Titanic

On this day(or tomorrow, no one I ask seems sure because it happened in the night and into the morning, and I should probably just Google it but I don't trust that search machine anymore) exactly one hundred years ago the RMS Titanic crashed into an iceberg and sunk in the Atlantic. You might be familiar with the story.

What you might not know is that Peggy's father, Benjamin Guggenheim was aboard. He was making some poor investments in Europe in the early 20th century, and decided to rush home to New York in order to borrow more money from his brothers, and also make it back in time for his youngest daughter, Hazel's 9th birthday. He should have waited for the next boat.

He is reported to have denied his seat on a life boat (as a first class passenger he had priority) and instead dressed in his best suit and helped women and children into the boats instead, saying "I'm prepared to go down as a gentleman" or something to that effect. Here is James Cameron's version.

Poor little Peggy was only 14 and it was the first in a lifetime of tragedies and disappointments that would shape the history of her involvement with men.

P.s. Did you know that the best ticket one could purchase on the Titanic, cost the equivalent of $75,000 in today's currency. I don't think they got their money's worth.