A groundbreaking civil rights strategist, Constance Baker Motley argued 10 landmark cases before the Supreme Court — and won nine of them.

The inspiration for Bill Tench on Mindhunter, Robert Ressler interviewed dozens of murderers during his career with the FBI and came up with the very first serial killer profiles.

Just months after leading the independence of India from the British in 1947, Gandhi was shot three times at point-blank range by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse.

While Mileva Marić was married to Albert Einstein, many believe she greatly contributed to his world-changing discoveries — only to be denied credit later on.

Since at least 1976, police have picked up Indigenous men, women, and boys, then left them miles outside the city on sub-zero winter nights, leading to what’s known as the Saskatoon freezing deaths.

Saint Olga of Kiev was the 10th-century princess of Kievan Rus who enacted bloodthirsty revenge on the tribe that killed her husband, the Grand Prince Igor I.

An American helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, Hugh Thompson Jr. threatened his fellow soldiers at My Lai that he would shoot them if they didn't stop killing civilians.

Before dying on May 2, 2016, Afeni Shakur was a political activist who took on the NYPD while facing a 350-year sentence — and pregnant with Tupac.

Throughout the 17th century, Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi created stunning works depicting female revenge in the face of male oppression.

After the Persians invaded her lands around 530 B.C.E., Queen Tomyris vowed to give their king his fill of blood. And she kept that promise.

Just a year after she was born in 1902, Albert Einstein's daughter Lieserl Einstein suddenly vanished from the historical record — and until 1986, no one even knew she existed.