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This 1914 assassination in Sarajevo sparked a chain of events that helped launch World War I.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
After conquering much of Eurasia, this Mongol leader's DNA is reportedly shared by about 1 in 200 men alive today.
Temüjin/Genghis Khan
This legendary woman’s abduction or elopement with Paris is said to have helped spark the Trojan War.
Helen of Troy
This failed 1961 invasion of Cuba embarrassed the United States and strengthened Castro’s position.
Bay of Pigs invasion
This Russian "Mad Monk" was famously difficult to kill, surviving poisoning, shooting, and drowning in 1916.
Grigori Rasputin?
This English king broke with the Catholic Church in part so he could marry Anne Boleyn.
King Henry VIII
In 1932, the Australian military lost a "war" against this flightless bird species that was destroying crops.
The Emu
This Roman Emperor allegedly made his horse, Incitatus, a priest and planned to make him a consul.
Caligula
This King of Belgium turned the Congo Free State into a personal, horrific rubber-producing fiefdom.
Leopold II
This Argentine political couple became iconic in twentieth-century Latin American history.
Juan & Eva Perón