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The Challenger Disaster
On the night of January 27, 1986, a Morton Thiokol engineer named Allan McDonald refused to sign a document saying it was safe to launch the space sh…
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The Silver Bridge Collapse
On December 15, 1967, ten days before Christmas, the Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant, West Virginia collapsed into the Ohio River during rush hour, k…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Oklahoma City Bombing
78 minutes after the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building came off, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper named Charles Hanger pulled over a y…
1 month ago
Operation Sea Spray
In September 1950, a United States Navy vessel spent eight days off the San Francisco coastline spraying clouds of live bacteria into the wind, and n…
1 month ago
Privacy Not Included
You clicked “I Agree.” You never clicked anything for the camera on the pole outside your kid’s school. On May 9, 2025, a deputy with the Johnson Cou…
1 month ago
The Massacre At Son My
On the morning of March 16, 1968, an American helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson dropped a smoke grenade to mark a wounded Vietnamese woman so a me…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Tory War
In June of 1780, on a hill outside what's now Lincolnton, North Carolina, more than a thousand men killed each other in fog so thick you couldn't see…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Silence Of Empires
Around 1200 BC, a king named Ammurapi dictated a letter from the port city of Ugarit describing seven enemy ships, burned towns, and an army that was…
1 month, 1 week ago
John D. Rockefeller Junior
Part one left the old man under an obelisk in Cleveland, ninety-seven years old, the richest human being who had ever lived, and remembered by most o…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
John D. Rockefeller Sr. The Man Who Bought the Story
In February of 1908, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World walked into a drugstore in Freeport, Illinois, put a photograph on the counter, …
1 month, 2 weeks ago