prosecuting law-and-order rhetoric on national television. He resigned October 10, 1973, pleading no contest.

In the summer of 1950, South Korea's own government executed between 60,000 and 100,000 suspected leftist civilians — teachers, farmers, prisoners — in mass graves nationwide, before the North ever reached them.

After playing his own game and feeling like a villain, Richard Garriott scrapped Ultima III's kill-everything model and invented a new goal: becoming a moral exemplar across eight virtues, with no final boss to slay.

J. Paul Getty — then the world's richest man — refused his grandson's ransom until a severed ear arrived by post. He negotiated the $17 million demand down to $2.2 million, the maximum he could deduct on taxes.

Created around 800 CE on the island of Iona, the Book of Kells contains 680 vellum pages in which no two decorated initials repeat — hidden faces, serpents, and cats nursing kittens emerge under magnification, invisible to the naked eye.

Ten canoeists paddled in pairs into Bordeaux harbour at night and limpet-mined six ships. Eight were captured or drowned; the two survivors walked 100 miles to Spain. Hitler's Commando Order had the eight shot.