Killing of Osama bin Laden

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Fritz Haber , 1918

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The immortal Zhang shooting at the Tiangou

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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.

At Entebbe, hijackers sorted 248 passengers by passport — Jews to one side, non-Jews released. The remaining hostages were held in a terminal as ransom for 53 prisoners held across four countries. Israeli commandos flew 2,500 miles to answer.

Ottoman sultans kept Angora rabbits as living luxury objects in the Topkapi Palace; their wool — harvested monthly by hand — was spun into garments reserved for imperial gift-giving.

Fritz Haber synthesized nitrogen from air in 1909, feeding a billion people who could not otherwise exist. He then personally supervised the first chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915, killing thousands.

Tsutomu Miyazaki killed four girls aged four to seven near Tokyo between 1988 and 1989, ate one victim's hands, and mailed her charred bones to her family in a box with photographs. Police found 5,763 videotapes stacked in his room.

In Chinese myth, the celestial dog Tiangou stole fire from heaven and delivered it to humanity, arriving with his tail scorched permanently black. He also devours the sun and moon during eclipses — drums must be beaten to make him spit them out.

After a near-death fever in 1776, the Public Universal Friend declared the person born Jemima Wilkinson had died and only a genderless spiritual vessel remained — then gathered thousands of followers across colonial New England and founded a settlement in upstate New York.

Francisco Macías Nguema killed or exiled roughly one-third of Equatorial Guinea's 300,000 citizens, banned the word 'intellectual,' and had the country's last lubricating oil poured into the ocean to prevent escape by boat.

Vermin Supreme has campaigned in every U.S. presidential race since 1992 wearing a rubber boot as a hat, promising mandatory tooth-brushing laws and one free government pony for every American citizen.