Historical images - Images that made history

[MG 620]

 

[Rei is shit]

The photo that changed fire escape regulations

Spoiler

she died

 

[Carlos Thin]

Spoiler: shortly afterwards

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Spoiler: NSFW

Dr. Leonid Rogozov performed a self-surgery to remove his appendix in Novolazarevskaya Station (Antarctica), 1961. He was the only surgeon in the 6th Soviet Expedition, and 2 members (a driver and a meteorologist) had to help him by providing the instruments and holding a mirror to observe non-directly visible areas.

 

[verissimus]

@Apoth42 Yeah, despite being a democrat and supporting FDR's policies, I have huge respect for Truman for his overall level-headed gut instincts and his humble demeanor. We honestly could use more Presidents like him right about now.

Also this. Think I'll be the images of Presidents guy. Some great stuff there.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Ceausescu and his wife executed, Christmas 1989:

Spoiler: NSFW

Assassination of Anwar Sadat, 1981:

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[Silence of the Troons]

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Kazuo Nagano, when he got lynched (In front of around 30 reporters) by 2 mobsters in 1985, after his company "Toyota Shoji* " bilked around 290,000 people (including the elderly) out of their life savings and collected many billion yen. Many people, including his mother, watched the lynching on TV and called the reporters out for doing nothing except standing around with their fingers and mics in their asses.

Spoiler: Kazuo Nagano before he got turned into a spaghetti strainer with a bayonet. He was 32.

The 2 big bad wolves, who were hired by 5 of Nagano's victims, failed to open the door so they broke a window to enter his apartment (in Osaka).

Spoiler: Dat ass

He was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. 1 month later, his company went bankrupt despite his victims didn't recover all their money, the majority of his employees (who've attempted to hide or destroy the evidence overseas) were arrested, and the 2 mobsters only received 8-10 year jail sentences.

Spoiler: NSFW

*= Not related to the car manufacturer "Toyota".

EDIT: Forgot to say the year that this happened. I've also fixed the photos' broken links.
EDIT 2: Added some small details.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

A photo that will make history.

Two men embrace on top a burning wind turbine.

Back story:
Two engineers hug and cling to each other as fire and smoke creeps toward them. They both died after. According to news reports, one of them jumped off the turbine while the other succumbed to the fire. What makes this more heartbreaking is that the two engineers are just aged 19 and 21.

This accident happened at a wind farm in Ooltgensplaat, Holland. A crew of four were conducting routine maintenance at the 67-meter high wind turbine when fire suddenly broke out. Two of the four people were able to escape while the other two got trapped.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

I'm not afraid of heights but that will suck knowing you couldn't get down or any other way of escaping from somewhere very high.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Two japanese Soldiers charging american troops on Saipan 1944:

The photo that changed fire escape regulations
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Spoiler

she died

How the fuck did this happen?

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I think I need some context for this.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

I think I need some context for this.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/28261/1/remembering-japans-badass-70s-schoolgirl-gangs

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

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Somehow, japanese girls were a lot more hardcore in the 70s it seems.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Somehow, japanese girls were a lot more hardcore in the 70s it seems.

I mean all things considered, who is more vile and destructive than empowered teenage girls?
http://scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/cultures/bosozoku-girl-biker-gangs-japan/2/

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Rare photo of a V1 about to hit London.

My grandpa lived on the german coast and he saw them testing the V1 a couple times.

I mean all things considered, who is more vile and destructive than empowered teenage girls?
http://scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/cultures/bosozoku-girl-biker-gangs-japan/2/

Another gang member said of her own initiation, “My ex was Bōsōzoku. One night he got beat up, and we girls went out to find the guy – and beat his face! Then I became a rider.”

That's some Mad Max shit right there.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Santa Maria Tower in Santiago (Chile), when it suffered a fire which killed 11 people (including a fireman) in March 21st, 1981.

Spoiler: One of the 2 victims who jumped from the building. Possibly NSFW.

^ According to a former fireman who worked in the rescue effort, the guy saw the safety net before jumping and thought he could fall in a diagonal way (the firemen can't get too close to the building because of the falling big pieces of glass), but gravity was a bitch and he died after landing in the reflecting pool. Also, his death was recorded.
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Despite the media censorship which existed during Pinochet's dictatorship, it was one of the rare times something graphic was depicted (on live TV, in this case). The second time was when Carlos Pratts (a Chilean Army officer who served as a minister during Allende's government, and ran his ass away after the 1973 coup) and his wife got killed in Argentina by a car bomb planted by the DINA, in 1974. One of the photos which depicted his BBQ'd corpse appeared in a chilean newspaper's front page.

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[Silence of the Troons]

 

[CWCchange]

Truman is an extremely underrated president. He saw the USA through the end of ww2 (learning about the nukes just as he took office) and created the idea of the Berlin Airlift and continued FDR's policies.

@Apoth42 Yeah, despite being a democrat and supporting FDR's policies, I have huge respect for Truman for his overall level-headed gut instincts and his humble demeanor. We honestly could use more Presidents like him right about now.

Except he fired MacArthur and gave us North Korea and Communist China, which were two skips right to Vietnam. The only good thing about him was he wasn't FDR, and the only good thing he did was stop the White House from literally collapsing because it was in utter disrepair.

IIRC, it was a sweatshop fire in NYC during the 1910s that resulted in fire escape regulations. The result of this collapse was the slumlord owner's negligence.

 

[Zaragoza]

April 21, 1995 - The Day America and the rest of the world saw the face behind the destruction of the Murrah Federal Building, and the deaths of 168 people, and injuries of over 600 people.

He heard the screams of the crowd as he made his way toward the waiting van, his shackled feet restricting his ability to move quickly. "Look over here, motherfucker," one man shouted. "Baby killer! Look me in the eye!" ( p. 257 ) Coulson, a hostage rescue expert, was the FBI agent coordinating McVeigh's move out of Perry. As they were about to board the chopper, Coulson put his hand on McVeigh's shoulder and told him that he expected him to act like a gentleman. "Yes sir," McVeigh said, determined not to give the federal agents any reason to rough him up during the trip. In his demented way, this guy is conducting himself like a soldier, Coulson though. ( p. 258 )

American Terrorist (2001)

 

[Pop-Tart]

Young Girls During the Warsaw Uprising

Baldomero Lopez, IIRC the first US Marine Killed in the Korean war.

Self explanatory.

And since I cannot fit this in anywhere else.

Some picture from a Kraut manual. Featuring a pic of a disgusting big nosed hand rubbing G*ermoid.