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
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
Seventy years ago Australia was shivering through a harsh winter because of a coal strike, but while houses were cold the political climate was heating up
It took an Australian inventor to give women a comfortable alternative to the form of fashion torture known as the corset
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
IN the end it was three words that identified Ted Kaczynski, “the most intellectual serial killer” America ever produced.
FORGERY, bigamy, impersonation: Opportunist Donald Roy Tait had tried the lot before an attempted move to the big-league introduced him to households across Australia.
AS the 40th generation with direct descent from Prophet Muhammad, 65 years ago cousins took the throne in two Arab states.
Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura completed the first solo trek to the North Pole 40 years ago.
STRIDING out to bat Jack Fingleton looked bulkier than usual, because he had padded himself under his shirt to take on Bodyline tactics
A HOMELESS man who took his life became part of a bizarre plot to fool the Germans using a dead body, false identity and faked war plans
MOST people had no choice about being sent to Auschwitz but Witold Pilecki volunteered, stayed for two years then he escaped.
THE public gallery at Central Criminal Court was packed in 1954 to hear evidence against comic book artist Leonard Lawson.
POETRY was just one of many pastimes favoured by Diggers in World War I.
THE Germans were nothing if not persistent. They had failed to break through to Amiens in late March and early April 1918. So on the morning of April 24, a century ago today, they unleashed their secret weapon.
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