In 1983, Australia’s version of the CIA conducted a mock hostage rescue scenario in the Sheraton Hotel. The problem? The hotel was operating as normal, and none of the staff or guests had a clue what was about to happen. “On 30 November 1983, ASIS garnered unwanted negative attention when […]
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 river of whiskey flowing freely through the Irish streets. There’s just one problem – the whole thing is on fire. “The Dublin Whiskey Fire took place on the 18th of June, 1875 in the Liberties area of Dublin City. It lasted a single night but killed 13 people, and […]
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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 […]
They say love is blind, and so are toy designers. “Earring Magic Ken is a model of the Ken doll introduced by Mattel in 1993 as a companion to its Earring Magic Barbie figure, one of six dolls in the Earring Magic Barbie line. This generation of the Ken doll […]
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. […]
