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The Statue of Liberty's torch is parked in front of
the western side of Madison Square in 1876.
 A German Tank almost falls off a Russian bridge 
on July 4, 1941.
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The first armed airplane of the Serbian army
in 1915.
An alien mugshot, part of a
1958 hoax in Bad Axe, Michigan 
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Women welders at Lincoln Motor Company in 1918.
Times Square in 1922.
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The dedication of the Washington Monument in 1885
The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964.
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World's first airplane design without a propeller. 
The Henry Coanda 1910.
Smuggling beer during 
prohibition 1920-1933.
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The crew of the USS Lexington abandon ship 
following torpedo strikes on May 9th, 1942.
Inside the turrets of the USS Massachusetts, 
1898.
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Trapeze mining in Bonne Terre, Missouri 
1917
The world's largest nuclear test, the Tsar Bomba, leaves behind
a 95-kilometre high mushroom cloud, NovayaZemlya , October 1961
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Julia Clark in her Exhibition Plane, 1911.
Miss Clark was the third woman to receive a pilot's license from the Aero Club of America.
She was the first female pilot to die in an air crash in the United States in 1912.
Southwest Airlines 
stewardesses
in 1962.
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Greyhound in 1923.
Segregated cab service in Alabama in 1962.
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The first photo of the Earth from the moon 
taken by Lunar Orbiter in 1966.
The first image of Titanic since its sinking in 1912. 
Taken in 1986.
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The aftermath of the 
1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Ansel Adams, 1979. He broke his nose during the 
1906 San Francisco earthquake, and never had it fixed.
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The first known selfie
taken by Nasseraldin shah 
sometime between 1851 and 1896.
Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. 
More than likely the earliest born
individual captured on film.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor taken from
one of the attacking Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941.
"Högertrafikomläggningen" - the day Sweden switched
from driving on the left to driving on the right (1967).
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Construction of The Lincoln Memorial in 1921.
The London Underground in 1890.
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The funeral of Victor Hugo
in 1885.
The PGM-11 "Redstone" - the World's First Nuclear
Missile displayed in Grand Central Station, July 7, 1957
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Directional sound finders used to
detect incoming enemy planes in 1917.
Malcolm X tries to calm Muhammad Ali 
in 1964.
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A balancing act atop the Empire State Building in 1934.
Illuminated tires invented by Goodyear in 1961.
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Hitler practices a speech in front of a mirror in 1925.
The Dalai Lama at age 2 in 1937.
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Paul McCartney takes a selfie 
in 1959.
Burning the albums of The Beatles
in Alabama in 1966.


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