31 Photos From the Vault Of History
Some of these images and events are hard to believe.
By Mr_Incognito
Published 9 years ago in Wow
Some of these images and events are hard to believe.
1
Hitler Youth during a fire fighting drill, 1933
2
A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.
3
Black children standing behind a fence of a "whites-only" playground, 1956. Mobile, Alabama, USA.
4
Susan B. Anthony pummeled and arrested for attempting to vote in 1872.
5
"Taking a bath at twelve below zero in December along the Sha O River," Russo-Japanese War, c. 1904.
6
Fidel Castro at the Lincoln Memorial, 1959
7
Young German boy walks beside corpses of hundreds of prisoners from Bergen Belsen, April 20 1945
8
15 Year Old Erika Kornelia Szeles a Hungarian Resistance member who fought against the Soviets during the 1956 revolution
9
Paul Remos, a circus strongman, hoists his son up in the air using only his right arm to feed a giraffe at the London zoo, 1950s
10
LCOL James H. Howard proudly displays his kill markings on the side of his P-51 Mustang on January 11th 1944.
11
A semi-nude FBI agent delivers a 1 million ransom to skyjackers, 1972
12
A little American girl of Japanese ancestry waits with the family baggage before being evacuated to the internment camps in the spring of 1942, California
13
People's temple member holding a sign showing her support for cult leader Jim Jones, 1978
14
Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger, 1983
16
IRA fighter fires an AR-18 at Pro-British troops during skirmishes in County Armin, Northern Ireland, 1972.
17
Police mugshot of Vladimir Lenin at age 25, 1895
18
Four O'Clock shift at the Ford Motor Company, Detroit-ca. 1916
19
David Bowie and Mick Ronson enjoy lunch on the train in 1973
20
An airman being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. The airman is John McCain.
21
"Beer day", the day that prohibition on beer came to an end in Iceland, 1 March, 1989
22
A house that was skewered by a huge tree uprooted by the Johnstown Flood that was caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, 1889
23
The dead body of Che Guevara executed by the Bolivians on Oct. 9, 1967
24
John Belushi poses with Steve Martin on the day he died in 1980.
25
Construction of George Washington's nose on Mount Rushmore in 1935
26
Prisoners beat two guards after their concentration camp is liberated by US forces
27
The models for "American Gothic" 1930s
28
Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.
29
A young boy celebrates the liberation of the Netherlands by Allied Forces with a cigarette, 1945
31
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
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