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German submarine U-755 suffers a direct rocket hit from a RAF Lockheed Hudson Mark V of No. 608 Squadron in the Mediterranean Sea north-west of Mallorca. It sank in nine minutes with the loss of 40 lives. 28 May 1943

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Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. 29 May 1953

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Alexander Gardner's photograph of Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, at Antietam, 1862.

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A Khoekhoe tribesmen drinking from ostrich egg shells used as bottles in the Kalahari desert (South West Africa 1955)

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Two knocked-out German tiger tanks stand inertly at the approach to Cori, Italy while the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division advances into the town. 28 May 1944.

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Gas mask testing on Governor's Island, 1928 (colorized)

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U.S. Marines from the scuttled USS Yosemite in Guam, an island that was recently acquired by the U.S. from Spain following the Spanish-American War (December 1900)

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The arsenal of weapons found in the "death car" of Bonnie & Clyde, May 23, 1934.

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Flamingos in the Bathroom - In 1992 Miami Zoo placed 30 flamingos in the bathroom to protect them from Hurricane Andrew

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Helmet with a built in communication device so that the riders can communicate to each others - 1960s.

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Protestors pickets a theater showing the 1946 Walt Disney film "Song of the South" in Oakland, California (April 2, 1947)

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Putin was cooked for by Gordon Ramsay in 2000 when the President visited the British Prime Minister. Ramsay said ‘I genuinely did s* myself. I was thinking “Could you imagine if you food poisoned these two. Could you imagine the kind of s* I would get if I took these two down.”

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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

German submarine U-755 suffers a direct rocket hit from a RAF Lockheed Hudson Mark V of No. 608 Squadron in the Mediterranean Sea north-west of Mallorca. It sank in nine minutes with the loss of 40 lives. 28 May 1943

Edmund Hillary took this photograph of Tenzing Norgay as they set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. 29 May 1953

Alexander Gardner's photograph of Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, at Antietam, 1862.

A Khoekhoe tribesmen drinking from ostrich egg shells used as bottles in the Kalahari desert (South West Africa 1955)

Two knocked-out German tiger tanks stand inertly at the approach to Cori, Italy while the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division advances into the town. 28 May 1944.

Gas mask testing on Governor's Island, 1928 (colorized)

U.S. Marines from the scuttled USS Yosemite in Guam, an island that was recently acquired by the U.S. from Spain following the Spanish-American War (December 1900)

The arsenal of weapons found in the "death car" of Bonnie & Clyde, May 23, 1934.

Flamingos in the Bathroom - In 1992 Miami Zoo placed 30 flamingos in the bathroom to protect them from Hurricane Andrew

Helmet with a built in communication device so that the riders can communicate to each others - 1960s.

Protestors pickets a theater showing the 1946 Walt Disney film "Song of the South" in Oakland, California (April 2, 1947)

Putin was cooked for by Gordon Ramsay in 2000 when the President visited the British Prime Minister. Ramsay said ‘I genuinely did s*** myself. I was thinking “Could you imagine if you food poisoned these two. Could you imagine the kind of s*** I would get if I took these two down.”

Putin was cooked for by Gordon Ramsay in 2000 when the President visited the British Prime Minister. Ramsay said ‘I genuinely did s* myself. I was thinking “Could you imagine if you food poisoned these two. Could you imagine the kind of s* I would get if I took these two down.”