Important Pictures Throughout History

Featured 02/20/2013

Historical pictures and some interesting info.

1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina June 28, 1914. These assassinations were a contributing factor to the start of World War I.

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2. 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. 1990.

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3. A tornado that hit Carswell AFB on Sept 1, 1952 caused massive damage to most of the B-36 fleet.

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4. Boing 707 doing a barrel roll. When the test pilot Tex Johnson was questioned about the stunt, he simply replied by saying Just selling airplanes.

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5. The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.

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6. The first photo upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912.

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7. Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein at the Bohr-Einstein debates over quantum mechanics.

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8. Horten Ho 229 flying over Gttingen, Germany. It was the first pure flying wing powered by a jet engine. 1945.

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9. Bill Clinton Hillary playing volleyball in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. 1975.

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10. Howard Hughes inside of the H-4 Hercules, more widely known as the Spruce Goose. At the time, it was the largest airplane ever created. Photo: LIFE.

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11. Johnny Cash performing for prisoners at Folsom Prison. January 13, 1968.

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12. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The North view of the missile launch pads. 1960.

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13. Star Wars set at lunchtime.

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14. Steamboats in the Mississippi river, 1907. Photo: shorpy.

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15. Times Square in New York, 1911.

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16. Train Derailment at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France. 1895.

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17. An old advertisement of 'twin tires'. Pretty interesting concept.

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18. Release of Windows 95.

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19. Looks like a bad day to mow your lawn. Pictured are lineups at a gas station during the 1973 fuel shortage.

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20. An American soldier at an advanced allied base, with his pet kangaroo. 1942

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21. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he recieved his American citizenship.

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22. Babe Ruth shakes hands with U.S. President Warren G. Harding during a game at the Yankees Stadium. April, 1923. Ruth set career records for home runs which totalled at 714!

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23. Tearing the Berlin Wall down, 1989.

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24. Construction of the Statue of Liberty, 1884.

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25. Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, photographed on the day of his death, April 18, 1955.

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26. Elisabeth "Lilo" Gloeden stands before judges, on trial for being involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life, 1944.

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27. A vending machine that sold already lit cigarettes for a penny. England, 1931.

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28. Germans posing with a French prisoner of war. France, 1940.

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29. German soldiers taking a break from fighting as they play with a cute kitten. 1943.

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30. Luftwaffe pilots playing cards during the African campaign, 1942. The plane in the background is a Me-109.

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31. The valuable stallion Nearco is led from his personal bomb shelter on the Beech House stud farm. England, 1941.

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32. President Richard Nixon trying to figure out how to use chopsticks while visiting in China. 1972.

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33. Queen Elizabeth II firing a British L85 battle rifle. Surrey, England,1993.

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34. Soviet soldiers pose with 'Hitler's Globe'. Berlin, Germany, 1945.

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35. Times Square, New York, USA. 1972.

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36. USS Nautilus visiting New York in 1956. It was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.

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37. US Airfoce pilot watches a napalm strike hit from his cockpit. Vitenam, 1963. If you enjoyed it please rate and subscribe for more

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38. A Grumman X-29 experimental aircraft. It was engineered to test a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. The aerodynamic instability of this arrangement increased agility but required the use of computerized fly-by-wire control.

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