Louis Armstrong serenades his wife at the Sphinx. Egypt 1961
Joy White stands next to the empty crib meant for her newborn daughter. Her baby, Carlina, was 19 days old when she was kidnapped from a hospital in Harlem, New York. The girl was found alive over 20 years later, 1987.
A defeated German soldier sits in front of a burning Reichstag in Berlin in May, 1945.
50 years ago today the WHO declared small pox eradicated from the Americas, May 31st 1975.
Winston Churchill in Fรผhrerbunker in 1945
American President Woodrow Wilson promoting the League of Nations to a crowd in St. Louis. Despite his efforts, the US didnโt join the organization. Wilson received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work creating the League of Nations in 1920. (1919 photo)
Hรฉlรจne Brabander, resistance fighter, murdered in Auschwitz. January 23rd, 1943.
The Bolden Band, Circa 1905. Buddy Bolden (behind the guitarist) was the first musician credited for playing the music later named Jazz.
The 46'328 ton Titanic launched in Belfast on 30th May 1911. Colourised by Roman Potapov.
Two 12-year-old Viet Cong soldiers during the Vietnam War in 1968, in Dong Nai, Vietnam
a local parisinan man helps a cow to get inside the bus,1966
Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Tsarevich Alexei of Russia in court dressing, circa 1910
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi standing by the ruins of his Bab al-Azizia compound after a series of US airstrikes in 1986. Gaddafi and his family only narrowly escaped the bombing alive.
Emperor Hirohito addresses the public in Hiroshima, Japan, 7 December 1947
Parisian mothers cover their children from German snipers 1944
A group of Ku Klan Klan members burning a cross at ceremony, attended by 1,000 members, during the initiation of 100 new recruits into their organization, Ontario, Canada, 1925.
The Greater East Asia Conference, organised by the Japanese to legitimise their rule, Tokyo, November 5th or 6th 1943. People in the photograph in the comment below.
Soviets open the tomb of Timur in Uzbekistan, the Mongol founder of the Timurid Empire, which apparently started a curse a week before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Timur was reburied a month before the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, which apparently ended the curse. (June 1941)
Mexican dispached soldiers on CDMX reading a newspaper about the tlatelolco tragedy caused by the order of the intime president Gustavo Dรญaz Ordaz in order of give the country a good image for the olimpic games,1968
June 17, 1917 - soldiers looking down at the crater left behind the locknagar mine, One of the biggest non nuclear explosions ever
Comander Shirล ishii,leader of the unit 731,and the worse war criminal of the Empire of japan,1942
Soldiers of the Swedish Landstorm guarding the coast, Furuskรคr, ca. 1916
Willy Brandt (center of photo), future Chancellor of West Germany, attending the Nuremberg Trials as a journalist. During the trial, he would write a book about his experiences in post-WW2 Germany, โCriminals and other Germansโ. He spent 12 years in exile against the Nazi Party. (1946)
โRight to self-determination for Alsace-Lorraine!โ German protest in Berlin against the French annexation of AlsaceโLorraine as part of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
USS England (DE-635), one of the most successful submarine killers of WW2, off San Francisco, 9 February 1944.
One of the only known photos of Subha Talfah, the mother of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, taken sometime in the 1950's or 60's. Subha unsuccessfully tried to abort Saddam before he was born.
โLong Live Stalinโ Chairman of China, Mao Zedong, at a CCP rally celebrating the 70th birthday of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (December 1949)
Percy Fawcett, who disappeared 100 years ago today and was never seen again whilst on an expedition into the Amazon Rainforest looking for a lost city he referred to as โZโ. May 1925,
A Japanese-American man poses with a guitar in Camp Savage, Minnesota, 1943
A French soldier riding a Vespa 150 TAP anti-tank scooter. The vehicle, equipped with a detachable 75 mm (3.0 in) recoilless gun, was designed with paratroopers in mind. 1950's
Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Discoverer of Gigantopithecus and pioneering paleo-anthropologist, circa 1938
John F. Schrank after his arrest. On October 14, 1912, Schrank shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel.
PFC Raymond Bowman (R) and Lehmann Riggs (L) with their 30. Cal machine gun on a balcony in Leipzig, Germany, on April 18, 1945. Just minutes later Bowman was killed by a German sniper on that balcony, just 16 days after his 21st birthday.
โWe, the collective farmers, will liquidate the Kulaks as a classโ A Soviet peasant rally against upper class peasants (Kulaks) during the collectivization of farmlands, Soviet Russia, 1931
After being repatriated by the British military, Axis soldiers of Yugoslav citizenship await their summary executions in a partisan transit camp. Bodies were hidden in caves and abandoned mines, until mass graves were exhumated in the 1990s-2000s. (May 1945)
29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest.
Free City of Danzig President, Hermann Rauschning (4th from left), during his short time as a member of the NSDAP. He later moved to the United States and criticized Nazism during WW2. He never returned to Germany. (1933)
Photo of Polish citizens signing up for employment at a German established Arbeitsamt (labour office) in occupied ลรณdลบ. Poles were promised acceptable conditions and wages if they went to work in Germany, but they were abused and rarely paid. (1939)
A brawl in the Korean National Assembly over the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun, later overturned in Constitutional Court. Seoul, 2004.
[NSFW] South African Police take cover from random gunfire during the Shell House Massacre. Johannesburg, 28 March, 1994.
Huge German sleigh depot on Eastern Front 1915-16 WWI photograph
National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln's ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 - Bettmann / Getty
Photo of a Soviet soldier holding a Hungarian soldier at gunpoint after finding looted property in his luggage, 1942
Residents of the Pitcairn Islands on a British naval ship, 1916. They are all descendants of the survivors from the Mutiny on the Bounty.
The police applicant photo of Gerard Schaefer. He got the job, but was fired for gathering info on female traffic violators to call them for dates. After taking a new police job, he was convicted of killing two teenage girls. He is now suspected of up to 26 other murders, Florida, 1970.
Crown Prince Leka Zogu I of Albania, son of King Zog with his wife Princess Susan, 1970's. Leka was forced to go into exile by the Albanian communists when he was just a few days old, but returned in the 1990's amidst the decline of communism. He was noted for his enormous 6'9 stature
Doughboys of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division in a former German dugout, Germany, 1918
Russian children standing by the decapitated head of a statue of Tsar Alexander III during the Russian revolution, 1918.
![[NSFW] South African Police take cover from random gunfire during the Shell House Massacre. Johannesburg, 28 March, 1994.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cv67!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4c941a5-4561-484d-a2d1-88f63066c067_612x414.jpeg "[NSFW] South African Police take cover from random gunfire during the Shell House Massacre. Johannesburg, 28 March, 1994.")
