Scandalous!: 50 shocking events you should know about (so you can impress your friends)
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Zest Books
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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1906 : Famous architect Stanford White murdered by ex-lover's rich husband
1906 : Writer Upton Sinclair exposes meat industry's nasty underbelly
1913 : Native American decathlete Jim Thorpe stripped of Olympic medals
1919 : Navy officers enact messy plan to bust gay officers
1919 : Gamblers pay Chicago White Sox to throw World Series
1920 : Charles Ponzi invents scheme that cons masses out of millions
1921 : Silent film star "Fatty" Arbuckle accused of murder
1924 : Wealthy Chicago teens Leopold and Loeb kill 14-year-old boy for thrills
1925 : Tennessee puts science teacher Scopes on trial for teaching evolution
1927 : Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti sentenced to death for political views
1932 : World famous pilot Charles Lindbergh's baby is kidnapped and killed
1934 : Little Gloria Vanderbilt gets caught in crazy custody battle
1938 : Orson Welles' radio show convinced country that aliens were invading
1943 : Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin accused of fathering stalker's baby
1950 : Small-time communist couple, the Rosenbergs, put to death for espionage
1956 : Rock singer Elvis' sexy hip-shaking on TV shocks the nation
1957 : Celebrities defend reputations trashed by first gossip mag
1958 : Bad boy rock star Jerry Lee Lewis marries his underage cousin
1958 : Movie star Lana Turner's daughter murders her mom's boyfriend
1959 : Rigged quiz show scandal stuns TV audiences
1963 : Harvard professor Timothy Leary fired for his psychedelic drug experiments
1968 : Black athletes stage controversial protest at Olympics
1969 : Senator Kennedy involved in mysterious death of young woman
1970 : National Guard shoots antiwar protestors at Kent State University
1972 : Unethical syphilis experiments conducted on black men
1974 : President Nixon forced to resign after being connected to crooked scandal
1974 : Heiress Patty Hearst abducted and brainwashed by radical political group
1977 : Director Roman Polanski gets convicted of rape and flees country
1978 : People in extreme religious sect commit mass suicide in Jonestown Massacre
1978 : Gay rights activist Harvey Milk assassinated by political rival
1980 : Janet Cooke's Pulitzer prize-winning story declared fake
1984 : Vanessa Williams steps down as Miss America
1984 : Bernhard Goetz shoots unarmed black youth on NYC subway
1987 : Televangelist Jim Bakker caught in sex and money scandal
1989 : Baseball great Pete Rose banned from the game for gambling
1989 : Robert Mapplethorpe's scandalous photos cause big stir
1989 : Pop duo Milli Vanilli lip sync their way to a Grammy
1990 : Madonna's racy Blond Ambition Tour protested by Catholic Church
1991 : Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas charged with sexual harassment
1991 : Police beating of Rodney King sparks LA race riots
1993 : Pop star Michael Jackson accused of molesting 13-year-old boy
1993 : FBI raid on religious sect in Waco, Texas, leaves 75 dead in fire
1993 : Hollywood prostitution ring leader Heidi Fleiss gets busted
1994 : Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan gets clubbed in the knee in foul play attack
1994 : All-star football player OJ Simpson on trial for murdering ex-wife
1996 : Rappers Biggie and Tupac murdered amid East-West coast rap rivalry
1998 : President Bill Clinton caught in sex scandal with White House intern
1998 : DNA tests spark controversy around Jefferson's second family with a slave
2000 : Cuba and US in custody battle for five-year-old shipwreck survivor
2000 : Tight Gore-Bush election results lead to bitter battle between parties.
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9780982732205