Historical images - Images that made history

[Ponzo]

Otoya Yamaguchi (17) in 1960 stabbing Inejirō Asanuma, the leader of the socialist party of Japan with a samurai sword, ending Japans path towards communism.

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[NerdShamer]

Otoya Yamaguchi (17) in 1960 stabbing Inejirō Asanuma, the leader of the socialist party of Japan with a samurai sword, ending Japans path towards communism.

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Considering how a lot of Japan's military officers were descended from samurai families, this is to be expected and kind of based.

 

[TowinKarz]

Chilkoot Pass, Alaska - 1898

Hundreds of miners hoping to strike it rich in the Yukon Gold Rush make the tedious climb out of the US and into British Columbia.

Canadian authorities would deny you entry if you did not bring at least a year's worth of food and other supplies to ensure your nominal survival in the backwoods.

Each man had to make countless trips up and down the slope, carrying 40 to 50 pounds each time, until they had moved all their required gear, (roughly 1,000 pounds total) to the top.

A step out of line to take a breather meant you might have to wait an hour or more before someone feeling generous would stop their climb to let you back in.

By the time of this picture, a cable tramway had been installed to help ease the slog, and eventually, the White Pass & Yukon Railroad would be constructed nearby and mercifully make this back-breaking section of trail obsolete.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

Two absolute legends in their respective fields: Sam Cooke and Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali in early 1964.

 

[Adolphin]

German firemen (Feuerpolizei) during the Third Reich. It should be noted that those specific helmets stayed in service until the 90s.

Troops of the paramilitary unit "SS Heimwehr Danzig" approach the Danzig Polish Post Office taking cover behind their ADGZ armoured car.

 

[LeChampion1992]

1st picture ~Local people gather around in Kenosha. Little did one of them know that whey would be famous that day. 2020

2nd picture is of the 1968 riots in color and yes the hippies started throwing stuff at the police officers first. -1968

3rd image is of the Taliban raising the flag of jihad. -2021

The fourth image is of the Waco siege in 1993. The man seen in the picture would die moments later.

The fifth and final image is Kent state incident in 1970 colorized.

Also when one looks at these pictures in color the past seems much closer towards us then one realizes.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

This crew was working on the Woolworth Bldg, NYC, in 1926

Marion Post Wolcott
August 1940
Morehead, Kentucky


By standing on a nearby bridge to get a wide-angle perspective, Marion Post Wolcott created a photograph where the actions of the religious community are highlighted. She presents a congregation of Primitive Baptists as they establish a close bond between their world and the world of the New Testament by baptizing their new members as John baptized Jesus in the River Jordan. At this moment, the people being baptized are separated from the congregation, but they will eventually join it as full members of the church.

Liberty Congregational Church in Georgia

Does anyone have any old photos of church congregations from the first half of the 20th century? It would be useful for a project that I'm working on.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Pol Pot and Deng Xiaoping

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia

 

[Sicko Hunter]

 

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Leon Trotsky going out fishing in his exile prior to his death

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

From the 1983 US invasion of Grenada?

 

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PLA cavalry in the aftermath of the first Chinese nuclear weapon detonation, Lop Nur, 16 October 1964

 

[mortyposter]

Rick and Morty's first episode airing on live Television.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Today officially marks 20 years after GTA III was released to the public.

By the way, have some MISSION PASSED! music.

 

[TowinKarz]

March 4, 1941 British and Norwegian special forces execute Operation Claymore - a surprise early morning attack on the Lofoten Islands in occupied Norway. It featured a shore bombardment by the Royal Navy followed by the landing of demolition and raiding parties to destroy the local infrastructure. Catching the German defenders completely by surprise, the raiders managed to sink 8 German merchant ships, blew up a fish oil factory (used for making explosives) and scored a major intelligence coup when parts of a German Enigma encryption machine and several naval code books were discovered in the wreckage of a destroyed fishing trawler. They also captured 228 German prisoners and several members of Quisling's collaborationist regime.

So thorough was their success that one British trooper couldn't help himself and dashed off a quick message to Berlin from the telegraph office before withdrawing back to England with his comrades:

 

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[Spermatozoa]

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Is this the propaganda pic one, where he blew himself up to be larger than dude and moved himself closer?

 

[Gunga Dan]

Crew Of The Japanese Carrier Zuikaku Give One Final Banzai Cheer Before The Ship Sinks, 1944​

 

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Shigeru Miyamoto at e3 2001 showing off Pikmin and the GameCube. Happy 20th anniversary Pikmin!