Memorable Moments in History ~ Captured via Photo
Memorable Moments in History ~ Captured
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon.
She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
Where's the cigar, Fidel?
In 1913, Civil War veterans met in Gettysburg to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the battle that took place there.
Over 50,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded or captured on the farmland located in Pennsylvania.
It is considered to have one of the highest "deaths per acre" count among the war.
In this sea of Nazi Germany, one stands out from the rest.
August Landmesser.
In love with a Jewish woman, whom he would later marry and have children with, kept him from the Nazi ideals.
He was later arrested, for "dishonoring the race."
I'll allow it!
In 1983, a police sting arrested three exotic dancers for breaking the anti-nudity law, preventing them from showing all the goodies.
The judge allowed one of the dancers to bend over to show that her underwear was too big & showed nothing.
Dorothy Counts was the first black girl to attend an all-white school in North Carolina in 1957.
Harassment began when the wife of the leader of the White Citizens Council, encouraged students to keep her out of the school.
Marking one of the first failed attempts at desegregation, she left the school after four days.
Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II met at a London movie premiere of The Battle of the River Plate in 1956 at London’s Leicester Square.
Her then-husband Arthur Miller accompanied Monroe.
Prohibition was one of the biggest policy fails of the US government.
Alcohol consumption increased 70% from 1919-1933.
This building had so much alcohol that it was easier to dump it out the windows than roll the barrels out individually!
On October 26, 1967, Commander John McCain was on his 23rd mission during the Vietnam war.
He was shot down, breaking his right leg and arm into three places.
An angry Vietnamese mob was waiting for him. He was stripped and beaten.
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