Historical images - Images that made history

[The Last Stand]

So, this is the first uploaded Internet image.

 

[AnOminous]

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"San Francisco in ruins" photographed by George R. Lawrence after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. He mounted the camera onto a kite and flew it above the bay with makeshift stabilizers to keep the image from being all blurry. Can't imagine how difficult it was.

Kite photography is really easy to do now. You can even buy kits. Similarly balloon photography.

Here's a photograph taken by an amateur from space, or at least near space.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald 4 years before it sank off the coast of Michigan in Lake Superior.

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The Edmund FItzgerald being launched in 1958
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I was going to do a Fitz picture today as it was 46 years ago today she went down.
but since pictures of hers were done recently here is the Charles S. Price, all hands lost. One of a dozen (known of) ships lost on November 9 1913 from the 1913 Great Lakes Storm (okay turns out the storm lasted from Nov 6 - Nov. 11 with ships sinking between those days, not all were lost on the 9th).

 

[Dagobert]

Kite photography is really easy to do now. You can even buy kits. Similarly balloon photography.

Here's a photograph taken by an amateur from space, or at least near space.
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Continuing the running theme of images from high up, this is the first image of Earth taken from space.

 

[millennialcat96]

A view of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch, as seen from the UCF Knights' stadium in Orlando on Nov. 15, 2020.

A missile that landed on a street is surrounded by barricade tape in Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh, on Oct. 16, 2020. The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan reignited in late September, quickly escalating from the frontlines to populated towns and villages.

A deserted walkway in Venice's St. Mark's Square in March, 2020, as Italy was the European epicenter of the pandemic.

Two children pass members of a Taliban Red Unit, an elite force, in the Alingar District of Afghanistan's Laghman Province on March 13, 2020.

A high-rise in Tianjin, China, where the police have been too overstretched during the coronavirus outbreak to handle domestic violence calls, on Feb. 14, 2020.

 

[Hummingbird]

A WW2 vet reunites with the Italians he saved when they were kids.

Then...

Now...

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Happy UDI day! God Bless the Rhodesians

 

[Realistic Elephant]

Happy UDI day! God Bless the Rhodesians

I have to admit I find it ironic that the first British colony in history that unilaterally declared independence not only created the abomination known as the UN but actively worked to harm the second British colony that attempted to do the same.

Image tax, the Belgian Congo in the 1950s. back when the roads and rails were operating properly. Needless to say, granting independence to a country where barely more than a dozen Congolese men had a university education was a bad idea.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

It's also Armistice Day!

 

[Answer]

Nikita Khrushchev gesturing toward a painting at the Moscow Manege on December 1st, 1962.

The Khrushchev Thaw had allowed Soviet artists to deviate from the traditional Socialist Realism style strictly enforced under Stalin, and many began dabbling in abstract and avant-garde styles. However, Khrushchev himself was a staunch conservative and despised the modern art movements that were now reaching the USSR. In an event that has since been dubbed the "Manege Affair", on December 1st 1962 Khrushchev and other Communist Party leadership visited an art exhibition marking the "30th Anniversary of the Moscow Artists Union" during which Khrushchev spent the entire tour viciously attacking every abstract and avant-garde piece on display, sometimes even summoning the artist respobsible for a dressing-down. At the end of the tour, Khrushchev angrily turned to the exhibition host and said:

"Don't you know how to paint? My grandson will paint it better! What is this? Are you men or damned pederasts!? How can you paint like that? Do you have a conscience? That's it, Belyutin, I'm telling you as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers: The Soviet people doesn't need all this. I'm telling you! Forbid! Prohibit everything! Stop this mess! I order! I say! And check everything! On the radio, on television, and in print, uproot all sympathizers of this!"

Khrushchev concluded his visit with "gentlemen, we are declaring war on you", a promise he certainly kept as he quickly began tightening the Party's grip over culture, and the Manege Affair came to be seen as the beginning of the end of the Thaw.

If you're interested, Khrushchev's comments during the tour were written down and can be read here.

 

[Gunga Dan]

A young Hitler cheers the start of WWI, 1914.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Kim Il-sung and Nicolae Ceausescu

 

[Foltest]

A young Hitler cheers the start of WWI, 1914.

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Ain't that picture a fake or something like that?
That Hitler own personal photograher faked it or something like that.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev checking out american actress Jill St. John(who was dating Henry Kissinger also was present at the scene) at a pool party at Nixon's home in San Clemente, California in 1973(?).

Here's Henry Kissinger confronting him with Richard Nixon

 

[AmazingEagle]

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Crown Prince in Iran, 1939.

 

[Lee Crabb]

French cuirassiers (heavy cavalry) circa WW1. Still wearing Napoleonic style uniforms (which would be replaced a few months into the war).

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

Scottish regiment before and after the first World War

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Scottish regiment before and after the first World War

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Were these Highlanders?

Highlander cleaning his rifle, June 1916

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

Were these Highlanders?
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Highlander cleaning his rifle, June 1916

I'm not sure, but they seem to be wearing kilts. I'll tell you one thing, I don't like the odds proposed in that picture one bit

 

[speedweed]

The Bayeux Tapestry: a 70 metre long tapestry depicting William the Conqueror earning his namesake. It was completed only a few years after the battle of Hastings in 1066 where William's men slew the last Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson on the slopes of Senlac hill. The Norman victory that day is widely thought of as the founding of England as a nation, though their Norman conquerors are far from lionised.

Pictured below is the death of King Harold Godwinson: