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June 13, 1963: Myrlie Louise Evers kisses the forehead of her husband, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, after his assassination. His white supremacist killer would evade conviction for 31 years[1284X918].

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Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson at Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4th, 1865. A drunken Johnson had earlier delivered one of the worst speeches in history.

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Six-year-old Tran Van Đuc shields his fourteen-month-old sister during the My Lai massacre, March 16, 1968.

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Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson at Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4th, 1865. A drunken Johnson had earlier delivered one of the worst speeches in history.

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July 26th, 1184: Dozens of nobles, bishops, and elites plunged through the floor of a hall in Erfurt and drowned in a cesspit of human waste during the Erfurt Latrine Disaster.

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252 years ago tomorrow, on December 16, 1773, Bostonians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

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ATM surveillance image of Maura Murray on February 9, 2004, one of the last known photograph of her, taken just hours before she disappeared [1284X1125].

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One of the last pictures taken by the Dyatlov Ski-Hiking Expedition on February 1st, 1959. All nine would pass away, six due to hypothermia and three to physical trauma, in one of the most enduring mysteries.

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German Major Josef Gangl taken by an American photographer on May 4, 1945. The following day, he was killed while shielding former French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud, fighting alongside American soldiers and French prisoners against SS forces[1284X1847].

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The crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger boarding their doomed final mission on January 28th, 1986.

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Beulah Cordes reenacts the discovery of the cloth that sent “a feeling of paralysis” through her body, one of at least twenty reports attributed to the Mad Gasser in Mattoon, Illinois

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The Dean Scream, credited with ending Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, January 19th 2004 [447X447].

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252 years ago tomorrow, on December 16, 1773, Bostonians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

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Sixteen years ago today, October 8th, 2009, the Jamison family disappeared. Their belongings were found in their abandoned truck; this was the last photo taken of their daughter, Madyson. Their remains were discovered four years later, yet we still have no idea what happened.

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Beulah Cordes reenacts the discovery of the cloth that allegedly sent “a feeling of paralysis” through her body, one of at least twenty reported encounters attributed to the Mad Gasser in Mattoon, 1944[1284X1428]

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Prosthetic leg of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, lost to a cannonball during the Pastry War[3200X1801].

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Annie Chapman, on her wedding day, May 1st, 1869, believed to be the only known portrait of any victim of the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders.

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Roald Amundsen and his team at the South Pole on December 14th, 1911, after beating Robert Falcon Scott’s British expedition to become the first to reach the pole.

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Teenagers affected by radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster waiting for medical treatment in Cuba, December 1986.

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A pocket watch recovered from the wreck of the RMS Titanic, its hands frozen at 2:28 a.m., April 15, 1912[1284X1178].

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March 16, 1968: The My Lai massacre in Son My, South Vietnam, where U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians.

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Spanish Conquistadors marching in the Codex Azcatitlan, a Mexica codex (16th century). Five hundred six years ago this week, the Spaniards marched into Tenochtitlan.

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Armenian orphans photographed during the Armenian Genocide (1915–1917), in which an estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians were killed [1284X1027].

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Sufferer of acute radiation sickness, photo taken at a specialized clinic in the Soviet Union after the Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986.

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13th-century preserved writing from Novgorod, attributed to a young boy named Onfim. Believed to have been a homework assignment, he begins practicing his alphabet before getting bored and drawing himself as a knight stabbing an enemy.

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ATM surveillance image of Maura Murray on February 9, 2004, one of the last known photograph of her, taken just hours before she disappeared.

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Preserved brain from a crewmember of the warship Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628[650X471].

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The immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, March 30, 1981. Secret Service agents shield Press Secretary James Brady, shot in the head, while Officer Thomas Delahanty lies wounded[1284X826].

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Eduard Bloch, the Jewish doctor who treated Adolf Hitler and his family during his youth, later granted special protection by Hitler and allowed to emigrate, even as the foundations of the Holocaust were being laid.

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Side by side, Roald Amundsen and his Norwegian team at the South Pole on December 14th, 1911, and Robert Falcon Scott’s British team a month later, on January 18th, 1912.

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The immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, March 30, 1981. Secret Service agents shield Press Secretary James Brady, shot in the head, while Officer Thomas Delahanty lies wounded.

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Freshly excavated Terracotta Army soldiers with traces of their original paint, 1974 [1284X820].

