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Ernest Hemingway holding a shotgun in the Finca Vigia, his home in Cuba. This is the same weapon he used to end his own life on this day in 1961.

This is Katherine Bowes-Lyon. She was Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin. In 1941 she was quietly placed in a Surrey institution. In 1963 Burke's Peerage listed her as already dead. In 1987 The Sun found her alive. No royal ever spoke about her publicly.

President Lyndon Johnson confronts Senator Richard Russell, the leader of the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act, in 1964.

Florence Thompson, the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange's famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness during an interview after her identity was made known, October 10, 1978

Chet Baker at age 24 and John Claridge’s shot of Baker at age 57.

On this day in 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a narrow, unlit wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Kennedy escaped the submerged vehicle, but his passenger, 28-year-old campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, died. Kennedy didn't report the accident for another 10 hours.

Female students at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn stage a protest, donning slacks, in response to a classmate's suspension for wearing the same attire the previous day. (1942)

Dr James Barry(1789-1865): Inspector General of military hospitals for the British. Performed the first C-section by a European in Africa, and had an exemplary career and service. Upon death, Barry was discovered to be born a woman named Margaret Anne Bulkley.

Grady Stiles Jr performed as "Lobster Boy" for decades, then shot his daughter's fiancé dead the night before her wedding. His punishment? Probation, no prison. His own family eventually decided to kill him in 1992...

Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro photographed after finding fame following the release of the book 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas'. He would disappear in May 1974, aged 39.