Husband too late to prevent Judy Garland’s lonely death
Mickey Deans made a terrible discovery 50 years ago today, when he had to climb in through a bathroom window after receiving no response from his wife Judy Garland
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Baseball star Lou Gehrig had a terrible season in 1938 but when things got worse in 1939 he discovered the reason was that he had contracted an incurable disease
How a Sydney bottle sniffer became a star
The bottle sniffer in the Sydney soft drink factory did a bit of modelling on the side and it was his habit of taking off his shirt that earned him his big break
Bootleggers’ need for speed inspired NASCAR
Charlotte Speedway was the venue for an exciting new concept in motor racing, designed to find the best driver rather than the best car
Guillotine’s last public execution was a debacle
A crowd gathered in front of Saint-Pierre prison in Versailles 80 years ago today to see the last public execution by guillotine
Henry VIII’s bastard son a real life Jon Snow
Bastard Henry FitzRoy was ultimately denied the throne despite enjoying the favour of his father
Demon barber’s horror story a cut above the rest
In 1846 writers Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer hit upon a recipe for a bestseller about a demonic barber who murders his clients and has them baked into pies
Hitler’s winged bombs were war’s first drones
In the early hours of June 13, 1944, a strange sound broke the silence. It was the noise of the first V-1 “buzz bomb” landing in England
Father kept Anne’s voice alive by sharing diaries
When a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam began keeping a diary on her 13th birthday she could never have suspected the impact it might have
Ace lived fast, died young and entered music legend
When Paul Simon sang a song about the violent death of singer Johnny Ace he added to the legend of the short-lived rocker
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