Rosa Parks died from natural causes on October 24, 2005, leaving behind a legacy as the "mother of the civil rights movement" who forever changed the lives of Black Americans.

One of the most famous great apes, Koko the gorilla made headlines for her use of sign language until her death on June 19, 2018.

Andy Warhol survived a shooting that damaged nine of his organs and put him in the hospital for two months in 1968, but it was a simple gallbladder surgery that led to his death on February 22, 1987.

June Carter Cash began her musical career singing with her family's folk group when she was just 10 and later toured with Elvis Presley and co-wrote "Ring of Fire" — one of Johnny Cash's biggest hits.

Known in the 1980s as "Brownie Mary," Mary Jane Rathbun defied the law to bring cannabis brownies to AIDS patients in San Francisco because of how marijuana could alleviate their symptoms.

From mythological images to erotic illustrations, these colorful frescoes have been stunningly well-preserved for nearly 2,000 years.

During restorations at the historic Academy Building at the University of Southern Maine, construction workers recovered dozens of letters and drawings from students who attended high school in the building nearly 200 years ago.

On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Boston to Lexington and Concord to warn his fellow patriots that the British were approaching.

The daughter of Marlon Brando and his third wife Tarita Teriipaia, Cheyenne Brando was preparing for a promising career as a model — then a chain of tragic events ultimately led to her suicide in 1995 when she was just 25 years old.

The RMS Titanic lies on the ocean floor at a depth of about 12,500 feet, over 350 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. And it looks very different today than when it was first rediscovered in 1985.

Massive herds of prehistoric rhinos known as Teleoceras major once roamed the plains of present-day Nebraska — then many of them died out in dramatic fashion when the nearby Yellowstone volcano erupted and the region was blanketed in ash that piled up as much as a foot high.