Peoples Temple: One Of The Most Famous Cults Of The 1970s Wikimedia CommonsOn November 18, 1978, Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide.
Laura Johnston Kohl is one of the few members of the Peoples Temple cult who survived the infamous Jonestown massacre in 1978. Before the 9/11 attacks, the mass murder-suicide in Guyana was the largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster — with a final death toll of 918 people. Read More...
Corey Haim struggled with drug addiction throughout most of his life, but an autopsy revealed that pneumonia was the true cause of his death.MediaPunch Inc/Alamy Stock PhotoAs a teenager, Corey Haim was one of the biggest actors in the world, but he later struggled with addiction.
Two of the biggest teenage actors of the 1980s, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim shared the same first name, were lifelong friends, and co-starred together in a number of hit films, including The Lost Boys. Read More...
When a Confederate colonel called John Clem a "damned little Yankee devil" and demanded his surrender at the Battle of Chickamauga, John shot him — and became the youngest noncommissioned officer in U.S. Army history.George G. Rockwood/Wikimedia CommonsJohn Clem was barely four feet tall when he joined the Union Army during the Civil War.
In May 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sent out a national call for volunteers to fight for the Union Army. Read More...
