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Jorge Rafael Videla takes office as president of Argentina, March 29 1976

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Soldiers, hotel workers and others, some wearing gas masks, kneel for morning prayers on Jan. 18, 1991 in a basement used as a bomb shelter at a hotel in eastern Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War

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As a German air bomb fell into the Lublin Town Hall but didn’t explode, janitor Jan Gilas carries it out barehanded to keep other people inside safe, and dies from stress-induced heart attack just outside. September 9th, 1939. Poland

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On this day 80 years ago the battleship Roma, flagship of the Italian battlefleet, was sunk by a Fritz-X bomb following the Armistice of Cassibile. 9 September 1943

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A child poses for a photograph, whilst the World Trade Centers burn. This photograph was taken on September 11th 2001.

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Fossil skeleton of Archelon, a giant Cretaceous turtle, Weighs more than 2.2 tons and is 4.6 meters long. Yale Museum, 1902.

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Death of Mao Zedong, September 9, 1976

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America’s teenager: Dick Clark, Testing of Dentyne gum advertising, 1956.

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Four ladies posing for a photo in 1968.

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Oldest aerial photograph, This Boston area photo is the oldest aerial photograph in existence. Furthermore, it was taken in October 1860.

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Dr. Hunter S Thompson on his porch in Woody Creek, Colorado. July 1983. (2500 X 1973)

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USAF TSgt Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline 'I Am A Homosexual'. Matlovich was the first named openly gay person to appear on the cover of a US newsmagazine (United States 1975)

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