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. 
The first armed airplane of the
Serbian army in 1915. 
Women welders at Lincoln Motor
Company in 1918. 
Times Square in 1922.
The dedication of the Washington
Monument in 1885. 
Race official Jock Semple tries to
push Kathy Switzer off the road after she attempts to run the Boston Marathon,
which at the time was men's only. Number 390 pushing Jock away was Kathy's
boyfriend. 1967. 
The first human x-ray taken by
Wilhelm Roentgen in 1896, for his efforts Roentgen was the recipient of the
first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. The image is of his wife's
hand. 
The Great Alaskan Earthquake of
1964. 
Trapeze mining in Bonne Terre
Missouri 1917. 
The world's largest nuclear test,
the Tsar Bomba, leaves behind a 95-kilometre high mushroom cloud, Novaya Zemlya,
October 1961. 
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. 
World's first airplane design
without a propeller. The Henry Coanda 1910. 
Greyhound in 1923.
The crew of the USS Lexington
abandon ship following torpedo strikes on May 9th, 1942.
The first photo of the Earth from
the moon taken by Lunar Orbiter in 1966. 
The first known selfie taken by
Nasseraldin shah sometime between 1851 and 1896. 
Segregated cab service in Alabama in
1962. 
The first image of Titanic since its
sinking in 1912. Taken in 1986. 
The attack on Pearl Harbor taken
from one of the attacking Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941.
Pacific Southwest Airlines
stewardesses in 1962. 
Inside the turrets of the USS
Massachusetts, 1898. 
The funeral of Victor Hugo in
1885. 
Hannah Stilley, born 1746,
photographed in 1840. More than likely the earliest born
individual captured on film.
A balancing act atop the Empire
State Building in 1934. 
Ansel Adams, 1979. He broke his nose
during the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, and never had it
fixed.
"Högertrafikomläggningen" -
the day Sweden switched from driving On the left to driving on the right
(1967).
Malcolm X tries to calm Muhammad Ali
in 1964. 
The Dalai Lama at age 2 in
1937. 
An alien mugshot, part of a 1958
hoax in Bad Axe, Michigan. 
Hitler practices a speech in front
of a mirror in 1925. 
The London Underground in
1890. 
Paul McCartney takes a selfie in
1959. 
Burning the albums of The Beatles in
Alabama in 1966. 
Smuggling beer during prohibition
sometime between 1920 and 1933. 
Illuminated tires invented by
Goodyear in 1961. 
Directional sound finders used to
detect incoming enemy planes in 1917. 
The aftermath of the 1906 San
Francisco Earthquake. 
The PGM-11 "Redstone" - the World's
First Nuclear Missile Displayed in Grand Central Station, July
7, 1957.
Construction of The
Lincoln Memorial in 1921. |
