The eldest of Marlon Brando's children, Christian Brando struggled with drug and alcohol abuse before he was sentenced to ten years in prison for killing his sister's lover inside his father's home in 1990.UPI Photo/L.Davis/AlamyActor Marlon Brando with his son Christian Brando during the latter’s trial for the killing of Dag Drollet. Marlon Brando is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of all time for his roles in The Godfather series, Apocalypse Now, and On the Waterfront, to name a few.

Since Theresa Kachindamoto's time as senior chief in the Dedza district of Malawi, the country has increased the legal age of marriage consent from 15 to 18.TwitterTheresa Kachindamoto, senior chief in Malawi’s Dedza district. Theresa Kachindamoto’s time as senior chief of the Dedza district in Malawi was largely spent on a singular issue: child marriages. Though she understood they were culturally accepted and borne out of financial necessity, the practice struck her as one that brought deep, irreparable harm and simply had to be eliminated.

On December 19, 1998, Bill Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice — after he was caught lying about an affair with his intern Monica Lewinsky.Wikimedia CommonsSeveral controversies triggered Bill Clinton’s impeachment, including his affair with his intern Monica Lewinsky. Only three U.S. presidents have ever been impeached: Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump. But Bill Clinton’s impeachment was an especially dramatic ordeal. For some, Clinton was controversial even before he took office.

Experience the terror of the Mermaid Inn, the Hotel Cecil, and more of the world's most haunted hotels — and learn their stories of murder, mayhem, and mystery.To this day, scores of hotels around the world purport to be haunted. Some claim that malevolent spirits stalk their grounds. Others claim that the grisly crimes that unfolded in their halls in decades past left an evil energy behind. And some claim to house guests who checked in decades or even centuries ago — and never checked out.

Is any day in history as fraught with horrible events as January 30? From Hitler's rise to power to the assassination of Gandhi, these are some of the absolute worst.History is complicated and unpredictable. When patterns do emerge, it’s usually because the same pressures are in play from one century to the next. Sometimes, though, weird stuff just seems to cluster around a single date. On the surface, January 30 doesn’t seem to be anything special—it’s no February 29, after all—but that date has attracted unpleasant news as if it was permanently under a cloud.