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U.S. battleships are burning and about to sink after the Japanese attack on Pearl...
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Wanted poster circulated after the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., March 1932.
FBI
Charles Lindbergh testifying at the murder trial of Bruno Hauptmann, January 1935.
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Contralto Marian Anderson singing for some 75,000 gathered at the Lincoln Memorial...
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A group portrait of Dachau inmates in May 1945, soon after the Nazi concentration...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William and Dorothy McLaughlin
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped...
U.S. Air Force photograph
On August 9, 1945, three days after detonating a uranium-fueled atomic bomb over...
U.S. Department of Defense
Jackie Robinson shown on April 15, 1947.
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Indian soldiers walking through the debris of a building in the Chowk Bijli Wala...
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A tank unit of the Israeli defense forces preparing to continue its advance during...
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Pres. John F. Kennedy riding through the streets of Dallas with his wife, Jacqueline,...
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Roger Bannister was the first person to run a mile in under four minutes.
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Mamie Till (center) with other mourners at the funeral of her son, Emmett Till, in...
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lauren and Michael Lee (2013.92)
Ed Sullivan (left) greeting the Beatles before their live television appearance on...
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Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio in the judge's chambers in San Francisco where they...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his âI Have a Dreamâ speech in 1963 in front of the...
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Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson shown in the Oval Office in 1968.
LBJ Library photo by Kevin Smith
Cover of Newsweek magazine from May 18, 1970, addressing the Kent State...
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U.S. space shuttle Challenger just seconds after its explosive destruction...
NASA
A Palestinian terrorist appearing on a balcony in the Munich Olympic Village, where...
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Richard Nixon saying goodbye to members of his cabinet, on August 9, 1974. His daughter...
Oliver F. AtkinsâWhite House Photo/Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
Elvis Presley performing onstage during his âAloha from Hawaiiâ concert at the International...
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Former Beatle John Lennon in his adopted home city of New York.
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Bodies of members of Peoples Temple who died after their leader, Jim Jones, ordered...
Frank JohnstonâThe Washington Post/Getty Images
One of the hostages held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran being displayed, blindfolded...
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Pres. Anwar Sadat of Egypt was assassinated on October 6, 1981, by members of the...
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Michael's Jackson's 14-minute âThrillerâ music video helped cement MTV in the national...
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East and West Berliners gathering on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after...
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Hijacked United Airlines flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower of the...
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The beating of Rodney King by California police officers in 1991 was one of the first...
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George Holliday used his new video camera to record officers beating and kicking...
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American basketball player Magic Johnson, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to five...
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Robert Kardashian (center) with his friend and murder defendant O.J. Simpson (right),...
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The north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was blown away by a homemade...
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Princess Diana visiting London Lighthouse, a center and hospice for people with HIV...
Jayne FincherâPrincess Diana Archive/Hulton Royals Collection/Getty Images
(From left) Prince Charles (later Charles III), Prince Harry, Charles Spencer, Prince...
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Three teenagers consoling each other at a vigil in Denver for the victims of the...
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Elections officials in Broward county, Florida, review ballots by hand in November...
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Aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia.
Philip A. McDaniel/U.S. Navy
A flooded neighborhood in Port Sulphur, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, after Hurricane...
Mark Moran/NOAA
U.S. Pres. George W. Bush surveying the damage to New Orleans caused by Hurricane...
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President-elect Barack Obama at an election-night rally in Chicago's Grant Park on...
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Apple's first iPhone featured a touchscreen interface and Internet connectivity....
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Protesters demonstrate against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo in early...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listening as Democratic presidential...
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Some 600,000 small white flags dot the grass of the National Mall near the Washington...
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The death of George Floyd focused global attention on institutional racism, racial...
Ben Crump Law. Reproduced by permission
Protesters carrying Black Lives Matter signs at a demonstration against police brutality...
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Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the...
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