Historical images - Images that made history

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Happy day after Halloween everybody!
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Albert Einstein's office on the day of his death. The photographer who took this photo allegedly bribed his way inside with a bottle of Scotch.
Some people on the Internet have tried to figure out what exactly is written on the board. It might or might not have been a part of the attempt of finding a unifying theory. It looks like he was rewriting his general relativity in a slightly different way - perhaps to explain it to a student, perhaps to check off another dead end, or for some other reason entirely.
 
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Today marks officially 30 years since both the Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest would release their critically acclaimed and celebrated albums, Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers and Midnight Marauders, on the same day.
 
Today in 1917, the French ship, the SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian Ship, the SS Imo. The Mont-Blanc was heavily laden with mutations, the fire and subsequent explosion completely leveled a half mile radius, killing almost 2000 people.
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Rail dispatcher Patrick Coleman saw the fire and set word via telegraph to stop all trains headed for Halifax. His last message was "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
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Here is 7 year old Drew Barrymore gifting Princess Di a plush E.T. at a screening in London. - 1982

From left : Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Steven Spielberg, and Lady Diana.
 
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The last moments of Diana, her companion, Dodi Al-Fayed, chauffeur Henri Paul, and sole survivor and bodyguard, Trevor-Reese Jones. On the left.
At 12:19 am after diner, plan was to go Dodi’s apartment and elude paparazzi, using a decoy car. But it didn’t work.
An ill fated attempt to ditch the paparazzi. They began, fleeing down through the Pont de I’Alma tunnel. At 65mph, their WI40 Mercedes Benz hit a Fiat, then proceeded into a concrete pillar.
Three photographers Jacques Langevin, Christian Martinez ,and Frabrice Chassery were convicted of invasion of privacy.
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Nazi chief Reinhard Heydrich playing boxe with his son.
He even pretends he beat him. Difficult to think this goofy dad could be such a mean SOB.
 
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