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Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) meeting an unnamed boy in a wheelchair during his visit to The Children's Institute (formerly The Memorial Home for Crippled Children) in Pittsburgh. May 15, 1978
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Yugoslav tennis player Monica Seles after a knife attack, Hamburg, 30 April, 1993. Gunter Parche, a crazy fan of Steffi Graf, her previous rival, ran onto the court with a knife and attacked the tennis player. The wound turned out to be minor, but Seles had a mental breakdown.
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German tennis player Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters, which he defeated in a match that took place because of the sisters' boast that they would beat any man players except the top 200. The German drank two shandy before the match. 1998
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A wildcat strike at Cologne, Germany's Ford factory in 1973 by Turkish labourers to protest poor working conditions.
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An African man points a defendant at the Luanda Trial. The trial is only time that anyone has been tried for "crimes against peace" since World War Two. Thirteen Western mercenaries, mostly from Britain and the United States, were tried by an Angolan tribunal for war crimes, 1976 .
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U.S. soldier standing in a truckload of captured gold recovered from Saddam Hussein's regime in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, late 2003. Although exact numbers are unknown, some estimate that during his 24-year reign, Saddam built a personal fortune as large as $40,000,000,000 (1125 X 1584)
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Rare 1950's photo of Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin's head executioner, in old age. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the "Katyn Massacre," Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history. (538 X 800)
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Hitler plays with young Helga Goebbels at the waterfront 1935 (778-1200)
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US ambassador to China James Sasser peers through a heavily-damaged door of the US embassy in Beijing on May 10, following two days of attacks of the embassy by Chinese protesters in response to the American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on May 7 - 1999
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Rebecca Ann Felton. On 21 November 1922, she became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. Felton was a white supremacist and the last slave owner to serve in Senate who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching African Americans (c1922)
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat addresses the Knesset. On 20 November 1977, Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel (Jerusalem 1977)
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