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Princess Margaret the outspoken, fun-loving younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first British royals who dared to go against what was expected of her. Some have gone so far as to dub her a trailblazer who modernized the royal family itself.

In the midst of the Great Depression, the U.S. government appeared to be giving away free healthcare to poor African American sharecroppers in Macon County, Alabama. There was a serious syphilis outbreak there at the time. And it seemed as though the government was helping to fight it.

NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesJoseph Bonanno leaves a U.S. Federal Court after battling an indictment for failing to appear before a grand jury investigation in 1966. May 18, 1968. New York, New York.

YouTubeDubbed La Mataviejitas and the Little Old Lady Killer, pro wrestler-turned-murderer Juana Barraza took the lives of at least 16 people in and around Mexico City in the 2000s. In 2005, police in Mexico City were under fire for dismissing claims that the murders plaguing the area for years were the work of a serial

History DailyRussian doctor Leonid Rogozov performs surgery on his own appendix. History is filled with remarkable true survival stories yet few can match that of Leonid Rogozov, the Russian doctor who performed surgery on himself to save his own life.