Historical images - Images that made history

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Murder of Benigno Aquino Jr upon his return to the Philippines.

People Power Revolution 1986.

Benigno Aquino's wife Corazon Aquino takes office after a snap election. The Snap election was taken on by the dictator Marcos because of a dare by an American journalist. Low voter turnout and a walkout of vote counters led to peaceful protests. The military sided with the protesters and 3 days later she was inaugurated.

She had no experience and was a housewife so corruption flourished under her reign.

 

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Don't they know that the hijab is a symbol of freedom and liberty?

 

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Don't they know that the hijab is a symbol of freedom and liberty?

Killing the Ba'athists was a mistake.

 

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Władysław Kozakiewicz (a polish athlete), when he gave the bras d'honneur to the Soviet crowd at the 1980 Olympics.

While he was competing with Soviet pole vaulter Konstantin Volkov, the crowd booed and jeered at him, and after winning the gold medal he replied them by giving "the arm". A soviet ambassador got butthurt and demanded that Kozakiewicz be stripped of his medal for "insulting soviet people", but the polish government used the "involuntary muscle spasm caused by exertion" excuse.

 

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A samurai woman in 1860.

 

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D̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ ̶K̶o̶r̶p̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶K̶r̶i̶e̶g̶ German soldiers charging out of a cloud of poison gas, France 1915

 

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South Vietnamese babies being transported to the U.S. by plane as part of Operation Babylift (1975)

 

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Well, I figured that Pearl Harbor and the propaganda was playing a huge role in this, but somehow, it's hard to believe that that's enough to make people committ such atrocities as putting the skulls of defeated enemies on your tanks or some of the other shit that went down.

Fun Fact concerning the anti-jap propaganda:
It was so vicious in how it depicted asian people in general, there was an actual fear that if they don't dial back, they might end up encouraging some people in Asia to switch sides and fight for the Japanese instead.

Maybe things like the Nanking Masacre and sexual slavery of women in China and Korea weren't helping their image. The Japanese government hasn't apologized to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

Suggested watching (Japanese war crimes, from a Japanese soldiers perspective)

 

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Ghost Army tactical unit that used inflatable tanks etc. for deception during WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Army





Wojtek the bear enlisted as a private in the Polish armed forces and later promoted to corporal. He would help carry ammunition and enjoyed eating cigarettes and drinking beer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)





Emblem of 22nd Artillery Supply Company

 

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Mongolian method of execution

US Navy blimp L-8, found drifting without a crew in San Francisco, 1942. The crew was never found.

Policemen in Seattle wearing masks during the 1918 influenza epidemic

Robert Ripley with a mummified fetus

 

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Prototype 1911

Old gun ads

Receipt for John Wayne's Colt AR15

Roof Koreans during the LA riots

 

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Another memorable part of the LA riots- not a photo but a video:

During the lootings a black business owner confronted the people in his own community who had looted and destroyed his business. It's a heartbreaking example that shows how so many people in that area didn't even care about their own community and didn't care what happened to their own neighbors because they could get free shit.

 

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Another memorable part of the LA riots- not a photo but a video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wxK8VzylOrQ
During the lootings a black business owner confronted the people in his own community who had looted and destroyed his business. It's a heartbreaking example that shows how so many people in that area didn't even care about their own community and didn't care what happened to their own neighbors because they could get free shit.

Ah yes, the convenient excuse of "riots against oppression" to loot your own neighborhood. No better example for crab mentality than that.
Also a great example of Motte and Bailey rhetoric.
People say they fight oppression and racism, but loot stores. You point out how damaging that is for their own community and they go "what, so you are in favor of oppression and racism?".

Heartbreaking, how this ruins people who try to work for actual improvement.

 

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Czechoslovakia, 1968

 

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February 23, 1939: Shirley Temple presents Walt Disney a custom-made Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

I think there's an image of the first showing of Snow White Walt himself attended with his wife, but I can't remember if it was ever shown in the documentary or if it was just talked about. But it was mentioned that the whole time he was tightly gripping her hand because of how anxious he was about the audience's reaction.
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Carthay Circle Theatre for the premiere of Snow White, December 21, 1937.

 

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Weird old advertisements:

 

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Prototype stamped 1911:

 

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Historical selfies

 

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Edit: Whoops, this was supposed to be in Random images. Here's an image of Pope Leo XIII to make up for that