During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachuted from Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 that he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money.

It Happened on
November 24, 1971

He was never apprehended, and nearly 50 years later, the case would remain the only unsolved skyjacking in history.

Let’s make it weirder!

9 months later

On August 30, 1972, the actress Cameron Diaz was born.