Baseball legend who hit 536 home runs and led the New York Yankees to seven World Series wins in the 1950s and '60s.
Hip-hop legend and key figure in the gangsta rap era of the 1990s thanks to hits like "Gin and Juice."
First woman, Black American and Indian American to become U.S. vice president.
The mythical ape man "Bigfoot" is filmed in northern California, capturing the imagination of true believers worldwide. When a prominent Bigfoot researcher later sent the FBI a hair sample, they concluded it was of "deer family origin."
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