r/HistoryUncovered

RIP to a LEGEND!

In 1983, Tami Oldham Ashcraft survived 41 days alone in the Pacific Ocean after a Category 4 hurricane killed her fiancé and destroyed their yacht. With no engine or radio, she navigated 1,500 miles to safety using a sextant and the stars — the inspiration behind the film "Adrift."

Interviews with hippies in San Francisco during the 'Summer of Love' in 1967.

On May 15, 1992, Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez received a disturbing note onstage during a concert in Sinaloa. After the show, men claiming to be police officers stopped him and said their commander wanted to see him. The next morning, his body was found with two bullet holes in his head.

Saddam's baath purge. Saddam had people packed into a conference hall on one of the hottest days of July and deliberately shut off the ventilation system. They were forced to listen to Saddam for hours while suffering from the heat and sweating. Everyone whose name was announced was executed.

Shortly after the September 11th attacks, Donald Trump called into a local news station to brag that he now owns the tallest building in New York City.

Princess Diana confronts paparazzi for recording her family during a ski trip in Switzerland in 1995.

In March 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Alabama — nine months before Rosa Parks. However, while Parks became a national icon, Colvin was largely forgotten because she was perceived as "feisty" and became pregnant soon after her arrest

Paparazzi Ron Galella would wear a football helmet when following Marlon Brando, after the actor sucker-punched him, broke his jaw, and knocked out five teeth in 1973 for allegedly finding out about Brando's affair with Jackie Kennedy.

Victims of the My Lai Massacre, in which U.S. soldiers murdered 347-504 civilians, almost all women, children, and elderly men. Many female victims were gang-raped. March 16, 1968