Killing of Osama bin Laden

gnostek

1 / 15

gnostek

1 / 15

gnostek

1 / 21

gnostek

1 / 24

gnostek

1 / 3

gnostek

1 / 5

gnostek

1 / 4

gnostek

1 / 39

gnostek

1 / 9

Flick ↓ for more

A stealth Black Hawk — technology so classified it didn't officially exist — crashed in bin Laden's courtyard. SEALs blew it apart with thermite charges, but the tail section survived, photographed by the world.

On the night of June 30, 1934, Hitler ordered SS squads to shoot SA commanders in their beds and hotel rooms. Ernst Röhm, his oldest political ally, was offered a pistol to spare himself — and refused.

Greenwood, Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street,' burned for 18 hours in June 1921 while residents fired back from rooftops. Over 1,200 homes were destroyed. The official death toll was never confirmed — possibly 300.

Mugabe's hyperinflation peaked in November 2008 at 89.7 sextillion percent monthly; Zimbabwe issued a $100 trillion banknote that could not buy a bus ticket, while life expectancy fell to 37 — the world's lowest.

A spectator's fist on the Puy-de-Dôme cracked Eddy Merckx's cheekbone during the 1975 Tour — the blow that broke the greatest cyclist alive and handed Bernard Thévenet the race.

Erected after 193 AD, the Column of Marcus Aurelius depicts Romans burning German villages and beheading captives in a 190-metre spiral. It was so ignored that a hermit lived inside it for years.

Nintendo packed a cheap plastic steering wheel into every Mario Kart Wii box, and 37 million families snapped it around their Wii remotes — suddenly the living room floor was a race circuit and everyone had a wheel.

In a 1947 memo, MacArthur's command confirmed immunity for all Unit 731 officers. The general who tried Japanese officers for war crimes at Manila simultaneously shielded Japan's worst war criminals from Tokyo.

God wagers with Satan over a loyal man's breaking point, then obliterates Job's ten children as collateral. Job gets replacement children at the end. Is that a restoration or a receipt?