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.

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.