Historical images - Images that made history

[Carlos Thin]

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Was this ever actually used by The Dead Kennedys or was it just an internet creation? (I'd call it a meme but it's at least 20+ years old...)

 

[AnOminous]

Was this ever actually used by The Dead Kennedys or was it just an internet creation? (I'd call it a meme but it's at least 20+ years old...)

This has been around since at least the '80s. I saw it on someone's wall in '87 or so. I got a copy of it from some Internet archive (maybe funet.fi) in '92 or so.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Joseph McCarthy reacting to a news hit piece about him:

 

[Lovely Kin]

A rare picture of Rosemary Kennedy post-lobotomy. After her going through a frontal lobotomy since she was "difficult", she was immediately put into a home, and treated as a dirty secret. To the right is an image of her before she went through the procedure semi-awake

 

[clara red bottoms]

Ronald Reagan delivering his famous "Tear Down This Wall" speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on June 12, 1987.
The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Berlin(best berlin).
Two years after this speech, on November 9, the East German government opened the country's borders with West Germany and openings were made in the Berlin Wall with the wall torn down entirely by the end of 1990.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Kaiser Wilhelm II with the German army during a military parade

Pic goes hard, not gonna lie.

 

[Lovely Kin]

The often debated pictures of the last queen of Mongolia. Genepil was executed while pregnant underneath the accusation of being a traitor and spying for the Japanese

 

[Yellow Rose Of Texas]

SS-Standartenführer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp,Elijah Jordan Millar/ IronShart/rohmstuff "alleged" great grandfather in the 5th SS Panzer-Division Wiking.

Although I'm highly doubtful about his claim,I think it's still interesting enough to share what I find during my autistic digging.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

President Reagan with one of his pets, Lucky:

 

[Lovely Kin]

The 1999 bombings of Yugoslavia by NATO



The aftermath of the ruins NATO left behind

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Wilfred Batty posing with his recently killed Thylacine in 1930, little did he or anyone knew this was the last-known wild Tasmanian tiger.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Boris Yeltsin visiting a Texas supermarket:

 

[Lovely Kin]

Pictures of North Vietnam before the war with the United States


Life in Hanoi, the latter picture shows a celebration for land reform, and a Catholic family preparing for the new year.


Enjoying time at the park during the rare moments of peace, and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The Highway of Death, Persian Gulf War.

Boris Yeltsin visiting a Texas supermarket:

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If I recall that was the moment he realized that communism has failed and the US far surpassed them in standard of living.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Misrata Libya.

 

[Lovely Kin]

The Chinese Civil War resulted in countless deaths, and many destroyed villages homes, and families

A Chinese woman mourns the loss of her village after destruction from the fighting between the KMT and communists. Villagers attempting to form a blockade to prevent any destruction.
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Those who were left as refugees from the constant fighting and having to flee their homes. Students who were kept as political prisoners

As the civil war was coming to an end, many of those opposed to communist rule fled to Hong Kong or Taiwan as communist rule became imminent.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Pictures of North Vietnam before the war with the United States

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Enjoying time at the park during the rare moments of peace, and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh.

I wish we had Getty Images back then so we could take in the fateful meeting between Woodrow Wilson and Ho Chi Minh. Just a snubbed handshake that's going to cause 50 straight years of dogshit U S. politics. That was a real “Trump at the Correspondents Dinner” moment.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

(One of) the very first picture take of an Pope, Pius IX in this case.

In addition, this is Cardinal Giuseppe Pecci, who at the time thought photography was bullshit and that it would never get big.

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

The Shah of Iran dressed for winter in ski goggles.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Frances Virginia Harris, from Georgia in the US at the end of the 19th Century


The "I can fix her" eyes go back a long way.