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The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
Ann Hodges had the latter kind of luck. Hodges had a literal out-of-this-world experience when a meteorite crashed into her living room in 1954. In the sleepy town of Sylacauga, Alabama, where the ...
Her family was presumed dead, so medics called her “Unknown.” Today, the chubby 6-month-old is the star of the wards where her de-facto guardian, Amal Abu Khatleh, 32, works as a pediatrician.
Cornelia Zangheri Bandi (66) was an Italian noblewoman whose death on 15 March 1731 may have been a possible case of spontaneous human combustion. [43] [44] But the case has never been proven, with the true cause of death remaining unknown. [43] [44] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (35), composer, died on 5 December 1791.
The story of Rudolph Fentz is an urban legend from the early 1950s and has been repeated since as a reproduction of facts and presented as evidence for the existence of time travel. The essence of the legend is that in New York City in 1951 a man wearing 19th-century clothes was hit by a car. The subsequent investigation revealed that the man ...
The Oneita Knitting Mills also added a night shift and now has 1,500 workers. The Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley Mills hires 250 men and women and now employs 1,200. It was 1909 and the Oneida ...
October–December. November 16: Oklahoma. October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice. October 22 – Panic of 1907: A bank run forces New York 's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
818916146. Newsweek is a weekly news magazine. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, Newsweek was widely distributed during the 20th century and had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by Dev Pragad, the president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis who sits on the board; they each own 50% of the company.