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The Ugandan light-heavyweight champion (left) during a boxing match in the late 1950's. The only boxer Muhammad Ali ever refused to face, though this was for diplomatic reasons. That man, Idi Amin, had become the dictator of Uganda by the early 1970's. (480 X 381)
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Opening session of the Second Vatican Council. The council was opened on 11 October 1962 by pope John XXIII and was closed on 8 December 1965 by pope Paul VI. It is considered the most significant event in the history of Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation (Vatican City 1962)
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (R) brief reporters at the Pentagon following the US bombing raids on Afghanistan. On 7 October 2001, the US began military operations in Afghanistan with air strikes across the country, starting the longest war in American history (Washington, DC)
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A couple poses near their home on their wedding day in East Beirut, Lebanon 1989. Photo by Joseph Barrak.
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Muscovites taking a stroll outside while the House of Soviets of Russia burns, 4th of October 1993. 1494x1144.
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A woman her bike while balancing two buckets of milk. Netherlands, mid-1940s.
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Movie star Anthony Quinn converses with King Hussein of Jordan on the set of “Lawrence of Arabia”. The King was a huge supporter of the production, loaning an entire brigade of his own troops to work as extras in the film. 1962
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