On September 11, 2001, Tom Burnett helped lead the passenger revolt against the hijackers aboard United Flight 93 — and saved untold lives in the process.Tom Burnett was as playful as he was bookish and often joked that he was one of the last renaissance men alive. He was a well-read history buff who couldn’t shake an illogical sense of doom that began to plague him in 2001. After sharing it with his wife, he boarded United Airlines Flight 93.

Tommy Thompson was paid to recover the treasure left behind in a 19th-century shipwreck. But when he refused to pay up, he was put behind bars.Public Domain/Professional Coin Grading ServicesThe 68-year-old treasure hunter has been behind bars since 2015 for failing to tell investors where their gold is. In 1988, research scientist Tommy Thompson discovered a sunken 19th-century steamer off the coast of South Carolina — and it contained nearly $4 million in gold coins.

In 1953, the film "Roman Holiday" catapulted Rome and one of its most beautiful streets to new levels of fame. See why.Source: Turismo Roma In 1953, American filmmaker William Wyler made one of the most romantic films in history, Roman Holiday. The movie, shot entirely in Italy, tells the tale of an American reporter who falls in love with a princess who has grown tired of the constraints that her status places on her.

On June 10, tragedy struck in Pretoria, South Africa when a vintage plane crashed, killing two people and critically injuring two Australian pilots. A passenger who survived the wreck captured three minutes of video footage on his iPhone as the plane went down. The passenger, who was sitting by the plane’s left wing, recorded flames shooting out of the wing as the engine started to stammer. “It’s getting worse,” the man said.

An unidentified Jewish boy raises his hands at gunpoint after Nazi SS soldiers forcibly removed him and other ghetto residents from the bunker in which they'd taken refuge.The Nazi pointing the gun in the direction of the boy has been identified as SS soldier Josef Blösche. National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons Nazi SS soldiers lead several families of captured Jews down Nowolipie Street toward the assembly point for deportation.