44. The Johnson Administration
Gerri Whittington was the first Black personal secretary to a president. To announce her appointment, Lyndon Johnson put her on What’s My Line, a game show where contestants try to guess someone’s profession.
45. The Age Of The Samurai
High-ranking samurai strapped giant balloons to their backs. They inflated this bag, called a horo, to protect them from arrows.
46. Woodstock
Woodstock was very much a money-making affair, not some kind of hippie dream. It started when Capitol Records answered an ad from investors reading, “Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions.”
47. The Cold War
CIA agents in Moscow, knowing they were being tailed, kept inflatable sex dolls in their cars. They’d exit the car and inflate the doll, convincing the KGB agent intermittently watching them that the car was still occupied.
48. The Court of Charles VII
49. The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Authorities tortured a man to arrest him for the kidnapping. Real torture — they tied him to a rack. He got the death penalty based on his tortured confession, which he ended up recanting.
50. The Kennedy Assassination
The KGB was involved in the assassination. Not in carrying it out, no. But in spreading conspiracy theories afterward to undermine the US government.
51. Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
It’s a bit odd how much attention Lindbergh’s flight got. It wasn’t the first nonstop transatlantic one (Alcock and Brown beat him by eight years) — it was a sporting victory, not a technological one. So, you’d think the bigger story would be how, that same weekend, someone murdered 38 Michigan elementary school students. That’s the biggest school mass killing, even today.
52. The Martin Luther King Assassination
April 4, 1968, was the day MLK was assassinated. The one silver lining is that he spent the earlier part of that day having fun by having a pillow fight with friends in his hotel.
53. Hurricane Katrina
One of the lesser-known effects of Katrina: More than 1,000 coffins floated out of their graves and tombs. The skeletons landed far from their burial sites, making identifying them a headache. New Orleans passed a new law afterward, demanding labels for coffins.
54. The Gold Rush
Gold wasn’t the only way to make money when settlers headed to California. In 1851 and 1852, the state paid over a million dollars in bounties for killing or maiming Native Americans. One ad offered “$25 for a male body part, whether it was a scalp, a hand, or the whole body; and then $5 for a child or a woman.”
55. The Great Fire of London
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