A fascinating tale of deception, guilt and madness at sea. Unusually, it was all captured in logbooks and tapes, but the man behind them all disappeared forever. “Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst (1932 – July 1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in the Sunday Times […]
We hear about “Stockholm Syndrome” a lot (despite it being a fairly rare condition, and not actually officially recognized as a disorder), but did you know the reason it’s called “Stockholm Syndrome” originates from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden? “The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis […]
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It sounds like a bad dream – the nightclub is on fire and when you reach the exits, they’re locked. “The Stardust fire was a fatal fire which took place at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland in the early hours of 14 February (Valentine’s Day) 1981. Some 800 […]
We all love to see some instant karma. Here’s some terrorists trying to kill a bunch of people and getting their asses whooped. “The Glasgow Airport attack was a terrorist ramming attack which occurred on 30 June 2007, at 15:11 BST, when a dark green Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane […]
A hostage crisis in which the media were more involved than the police. But was what they were doing criminal? “The Gladbeck hostage crisis (known in Germany as the Gladbeck hostage drama) was a hostage-taking crisis that happened in August 1988 after an armed bank raid in Gladbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, […]
Most of us probably have some gripes with the taxman. Though, you probably wouldn’t give your life over it… would you? “The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on Thursday, February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into Building I of the […]
What does high-impact claustrophobia look like? “The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground’s Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line’s southern terminus, Moorgate station, and crashed into its end […]
Sure boxing’s cool – but a race is never going to break out in the middle of a boxing match. “The 1979 Daytona 500, the 21st annual event, was the second race of the 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. It was held on February 18, 1979. Sports pundits consider […]
If you tried to kill a political figure, you could probably expect to only be known for that, right? “Peter Raymond Kocan (born Peter Raymond Douglas, 4 May 1947) is an Australian author and poet, best known for his attempted assassination of Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell on 21 June 1966. […]
