On this day in 1941, Sir Broughton stood trial for the murder of Lord Erroll. Both were English noblemen living in Kenya. And both were carrying on a relationship with one Diana Broughton.

On this day in 1659, Lord Richard Cromwell resigned from the Protectorate of England, ushering in a new era of unrest.

On this day in 1961, a group of civil rights activists rode a bus into Jackson, Mississippi. Despite federal protections, all riders were jailed, labeled “criminals” for entering a bus stop.

On this day in 1934, a five-day standoff began. Thirteen-hundred Ohio National Guard troops faced down six-thousand striking auto workers and unemployed civilians in Toledo, Ohio.

On this day in 1998, Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson ruled that President Bill Clinton’s Secret Service would have to testify about the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.

On this day in 1924, wealthy University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in cold blood.

On this day in 1983, a bomb went off in the South African city of Pretoria, killing 19 people and wounding over a hundred more. As the dust settled, it was clear that the attack was politically motivated, and carried out by the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress.

On this day in 2015, notorious thief Brian Reader was arrested in connection with one of the largest burglaries in English history.

On this day in 1998, the United States Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury announced the arrests of over 20 Mexican bankers—all of them connected to drug cartel money laundering.

On this day in 1968, the decaying body of an unidentified young woman was found off Route 25 in backwoods Kentucky. She was dubbed “Tent Girl” by the media, thanks to the fabric her body was wrapped in.

On this day in 1918, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Sedition Act of 1918, making it illegal for United States citizens to publicly criticize the government or country’s involvement in World War I.

On this day in 1970, armed police forces from across Mississippi were called to the Jackson State University Campus to subdue a group of students protesting the Vietnam War. Shortly after midnight, the police opened fire on the students.

On this day in 1610, King Henry IV of France was assassinated. His killer, François Ravaillac, insisted he acted alone…but did he?

On this day in 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip set sail from Portsmouth, England with a fleet of eleven ships. They were bound for a new penal colony in Australia.

On this day in 1932, 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, was found—dead.

On this day in 1988, Soviet spy Harold “Kim” Philby died in Moscow, at the age of 76. It was the end of one of the most storied double-agent careers in espionage history.

On this day in 1849, a riot erupted outside the Astor Opera House in New York City where Shakespeare’s Macbeth was being performed.

On this day in 1994, 18-year-old Cleashindra Hall vanished without a trace from Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

On this day in 1973, Native American activists surrendered to federal authorities, marking the end of a historic 71-day standoff at Wounded Knee.

On this day in 1992, three employees of a McDonald’s in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, were murdered in an armed robbery. It was the first “fast food murder” to occur in Canada.

On this day in 1996, the body of former CIA director William Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, nine days after he disappeared.

On this day in 1987, Congress commenced a joint hearing to investigate the Reagan administration’s illegal funding of the Contras, a guerilla military group in Nicaragua.

On this day in 1970, a protest at Kent State University in Ohio turned deadly when four students were shot by National Guardsmen.

On this day in 1992, Exxon Company International president Sidney Reso died in captivity, four days after being kidnapped outside his home in Morris Township, New Jersey.

On this day in 1536, Henry VIII’s second wife, Queen Anne, was arrested. To her face, she was accused of adultery, but in whispers, she was accused of incest, conspiracy, and even witchcraft.