On February 7, 1984, during the STS-41-B mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Bruce McCandless II ventured where no one had gone before.

George Metesky, better known as the “Mad Bomber,” terrorized New York City from the 1940s through the 1950s. His 16-year bombing campaign began in 1940 and resulted in over 30 explosive devices being planted around the city, targeting places like movie theaters, subway stations, and public buildings.

In 1993, Russian archaeologist Natalia Polosmak made a groundbreaking discovery on the Ukok Plateau, part of the Siberian Altai Mountains.

In the tumultuous final years of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, a unique group known as the Shinsengumi emerged.

In the golden age of daredevil stunts, two adventurous spirits, Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger, captured public imagination with a unique spectacle.

Eduard Einstein, born on July 28, 1910, in Zurich, Switzerland, was the second son of the celebrated physicist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić.

On September 5, 1986, Neerja Bhanot, a 23-year-old senior flight purser on Pan Am Flight 73, faced an unimaginable situation when her plane was hijacked by four armed terrorists at Karachi Airport.

Richard Kuklinski, born in 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey, led a life that would eventually become infamous across America.

In the final days of World War II, as the Allies advanced across Germany, American soldiers stumbled upon a significant cache hidden deep within a disused mine near Marburg.

Barry Seal, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1939, quickly developed a passion for flying, earning his pilot’s license at just 16.