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1# An iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sake the Titanic.

 

 

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2# Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961.

 

 

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3# The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator “Little Warrior†explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944.

 

 

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4# Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp, Poland. 1943-44

 

 

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5# Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912.

 

 

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6# The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

 

 

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7# June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish sniper/sharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs.

 

 

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9# The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935.

 

 

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10# Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994.

 

 

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11# Stephen Hawking marries Jane Wilde in 1965.

 

 

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12# Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912.

 

 

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13# Two childhood friends unexpectedly reunite on opposite sides of a demonstration in 1972.

 

 

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14# A burial at sea on board the USS Lexington in 1944.

 

 

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15# The Statue of Liberty photographed during a power failure in 1942.

 

 

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16# A lion rides in the sidecar during a performance of The Wall of Death carnival attraction at Revere Beach, Massachusetts in 1929.

 

 

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17# The RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship, in wartime camouflage in 1915.

 

 

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18# Anastasia shares a smoke with her father, Tsar Nicholas II two years before their assassination in 1916.

 

 

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19# OJ Simpson carries the Olympic Torch in 1984. Nichole Brown can be seen on the left.

 

 

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20# Harry Houdini exposes "spirit trickery" in 1925

 

 

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21# Arnold Schwarzenegger shows off to some elderly women in the 1970's.

 

 

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22# Coney Island in 1905.

 

 

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23# Construction of Hoover Dam in 1934.

 

 

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24# George W. Bush plays a little dirty rugby for Yale in 1966.

 

 

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25# Sailors at Pearl Harbor watch as the USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack. December 7, 1941.

 

 

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26# The Japanese "War Tuba" used to locate enemy aircraft before the invention of radar. Circa 1930.

 

 

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27#font-family:'Open Sans'Washington-Hoover Airport which was demolished in 1941. This is where the Pentagon stands today.

 

 

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28# The aftermath of the Great Hurricane of 1900 which killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas.

 

 

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29# Marilyn Monroe with Ella Fitzgerald at the the Mocambo. A popular Hollywood night club at the time. That would not book Ella because of segregation. Marilyn told the manager that she would reserve a front row table every night Ella performed there. Ella performed a week later. 1955.

 

 

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30# Sad clown Emmett Kelly, in his performer’s makeup, carrying a bucket of water in the aftermath of the Hartford circus fire of July 6, 1944, in which at least 167 people were killed. The tragedy is often called “the day the clown cried.

 

 

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31# The White House hollowed out during its reconstruction. 1948-1952

 

 

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32# A crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-E Day, May 8th, 1945.

 

 

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33# Women protesting the forced Hijab in Iran days after the 1979 revolution.

 

 

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34# Women boxing in the roof sometime in the 1930s.

 

 

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35# A Worker on beam of building at 40 Wall Street, 1930.

 

 

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36# Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 in 1935.

 

 

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37# Pacific Southwest Airlines stewardesses in 1972.

 

 

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38# General George S. Patton’s dog on the day of Patton’s death on December 21st, 1945.

 

 

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39# Frank Sinatra asks Lou Gehrig for an autograph in 1939.

 

 

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40# Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963, being transported to questioning before his murder trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

 

 

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41# Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918

 

 

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42# Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

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