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23-year-old woman walked onto the courts of the U.S. Nationals (today’s U.S. Open) and changed tennis forever. Her name is Althea Gibson. 1950 [973x1047]
https://redd.it/1n1zs48
The “Revenge Dress.” Princess Diana stuns in black during her husband the Prince of Wales’s public admission of infidelity. Kensington Gardens, London. June 29, 1994 [1859x1396]
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A member of the Hitler Youth renaming Tomáš Masaryk Street (founder of Czechoslovakia) to Adolf Hitler Street after the German annexation of the Sudetenland, October 1938 (1834x2600)
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"For Peaceful Cooperation in Space" Soviet poster, 1986.
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'The Point' by Larry Selman; One of the most daring episodes of D-Day was the scaling of the heights at Pointe Du Hoc by the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion.
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Cheryl Ladd in early 80s
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Richard Nixon’s last lunch as president: pineapple, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk. That evening, he announced his intent to resign on national television. August 8, 1974 [3000x2018]
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Landing ships putting cargo ashore in Normandy during the early days of the Battle of Normandy. (1944) [2048×1481]
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SS troops loot winter boots from killed American soldiers during the Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 [1456x1026]
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Lota Cheek, winner of a NYC beauty contest in 1922
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Pearl Harbour, Italian poster, 1941
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he became a U.S. citizen in September of 1983
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On 23 August 1989, two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 km across the three Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. [1170 x 1275]
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A Pennsylvania State Trooper warns a driver trying to nap on the side of the road that a possible serial killer has been targeting sleeping truckers around Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Three truckers had been robbed and shot, two of them fatally, August 1953 [1032 x 1280].
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The body of Lord Mountbatten is brought to shore after his assassination. He was pulled alive from the water by nearby fishermen but died from his injuries before being brought to shore, Mullaghmore, Ireland, August 27, 1979 [1600 x 898].
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January 1941 - Foggy night in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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21-years old Yves Saint Laurent at Christian Dior's funeral, 1957 (1440×1800)
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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1865 (1986x3290)
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Swing You Sinners! (1930) (hand-colorized)
https://youtu.be/DxMq-DsGM48?si=glzJcrDR3i-v9Nf0
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"The Fourth Term" Cartoon of Franklin Roosevelt (by Leo Roche), 1939
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A homeless man in the Warsaw Ghetto, German occupied Poland, 1941 (702x1050)
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Mum and Dad on their wedding day 1991. Happy 34 years today.
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Park Young-in (Japanese name: Kuni Masami) was a professional dancer who was part of a small community of Koreans in Nazi Berlin (1938, right). His grandson is Fred Arminsen [1068x1344]
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Jewish survivors of the Hebron Massacre. Happened today, Aug 24 in 1929 [1600x1066]
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German soldier returns home from war only to find his house in ruin and his family perished. Frankfurt, 1946. [960x1157]
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Never Forget. We Forgot. (Twenty Years After 9/11 Cartoon Series; Pasadena Star News, Circa September 2021)
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Soviet airman carrying a FAB-50 bomb during World War II (1942) [736×1068]
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The remains of astronaut Vladimir Komarov, who perished during a space mission, 1967. Soviet military officials view the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. [1300 × 890]
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