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Attack on German shipping by US Navy aircraft in Bodø Harbor, Norway. "Operation Leader" 4 October 1943
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The “Owls” were an African American women's softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first Washington State women’s Softball Championship in 1938, and then were renamed the “Brown Bombers” and won the state Championship again in 1939.
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General Song Shilun (bottom left) in a group photo with his army staff in Korea, early 1951. He led the Chinese PVA 9th Army against American forces at the Battle of Lake Chosin, where he would win a victory in the winter despite heavy casualties and repel US forces from Northeastern Korea
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Fidel Castro and his first wife Mirta Diaz before the revolution (she died in 2024)
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Notorious Nazi judge Roland Freisler (center) presiding over the "People's Court" trial of the July 20th plotters, who had conspired to assassinate Hitler, 1944. Freisler verbally abused the defendants for hours & sentenced most of them to death, some dying only two hours after sentencing (1280x915)
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A mother and her two daughters at a refugee camp in Luxembourg for former Russian forced laborers. 1 October 1944
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Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938
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US President Calvin Coolidge throwing out the first pitch for game 1 of the 1924 World Series. 4 October 1924
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Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, his Matra Djet sports car & the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the background, (1965), Russian SFSR
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