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21 Intriguing Images From History's Vault

Interesting photographs that tell the story of our tumultuous past.

1.

Young Janet and Michael Jackson.

2.

The crew of Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing in 1966. Sadly, all three astronauts were killed on the launch pad.

3.

Inmates at Attica play chess.

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4.

The Beatles in 1957.

5.

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

6.

John F. Kennedy has a tea party with his daughter, Caroline.

7.

Dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

8.

Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.

9.

The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.

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10.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I.

11.

Beatles preparing to cross Abbey Road.

12.

Message for pearl harbor.

13.

A rescue boat comes alongside the crippled USS West Virginia shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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14.

Elvis in the Army (the one with "Presley" on his shirt).

15.

Albert Einstein's office, photographed on the day of his death.

16.

A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.

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17.

Adolf Hitler's pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf's Lair in 1944.

18.

Obama & his grandfather.

19.

Eleven year-old Adolf Hitler.

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20.

The blood-stained gloves that Lincoln was wearing when he was assassinated at Ford's Theater.

21.

A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tienanmen Square.

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