Though Marvin Gay Sr. admitted to shooting his famous son Marvin Gaye on April 1, 1984, he received only a six-year suspended sentence and five years of probation for the crime.

The 2,500-year-old paintings depict dancing figures, a flute player, and a metal workshop.

Alexander Hamilton's children with his wife Eliza included six sons and two daughters — and plenty of family tragedy.

The trove of original sketches, drafts, and correspondence that once belonged to Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.A. Milne just sold for $118,000 at auction.

A medieval legend tells how Lady Godiva rode nude through Coventry, England on horseback, but she was a real 11th-century noblewoman who founded a Benedictine monastery.

In 1921, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was accused of raping and killing silent film actress Virginia Rappe — and though he was eventually acquitted, his name would forever be linked to her mysterious death.

Recent measurements of the shift in Earth's magnetic north pole show that it's moving toward Russia in an unprecedented way that scientists are calling "something that we have never observed before."

Experts believe the vomit came from a prehistoric shark or fish that dined on sea lilies before regurgitating the parts it couldn't digest.

The wife of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, Lisa Gherardini is traditionally believed to be the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous masterpiece.

Gideon Castro, 66, was charged with the second-degree murder of Dawn Momohara, a sophomore student who was found dead at a Honolulu high school on March 21, 1977.

On July 19, 1991, boxer Mike Tyson invited Desiree Washington, an 18-year-old contestant in the Miss Black America pageant, to his Indianapolis hotel room and raped her when she refused his sexual advances.