15 Cool Photos From History's Vaults

1. New Yorkers learn of the D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944.

2. Szeles Erika Kornelia, 15 year-old Hungarian anti-communist fighter during the 1956 Revolution. she was killed during the revolution

3. Ernest Shackleton’s ship (called endurance) during the imperial expedition to Antarctica, c. 1916

4. Last public appearance of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, 1976

5. Srbosjek (“Serb cutter”) used in Croatia for efficient murder of Serbs & other ethnic groups – 1941–1945

6. 12-year-old Sergeant John Lincoln Clem. American Civil War, 1863

7. 16 year old Bill Clinton shaking hands with JFK, 1963

8. Pope John Paul II immediately after being shot in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City, 1981. The Pope later forgave the shooter, Mehmet Ali Ağca, and requested his life-term imprisonment be pardoned

9. Two boys asleep at 2 a.m. in the press room of the Sun newspaper, NYC, 1892 – by Jacob Riis

10. Father and son from the same German regiment read a letter from their respective wife and mother at the front, 1915.

11. The consequences of landing on the wrong Aircraft Carrier, 1952

12. Survivors walk out of the Auschwitz children’s barracks, January 27, 1945

13. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the Instrument of Surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin, May 1945. After trial, he was sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg Prison by hanging in 1946

14. A man exercises using a rowing machine in the gym aboard the RMS Titanic, 1912

15. A member of the state militia faces off against an African-American veteran during the 1919 Chicago Race Riot. July 27, 1919