In June 1985, Hezbollah hijackers seized TWA Flight 847 and held 153 passengers hostage for 17 days. On board was Greek pop star Demis Roussos. This is the full story.

On 18 June 1984, South Yorkshire Police cavalry-charged thousands of miners at Orgreave. What followed was a frame-up, a collapsed trial, and a cover-up that went all the way to Downing Street.

On 18 June 1815, the Battle of Waterloo ended Napoleon's empire. But one of the strangest stories to come out of that day involves Henry Paget, a cavalry charge, a very calm amputation, and a leg with its own tombstone.

The Dead Rabbits were an Irish American street gang who dominated Five Points in 1840s and 1850s New York. Named after a thrown rabbit carcass, they fought the Bowery Boys, backed Tammany Hall, and helped shape the city's criminal underworld.

Diane Webber was a Playboy Playmate, nudism advocate, B-movie mermaid, and belly dancing pioneer. Here's the remarkable life of a woman who kept reinventing herself.

Discover the story behind the 1936 photo of a Republican militia wedding in Madrid, and the women who fought and loved on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War.

In May 1945, Herta Kašparová pointed out Czech men to SS soldiers and condemned others with a finger snap. All were shot. She was hanged at 23. The full story.

In 1977, former beauty queen Joyce McKinney kidnapped a Mormon missionary, chained him to a bed in Devon, and fled Britain before trial. The full story of the Manacled Mormon case.

Busby Berkeley created Hollywood's greatest spectacles using hundreds of anonymous women. He also killed two people in a drunk driving crash and was acquitted three times. The real story.

Mary Jo Kopechne was one of Washington's sharpest political minds. She died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick in 1969. The full story of who she was and what really happened.

A 2014 study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences had psychiatrists watch 400 films to find cinema's most realistic psychopaths. Hannibal Lecter didn't make the cut. Here's who did.

In 1902, Émile Bayard launched Le Nu esthétique, the world's first nude photography magazine. Dedicated to Bouguereau and prefaced by Gérôme, it lasted five years before moral crusaders shut it down.

In the early 1900s, pushball had Harvard, the British military, and crowds of thousands in its grip. A six-foot ball, two teams, and thirty years of glorious chaos. The full story.

In 1757, a servant named Damiens stabbed Louis XV with a penknife. The wound was 1cm deep. His execution lasted all day. The last quartering in French history.

Born in Copenhagen, crowned Miss Denmark, and photographed by Peter Gowland for Playboy's September 1956 centrefold. Elsa Sørensen led two parallel careers under two different names, and hardly anyone noticed.

Jean Harlow was Hollywood's first platinum blonde bombshell. Behind the glamour was a domineering mother, three troubled marriages, a husband's suspicious death, and a body quietly failing at 26.

: The story of Juan Romero, the 17-year-old busboy who cradled dying Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. How he lived with guilt for 50 years and eventually found peace.

Alfred Cheney Johnston turned the Ziegfeld Follies girls into photographic legends. Discover the story of the photographer behind the most iconic showgirl portraits of the 1920s and 30s.

On 6 October 1976, Thai police and right-wing militias massacred unarmed students at Thammasat University in Bangkok. Here's the full story of what happened, and why it's been silenced ever since.

She replaced Marilyn Monroe on a Bob Hope tour, waded into the Trevi Fountain in a black gown, and made Playboy before she made film history. This is Anita Ekberg.

From Broadway to Playboy centrefolds, Jayne Mansfield weaponised her curves and owned every room she walked into. Here's the story of the boldest blonde in Hollywood.

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary of 1865 documented nearly 10,000 words used by Victorian London's criminals, costermongers, students, and MPs. Here's the story behind it.

Born into poverty, Kiki de Montparnasse became the most famous model in 1920s Paris and posed for the most expensive photograph ever sold. Here's who she really was.