Manson set on path to murder in childhood
A scruffy bearded cult leader turned from petty crime to murder based on his strange ideas about a global race war
Today In History
Alice steered her crew into legend on epic drive
Today it would be considered a merry jaunt but 110 years ago when Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco, it had been an epic journey from New York by car
Beatles strode out of studio and into legend
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr walked out of their studio and into one of pop music’s most recognised images
Standover man murdered at rival gang’s party
When a well-dressed man crashed a party in Darlinghurst it ended in a gunfight which ended the life of notorious gangster Guido Calletti
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Warby still ‘fastest man on water’
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French WWI flying ace immortalised by tennis
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Passion for planes took first man to the moon
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Botched Somali military op shook US and world
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The Seagull takes flight after bumpy first airing
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