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Mary Wallace, the first female bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority, photographed sitting in her bus in 1974. In 1974, at the age of 22, Mary Wallace became the first woman to drive a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus.
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Classmates on the first day of the school in Beslan, 1st September 2004. No one survived from this photo.
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15-year-old African American student Dorothy Counts starts the school year at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid protests, screams, and insults from White people who were against school integration, on September 4, 1957 .
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My paternal grandparents at their wedding in 1973 and all 4 great grandparents.
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A biker group drinking beer and riding through underground tunnels on their motorcycles late at night, Moscow 1990.
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One of the Palestinian terrorists who kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes during the Munich Massacre standing on a balcony. Happened this day in 1972
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My dad holding a joint for my mom, middle of no where Illinois - mid 1970s
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Exactly 50 years ago, Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme attempted to assassinate US President Ford in Sacramento, CA (September 5, 1975). This Newsweek cover shows her moments after her gun failed to fire.
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"Squeeze hard, comrade!" - Republican propaganda poster, Spanish Civil War (1936)
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Tom Longboat , the first Native American to win the Boston Marathon, 1905.
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