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Carmine Galante was shot through the eye at Joe and Mary's restaurant in Bushwick on July 12, 1979 — the cigar clenched in his teeth remained lit in the crime-scene photograph.

One baby Scipionyx, dead 113 million years ago, still holds its liver, intestines, and windpipe in anatomical position. It is the only dinosaur fossil with soft organs visible to the naked eye.

On July 12, 1979, a crate of disco records exploded on the Comiskey Park field between doubleheader games; fans tore up the turf, and the White Sox forfeited the second game to the Tigers.

Pingfang was a self-contained city — barracks, airstrip, crematorium, and 150 buildings — built by 15,000 conscripted Chinese laborers, most of whom were executed afterward to preserve secrecy.

Marko Miljanov, a Montenegrin clan chief who personally led feud raids and tribal wars, retired to write a 1901 treatise on heroism and humanity — a book still assigned in Montenegrin schools.

Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations in Greek, on military campaign, with no intention of publishing. The book — private, furious, self-lacerating — survived because someone ignored his wishes.

A craft-store chain generating $7 billion annually tithed tens of millions to build a biblical museum in Washington D.C. — then watched federal agents seize 5,500 smuggled Iraqi antiquities from its own collection.

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.

Jim Jones rehearsed mass suicide with fake poison for years before making it real. On November 18, 1978, 918 died — 276 of them children. A gun was found in Jones's hand.