r/HistoryUncovered

During a 1982 interview, Titanic survivor Ruth Becker claimed the ship broke in two. The treasurer of the Titanic Historical Society took the microphone away and said she had been mistaken. Three years later, the ship was discovered in two pieces.

On September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was hijacked en route to Washington, D.C. but passengers led by Tom Burnett launched a revolt inside the cockpit that forced the plane down in southwestern Pennsylvania. All 44 aboard were killed, but their actions saved countless lives in the nation's capital

On September 11, 2001, Morgan Stanley security chief Rick Rescorla evacuated employees from the South Tower, singing a Welsh military march through a bullhorn to keep up everyone's spirits. After his colleagues were safe, he returned to rescue others and was still inside when the tower collapsed.

On September 15, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi was planting flowers outside his Arizona gas station to honor 9/11 victims when a man drove up and shot him five times in the back, killing him because he was wearing a turban. His death was the first in a series of “revenge” murders following 9/11.

NYU students in their dorm room witness people jumping from the World Trade Center moments before the second plane hits on 9/11.

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, on his first trip to New Guinea to study the Asmat people in May 1960. One year later, he vanished off the coast during another expedition and was rumored to have been killed and eaten by the same tribe he was studying.

In January 2011, 27-year-old Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her apartment with 20 stab wounds to her chest, neck, and back. Her death was ruled a suicide despite the unusual circumstances and more than a decade later, her family is still fighting to have the case reopened.

When firefighters broke into Madame Delphine LaLaurie's New Orleans mansion in 1834, they found several enslaved people chained, mutilated, and barely alive — some with broken limbs, gouged eyes, and holes drilled into their skulls. The once-beloved socialite fled before she could face justice.

Thomas Jefferson's secret sexual affair with Black slave, 14, and 200 years of shunning descendants

On 9/11 2001 Madeline Sweeny, flight attended on American Airlines 11, relayed information to the ground