During the Battle of Wizna in September 1939, a Polish army of just 720 soldiers was able to stand strong against 42,000 Nazis for three days.

A British serial killer who targeted child molesters and rapists, Robert Maudsley has spent over 50 years in prison for his murders — most of which he committed behind bars.

After the ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, the Titanic's band continued to play in order to calm passengers during the evacuation — and kept going even as the ship sank below the surface of the North Atlantic.

In 2001, Harrison Ford joined a search and rescue operation after Cody Clawson got lost near Yellowstone National Park, and successfully located the missing boy.

In 1987, the British public learned that Queen Elizabeth II's severely disabled cousins had spent most of their lives in a mental hospital — allegedly hidden from the outside world for decades.

One of the most venerated deities in the Egyptian pantheon, Hathor was a mother goddess who was often depicted with cow horns and a sun disc.

Between August and October 2017, Takahiro Shiraishi killed nine people, eight women and one man, most of whom had expressed suicidal thoughts on the internet.

Rosa Parks died from natural causes on October 24, 2005, leaving behind a legacy as the "mother of the civil rights movement" who forever changed the lives of Black Americans.

One of the most famous great apes, Koko the gorilla made headlines for her use of sign language until her death on June 19, 2018.

Andy Warhol survived a shooting that damaged nine of his organs and put him in the hospital for two months in 1968, but it was a simple gallbladder surgery that led to his death on February 22, 1987.

June Carter Cash began her musical career singing with her family's folk group when she was just 10 and later toured with Elvis Presley and co-wrote "Ring of Fire" — one of Johnny Cash's biggest hits.