GALLERY: A thermonuclear bomb was lost in a plane crash near a US military base in Greenland on January 21, 1968. 9News
Dr Dawson did not consult the king, the queen or the Prince of Wales before the act of euthanasia.Dr Dawson's actions did not become known until his diaries were made public in the 1980s, decades after his death.In one of rock and roll's most notorious moments, Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat on stage on January 20, 1982.The teen who threw the bat on stage claimed it was already dead.
Scott had been captured near Wagga Wagga after a police shootout that killed his accomplice and apparent lover James Nesbitt."My dying wish is to be buried beside my beloved James Nesbitt, the man with whom I was united by every tie which could bind human friendship, we were one in hopes, in heart and soul and this unity lasted until he died in my arms," Scott said before he was hanged.
Barbie, the so-called "Butcher of Lyon", was directly responsible for the murders of 14,000 people, mostly in southern France.As head of the local Gestapo, he was tasked with rounding up French Jews and suppressing the Resistance.Despite being wanted by the government of France, Barbie spent the first few years after the war working as an anti-communist consultant for the US government.
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