History | News 50+ Must-See Moments In History ByEadmin October 18, 2024 Photo of an ironworker during construction of the Columbia Tower, Seattle, 1984. After Randall Champion touched a high-voltage line, electrocuting himself and stopping his heart, J.D. Thompson gave him CPR until help arrived, allowing Champion to survive. “The Kiss of Life.” (1967) by Rocco Morabito. Three-year-old Robert Quigley smoking a cigar, 1928. Photo by Henry Miller A father searches for his two sons who went missing during the Kosovo war in 1999. Windows on the World. Restaurant on the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, 1976. Photo by Ezra Stoller Disco Granny, a regular fixture at Studio 54. A 17-year-old Fidel Castro playing basketball, 1943. A baby cage, initially named a “health cage”, was essentially a bed encased in wire, dangling from the windows of city apartments. During World War II, Steinway & Sons air-dropped pianos with large parachutes and complete tuning instructions into the battle for the American troops. Anne Frank photographed with her sister Margot at the beach in Zandvoort, Netherlands, in 1940. This photo from 1902 shows French knife grinders. They would work on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day. Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi (1915 – 1997) is emotionally overcome on his return to Tokyo on February 2nd, 1972. The photo, taken by Irving Penn in 1947, shows Peter Freuchen, a Danish adventurer, writer, and scientist. Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, suffering a hangover after celebrating V-E Day in 1945. The Statue of Liberty as seen from the torch. Three soldiers who lost their left leg in the New Georgia Campaign exercise the stump of their legs in preparation for using artificial limbs. McCloskey General Hospital, Texas, January 1944. A young man unphased by his arrest for growing marijuana, 1970s. This is the first image captured of Chernobyl, taken 14 hours after the explosion on April 26, 1986. The old Cincinnati library before it was demolished. Two Maori Women. New Zealand, 1902. Cats drinking milk straight from the source. 1954. Joe Biden withdraws from the 1988 presidential election Father and son take silly photos, 1910s. Flattening hills to build Seattle Robert McGee, who was scalped as a child. 1890. Anita Bryant after receiving a pie to the face, 1977. A man records a concert in Poland, 1980s. Princeton students after a snowball fight, 1893. Gerald Ford plays Soccer with Pele, 1975. The Endurance trapped in ice, 1915. Prototype spacesuit for the Apollo mission. 1962. Soviet Cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, who was stuck in space for 311 days, 1991 The Twin Towers from a wheat field in Manhattan. Workers lay wooden pipes in Lewsiton, Idaho. 1891. Working at the top of the New York skyline, 1925. Niagara Falls frozen over, 1911. Massive organ pipe cactus. Baja California, 1895. A NYC trolley rolls in a snowstorm, 1910. A Zebra drawn carriage, Buckingham Palace, 1900. Wife of a coal miner and their three of their children, 1938. Device to detect aircraft before radar. Children saluting the flag at school, c. 1890. Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren, 1909. Pages: 1 2 3 Pages ( 2 of 3 ): « Previous1 2 3Next »