What the evidence says

Free, factual, sourced files on history's great cases: timeline, direct answers, myths checked against the archives.

Titanic: what the evidence says (timeline, figures, the 1912 inquiries)
The White Star liner Titanic struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912 at 11:40 p.m. (ship's time) in the North Atlantic and sank at about 2:20 a.m. on 15 April. More than 1,500 people died: 1,517 according to the US Senate inquiry, 1,490 according to the British inquiry.
Jack the Ripper: what the evidence says (Whitechapel, 1888)
"Jack the Ripper" is the name given to the killer of several women in Whitechapel, in London's East End, in 1888. Five victims are called "canonical": Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. The killer was never identified.
Al Capone and Prohibition: what the evidence says
Al Capone (1899-1947) ran one of Chicago's main criminal organisations during Prohibition (1920-1933). He was never convicted for the gang-war violence: he fell in 1931 for tax evasion, after an accounting investigation by the federal tax authorities.
Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963)
On 22 November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot from the Texas School Book Depository while riding in a Dallas motorcade. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder, killed two days later by Jack Ruby, and subsequent investigations yielded divergent official conclusions about a possible conspiracy.

Titanic: what the evidence says (timeline, figures, the 1912 inquiries)