Historical images - Images that made history

[Soso]

Scenes from the fall of Sukhumi.

 

[Big Brutus]

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

 

[polaris_VII]

1993 WTC bombing aftermath

 

[Soso]

The many faces of Tiananmen Square.

 

[polaris_VII]

Another WTC bombing photo, this time from that evening with emergency vehicles everywhere.

Columbine High School library after the massacre that took place there. Note the blood stain under one table.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

A priest is holding a dying soldier in his arms as bullets fly around him, Venezuela, 1962.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Another WTC bombing photo, this time from that evening with emergency vehicles everywhere.
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Columbine High School library after the massacre that took place there. Note the blood stain under one table.
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Jfc that Columbine photo is from the late 90s, and it looks so retro. I'm getting old.

 

[Ventrue]

The Killing of Frankie Yale: July 1, 1928

Spoiler: The Killing of Frankie Yale

Frankie Yale was the first homicide in New York where a Thompson was used. He was murdered by Al Capone's gang. There was many reasons to kill Yale and one of them was Yale stole some of Capone's trucks filled with booze and he lied to Capone telling him that somebody else stole them. Al knew he was behind it and warned him several times to stop. Yale thought he could get a way with it since Al Capone was rich and they were old friends back when Capone worked as a bouncer at his nightclub in Brooklyn before Capone moved to Chicago. Al Capone didn't want to kill him, but Frankie Yale had developed animosity towards him because of his influence within the mafia and Frankie may have felt that Al Capone wouldn't have been where he was without him.

Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: February 14, 1929

Spoiler: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

This one is well known but what isn't known is the Thompson used in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre may have been used in Frankie Yale's murder. Three .45 shells picked up at the Yale murder scene and one .45 slug taken out of his body. These were all sent to Chicago for analysis by a ballistics expert. In his findings, the conclusion came out that one of Fred Burke's Thompsons used in the St. Valentine massacre linked itself to Yale's murder. The decision was later questioned by another ballistics expert, but nothing became of it.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

AI used on the Shroud of Turin, image believed to possibly be the face of Jesus Christ:

 

[Soso]

Armenian victims of the Genocide

Spoiler: Armenian Genocide

Shortly sung after the Armenian Genocide

Founding of the First Armenian Republic

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Close-up of Winston Churchill's face:

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

Close-up of Winston Churchill's face:

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HMT Olympic (yes, sister ship of Titanic) during WW1, serving as a troopship. Olympic survived the war, even managing to sink a U-boat that attempted to torpedo her.

 

[Soso]

The last Chinese monarchs, Puyi and Wanrong, later puppets of Manchukuo. Proof that not all monarchs love each other. Puyi was the luckier one and used for propaganda under the PRC after the fall of Manchukuo. Wanrong suffered series of mental breakdowns, opium withdrawals, and died in her own filth within a communist prison.

 

[Myra]

Photos from the Korean War (2/2)

"Corporal Leonard Hayworth … shows his utter frustration as he has crawled back from his position only to learn that the ammo is gone. Coda: At the last moment, supplies arrived and the men were able to hold their position.” From David Douglas Duncan’s 1951 book, This Is War!

An American Marine slept in his halted jeep while a puppy whined in his ear during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.

A wounded Marine was carried on a stretcher improvised from a machine gun, Korea 1950.

Marines filed past a truck loaded with dead troops during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.

The fight for Seoul, Korea, 1950.

LIFE photographer David Douglas Duncan in Korea.

“This" Duncan told LIFE.com of a picture made during the fight for Seoul, “is the best picture I made in Korea of civilians—a family running down stairs, a father holding a baby, tanks firing away. Those tanks are taking fire from North Koreans right down the street!”

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

 

[Soso]

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand always enjoyed hunting

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Churchill sitting outside with Rufus:

 

[Soso]

The 8888 uprising against Ne Win's regime and the disastrous Burmese Way to Socialism

Spoiler: [Gore] A protestor dying from blood loss carried away

Despite the Burmese people's wishes, this resulted in another coup.