Historical images - Images that made history

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May 17, 1998: While hung over and on 2.5 hours of sleep, Yankees pitcher David Wells pitches the 15th perfect game in MLB history.

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As the 40th anniversary approaches. OMG I CANT FUCKING BELIEVE IT!!!!!
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School scenes: formerly Main North High School, today it is the Illinois State Police Station, 9511 Harrison St., Des Plaines, IL.

The library was built inside the school’s gym. (All of the actors were given a piece of the banister on their last day of work)
Final scene: football field of Glenbrook North High.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin having a lovely dinner during the Yalta Conference in the Livatia Palace. (February 4, 1945)

The three most powerful men in the world during that time, in the same table.
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
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It was really funny because I was just talking about the historical works of Louis wain in Q&A today . He was famous for making cats cute and loveable pets when at the time people only really thought of them as natural mouse traps.
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Towards the end of his life he went schitzo and made some proto-psychedelic works
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The scoreboard animations of the Astrodome's Home Run Spectacular.

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(Discontinued in 1988 for being too long and annoying to both fans and opposing pitchers, but still paid homage to at Minute Maid Park).
 
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She was one of the most unusual warships ever constructed, and still survives in popular naval myth as one of the worst warships ever built.
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On a trial cruise, they went up the Dniepr very nicely for some distance, till they turned to retire. Then the current caught them, and they were carried out to sea, whirled helplessly round and round, every soul on board helplessly incapacitated by vertigo.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin having a lovely dinner during the Yalta Conference in the Livatia Palace. (February 4, 1945)

The three most powerful men in the world during that time, in the same table.
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Amin Yasister said:
Who's birthday was it?
Look at the number of candles on that cake.
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This is Churchills' birthday, but the picture is from Tehran conference from 1943, not Yalta

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I found the source here
 
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Admiral Richard Byrd’s snow cruiser, built in 1939 to support his third Antarctic expedition, pictured passing through traffic and onlookers in Framingham, Massachusetts, November 12, 1939.
 
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Mugshot of Pep the dog who was "booked" into the Eastern State Penitentiary in 1924.
Along with the mugshot Pep's pawprints we're also taken, he was given an the inmate number C-2559, and was logged into the prison ledger as having received a life sentence for killing a cat.
In reality Pep's former owner was Gifford Pinchot who was the governor of Pennsylvania at the time. The governor freely gave the dog to the prison to boost inmate morale.
 
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August 15th 2008 -

Nils Olav, a King Penguin who resides at Edinburgh Zoo -
Colonel-in-Chief and mascot of Norway's Kings Guard (of Norwegian Army) receiving his knighthood, making him Sir Nils Olav -
Norway's King Harald V quoted as saying "in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood" -

The tradition of Nils Olav has existed since 1972, currently at Sir Nils Olav III.
 
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