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A ground-level angle of Tank Man, he is standing on the left. The Chang'an Avenue, Beijing, June 5th, 1989.

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Chiang Kai-shek pays respects at ancestors' shrine the final time before leaving mainland China for Taiwan - Zhejiang, 1949,

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin, dancing at a rock concert. Rostov, 1996.

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Japanese Ground Self Defense Force personnel (in olive-drab) and Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department officers (in white) entering subway cars contaminated during the sarin gas attack carried out by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, March 20, 1993

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80 years ago today, on March 20, 1945, Adolf Hitler was photographed inspecting bomb damage to the Reich Chancellery dining room. This is believed to be one of the last images ever taken of Hitler.

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Teenager water skis as Mt St Helens erupts from behind. May 18, 1980 (555x680)

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President George W. Bush signs the "No Child Left Behind" Act in 2002, the last major overhaul to the federal Department of Education.

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Photo of Jews, accused of being involved with the NKVD, before being massacred by Lithuanian paramilitaries and German soldiers in Lietūkis garage, June 1941 (1771x1200)

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A Soviet soldier announcing the formal surrender of defeated Germany on the streets of Berlin, May 1945 (1140x750)

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Two juvenile thieving friends are shackled as punishment. Old Street, London, England, 1872.

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World War II war correspondent Ernie Pyle shortly after he was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the island of Ie Shima on April 18, 1945.

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“Parade of the Defeated” German POWs captured by Soviet soldiers during Operation Bagration, being paraded and mocked in Moscow (July 1944)(1300x874)

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