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Gertrude Aderle, first woman to cross the english channel, 26 of August 1926, done in 14hr and 31 min, beating the male record of 16hr and 33 min. Photos of the day she did the record.
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Trainees donning makeshift astronaut suits marching through Zambian villages, a step forward for that country's short-lived but highly ambitious space program whose aim was to put Zambians on the moon, 1969
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Vietnam War POW Doug Hegdahl pretended to be illiterate to fool his captors, who believed him to be so stupid that they gave him almost free rein of the camp. He secretly memorized the details of about 256 POWs that he passed on after his release 1967.
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5 friends posing at the park, girls dressed in what today looks like crop tops, august of 1948, Kodachrome slide.
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Green Day guitarist/frontman Billie Joe Armstrong dropkicking a creep who assaulted a young fan in the audience at a concert in San Francisco (1997)
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The last public appearance of Chinese leader Mao Zedong before his death. May 27, 1976.
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A member of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) poses for the camera while holding a puppy he saved during World War I 1918.
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Dylan Klebold's vandalized and later removed memorial cross in Littleton CO, 1999
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