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

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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 youths 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 sparks 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.