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Elisabeth Montgomery, on the set of "Bewitched" in 1967. .
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Peasant children lined up for food hand during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. The consensus is that around 30 million people died in the famine. The famine was caused by communist policies during the failed Great Leap Forward economic campaign and natural disasters.
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the controls of a BOAC Boeing 314A flying boat, 16 January 1942
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Ali Maow Maalin, the last known person in the world with smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery (Merca, Somalia 1977)
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Sgt. Rinaldo J. Martini of the C Company, 27th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division takes aim with an M1 rifle while seated on Japanese mortar crates. This photograph was taken after he earned the Silver Star on the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945.
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The wreck of U-118, a German U-boat surrendered at the end of the First World War, which ran aground, as a result of a towing cable snapping, at Hastings in January 1919.
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China's Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua (L) and UN representative Huang Hua (R) laugh as they take their seats at the UN General Assembly for the first time. On 25 Oct 1971, the motion to recognize the PRC as the sole legal China was passed as GA Resolution 2758 (New York City, NY 1971)
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One of four known photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt in a wheelchair. Taken at Hyde Park, New York, with Ruthie Bie and dog Fala, February 1941
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