Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson switched entire lives – including wives and kids – after one fateful barbecue. New York Post Archives/Getty ImagesFritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, run onto the field during a Yankees game. To former Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, it was a simple and sensible thing. To the country it was a scandal of epic proportions, the likes of which had never been seen before.

At the time that the stone handaxes were made, early Neanderthals and other "archaic" humans populated Britain. ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTH-EAST/UCLThe two giant handaxes are among the oldest and largest prehistoric stone tools ever found in Britain. While excavating land in Kent, England, ahead of the construction of a school, archaeologists uncovered 800 stone artifacts thought to be 300,000 years old, including two “giant” handaxes. The handaxes are so large as to be unwieldy, and would have required two hands to pick up.

From his secret cocaine addiction to his intense cat phobia, these Hitler facts expose everything you never knew about history's most infamous villain. Historians agree that he never once visited a single concentration camp.Wikimedia Commons He reportedly suffered from a fear of cats.Wikimedia Commons He regularly used cocaine during the war years.Wikimedia Commons He was Austrian, not German, and didn't move to Germany until the start of World War I.

Whether it's the burning monk, the JFK assassination, or Woodstock, these images are still seared into the American consciousness 50 years later. This now iconic image of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara depicts him at the March 5, 1960 funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion. Guevara believed that the destruction of the French freighter in Havana harbor and the 75-100 resulting deaths were a deliberate act of sabotage on the part of the U.

These companies made fortunes and grew to what they are today with help from Hitler.Hugo Jaeger/Timepix/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesAustrian automobile manufacturer Ferdinand Porsche (left, in dark suit) presents a newly designed convertible Volkswagen car to Adolf Hitler for his 50th birthday. Berlin, Germany. April 20, 1939. Nowadays, we rightly view the Nazi regime as an evil empire, horrific in their actions and despicable in their ideology. However, Nazi Germany was not always viewed as such.