Operation Eagle Claw

01Parkhurst voted in the 1868 U.S. presidential election in Santa Cruz County, the first known trans man to do so in America.
02Described by contemporaries as among the finest stagecoach drivers on the California-Oregon run, handling six-horse teams in mountain snow.
03At death in 1879, a coroner's examination revealed Parkhurst's birth sex — news that reached newspapers across the country within days.

Eight Americans burned to death in the Iranian desert before a single shot was fired — a rescue mission that killed only its own rescuers, 53 hostages still chained inside Tehran.