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Horst Mahler co-founded the Red Army Faction as a leftist anti-fascist lawyer, then transformed into a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi who greeted his 2009 prison sentence with a raised-arm Hitler salute in the courtroom.

On October 24, 1929 — Black Thursday — 12.9 million shares changed hands before noon. The suicide of ruined investors became so expected that hotel clerks asked guests: 'For sleeping or jumping?'

At Chosin in November 1950, Task Force MacLean was surrounded within hours of deployment. Colonel Allan MacLean was shot, captured while delirious with wounds, and died in Chinese captivity. His men froze trying to reach him.

Vidkun Quisling seized the Norwegian government by radio announcement on the night of Germany's 1940 invasion. He was executed by firing squad in 1945 — and his surname had already entered the dictionary as the universal word for traitor.

Lee's most brilliant tactical victory was also the shot that doomed the Confederacy: returning from a night reconnaissance, Stonewall Jackson was fired upon by his own men and died eight days later.

A small boy in a cardboard crown discovers a kingdom and builds it not by conquering, but by politely knocking on doors and asking residents — farmers, bakers, warriors — if they'd like to help. They usually say yes.

In one afternoon in August 216 BCE, Hannibal's 50,000 troops encircled and killed up to 70,000 Roman soldiers — filling three bushels of gold rings stripped from dead equestrian fingers, sent to Carthage as proof.

To swing a 1984 county election in Oregon, Rajneeshees poured salmonella cultures onto ten restaurant salad bars, sickening 751 people — the first bioterror attack on U.S. soil. The plot was conceived by Ma Anand Sheela.

Joe Hayashi was shot twice and kept fighting, killing 11 Germans and destroying two gun positions in a single action near Tendola, Italy, 1945. He died days later. His Distinguished Service Cross sat in a drawer for 55 years.