21 Historical Events That Seem Made Up, But Aren't

‘Nicholas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet without a parachute from a burning plane in 1944 and suffered no serious injury’
21 Historical Events That Seem Made Up, But Aren't
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2y ago Edited 2y ago Michael Malloy AKA Mike the Durable AKA Iron Mike. During the Great Depression, five men took out a life insurance policy on a homeless alcoholic that they were sure was going to drink himself to death. The owner of a bar allowed him to drink for free, but he kept drinking and didn't die. So they tried to poison him with antifreeze. Didn't work. The turpentine, horse liniment, rat poison, methanol....still didn't work. A sandwich made with rotten sardines and tacks. Still no luck. Then they took his drunk body out in the cold
lundewoodworking . 2y ago Edwin booth brother of john Wilkes booth saved the life of Robert the son of president Abraham Lincoln.
Meh_M-E-H . 2y ago Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived a fall of 75 stories while in an elevator in 1945.
defective_toaster . 2y ago The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 that took place in Boston, MA. 40 foot wave that killed 21 people.
crankgirl . 2y ago . Edited 2y ago In 2019 a convicted murderer on day release bravely fought off a terrorist at London Bridge with a narwhal tusk.
missoularedhead . 2y ago The Nutmeg Wars. The Dutch and the English went to war THREE times over nutmeg, which at the time was only known to grow on one South Pacific island.
drailCA . 2y ago In 1908 Russia showed up 12 days late to the Olympics because the world switched calenders while they did not.
hazps . 2y ago Nicholas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet without a parachute from a burning plane in 1944 and suffered no serious injury.
SkydivingSquid . 2y ago My colleague was on the plane to Hawaii where the entire top of the plane ripped off... they flew the rest of the way without any overhead.. landed and everyone walked off. Absolutely insane to see the pictures. Talk about being given a 2nd chance..
MTVChallengeFan . 2y ago On December 5th, 1664, a man named Hugh Williams was the only survivor of a shipwreck. On December 5th, 1785, a man named Hugh Williams was the only survivor of a shipwreck. On December 5th, 1820, a man named Hugh Williams was the only survivor of a shipwreck.
CoolToko . 2y ago During Alexander the Great's destruction of the Mediterranean he was going to leave a small island named Tyre for later as it would've been hard to besiege it but the people of Tyre laughed and mocked him so he literally built a bridge to their island and conquered it
Silver-Maybe-751 . . 2y ago The swedish king Gustav II. had to wear glasses (like... badly) but was too vain and refused. In battle, he proceeded to lose his direction and got lost in the smoke, leading him to land behind the enemy's lines. Needless to say he didn't survive that. So essentially he died because he didn't want to wear his glasses. Wear your glasses, kids. Life is short (and so is your sight)
LW33 . 2y ago There would have been a third, and a nuclear, world war and possibly the end of the world if Stanislaw Petrow didn't react like he did on the 25th of September 1983. In short: he was the only one that questioned the readings on the russian missle alert system and refused to launch nuclear counter- missiles.
SuvenPan e 2y ago 0 Edited 2y ago Halley's Comet appeared in the sky when Mark Twain was born in 1835. The comet moves in a seventy-five or seventy-six-year orbit, and, as it neared Earth once again, Twain said I came in with Halley's Comet and I expect to go out with it. Sure enough, he died on April 21, 1910, just as the comet made its next pass within sight of Earth.
tarheel_204 . 2y ago The Ghost Army in WWII. Essentially an American group of troops would deploy dummy tanks, broadcast fake radio chatter, and deploy loud sound effects over speakers to fool the Nazis into thinking there was a large military presence coming their way. The Ghost Army was used to deceive the Nazis and make them send their military presence elsewhere, which provided openings for the real Allied forces to move in. This was used in the later parts of the war.
Darmok47 2y ago John O'Neill, the FBI agent in charge of investigating Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden in the 1990s, grew frustrated with the bureacratic politics within the FBI and between the FBI and CIA that he felt hampered his mission. Не decided to take to leave the FBI and take a higher paying job in the private sector. In August 23, 2001 he became the Chief of Security at the World Trade Center. Не was killed in the attacks just a few weeks later.
csudebate 2y ago Edited 2y ago The Battle of Bull Run, one of the first battles of the US Civil War, occurred on and around Wilmer McClean's farm in Northern Virginia. Not wanting to live surrounded by war, McClean and his family moved to Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse was the last significant battle between Union and Confederate forces. The Confederates signed the surrender order in Wilmer's sitting room. It is said that the Civil War started on Wilmer's farm and ended in his sitting room.
Background-Lab-8521 2y ago Edited 2y ago The masses marching to the Berlin Wall and tearing it down only happened because earlier that day during a press conference, an East German official (Günther Schabowski) accidentally incorrectly said leaving East Germany was legal, effective immediately. As far as / know this becomes effective..it is right away, immediately is still a famous thing to say in Germany. It would eventually have happened anyway BUT it wasn't legal yet. However people just did it anyways because the guy got visibly confused during the press conference, and said the wrong thing.
battling_futility 2y ago Most likely when the conquistadors under cortez wanted to build catapults to attack Tenochtitlan. After convincing him to halt the assault they built 2. Unfortunately they didn't actually have any siege masters who actually knew how to build them but just a dude who was convinced he knew how. When they fired them they threw the boulders straight up and they landed right in front of the catapults. This caused much confusion to the inhabitants of the city. The incident was recorded by both sides. I like to believe it inspired the character of wil e coyote.
Another_Road 2y ago Theodore Roosevelt found his boat was stolen. So he built a new boat, tracked the thieves down and arrested them. Не then proceeded to walk them multiple days, without sleeping, so they could receive a trial instead of just shooting them on the spot. It was in the middle of a harsh winter so he didn't handcuff them (for fear they'd get frostbite) so instead he just kept himself awake by reading Tolstoy with a gun trained on them the whole trek.
medievalistbooknerd . 2y ago In 2014, Pope Francis released doves in the Vatican to symbolize his hopes for peace in the world. As soon as the doves began to fly, a seagull and a crow swooped down and attacked them in front of everyone.

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