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Portrait taken of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on December 8th, 1980, hours before his death[509X541].

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The Branch Davidian compound at Mount Carmel was engulfed in flames on April 19, 1993, ending a 51-day siege outside Waco and resulting in the deaths of 76 men, women, and children.

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Vietnamese women and children in My Lai photographed by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle moments before they were killed during the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968 [1284X1914].

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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, as seen in a 1995 expedition to the ship. 50 years ago today, the wreck was discovered [1284X870].

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Baseball player Old Hoss Radbourn (photographed in 1886) in what is apparently the first known photograph of someone flipping the bird [600x600]

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Facial reconstruction of a crewmember lost aboard the Swedish warship Vasa, which sank in 1628. Originally believed to be male, osteologists later determined the remains belonged to a female crewmember.

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A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway, during the Famine (1845-1852). Source: National Library of Ireland [570X385].

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A photo of Leatherman (1885), a mysterious but gentle vagabond who walked the same 365-mile route around Connecticut and New York dressed in all leather for decades. (374 x 510)

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One of the last pictures taken by the Dyatlov Ski-Hiking Expedition on February 1st, 1959. All nine would pass away, six due to hypothermia and three to physical trauma, ruled to have been caused by an avalanche[1284X845].

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Rare 1914 photograph of Charlotte of Belgium, once Empress Carlota of Mexico, who spent the final six decades of her life in isolation and severe mental illness.

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John Lennon signing a copy of his album for Mark David Chapman, who five hours later would kill him, December 8th 1980 [1284X815].

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17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan following his arrest in Paris on November 7, 1938, after shooting Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath, used as a pretext for Kristallnacht, seen as the prelude to the Holocaust.

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Photograph of “Jerome” of Sandy Cove, a mysterious man who washed ashore in Nova Scotia in 1863, both legs amputated, and whose identity and origins were never discovered.

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Winston Churchill, far right, as a prisoner of war of the Boer Republic days before his escape, November 1899[736X629].

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Depiction of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, who terrorized the town for two weeks in 1944, an incident widely reported, including by Time magazine, ultimately ruled by authorities to be mass hysteria.

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Shot of Southampton player Ali Dia, during his one and only game for the club (November 23rd, 1996). Dia was an amateur who’d hoaxed his way onto the team before being found out. [173X291]

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An effigy of a lynched Black man hanging above the entrance to Mansfield High School in Texas on August 30, 1956.

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Portrait of Pope Sixtus IV, builder of the Sistine Chapel, architect of the Spanish Inquisition, and who approved an assassination plot carried out inside Florence’s cathedral.

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Today in history: May 5, 1862, a smaller Mexican force defeats a larger French army at the Battle of Puebla, a victory immortalized as Cinco de Mayo.

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1912 photograph of “Jerome” of Sandy Cove, a mysterious man who washed ashore in Nova Scotia in 1863, both legs amputated, and whose identity and origins were never discovered.

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Pope Formosus and Stephen VI by Jean Paul Laurens, depicting the Cadaver Synod of 897, when the corpse of Formosus was exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial in the Lateran Basilica

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This totally sane-looking man is Charles J Guiteau (1881). On July 2nd of that year, Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield, who would die months later. Guiteau was a disturbed individual and danced his way onto the gallows and died, insisting he was an American hero (443X576).

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An effigy of a lynched Black man hanging above the entrance to Mansfield High School in Texas on August 30, 1956.

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Hanging of Bernardo Baroncelli in Florence, sketched by Leonardo da Vinci after the failed Pazzi Conspiracy. Baroncelli was one of the assassins who murdered Giuliano de' Medici inside the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore on Easter Sunday, 1478.

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Fans scrambling to escape Valley Parade’s main stand on May 11th, 1985. The fire consumed the structure in just 270 seconds, killing 56 people and injuring more than 265.

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Unidentified remains recovered in 1919 from the battlefield of the Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of the First World War[1920X1166].

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This photo of the tree stumps (taken near Alder Creek, California, in 1866), shows the height of the snow drifts where 20 years earlier, the Donner Party was snowed in for the winter. Of the 87 party members, only 48 lived, some of those having to resort to cannibalism to survive. (658 x 599)

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Security Guard Richard Abath, as found by police, the morning (March 18th, 1990) after the heist of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, considered the highest-value museum robbery in history (507X700).

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White residents of Springfield, Illinois, cutting the tree used to lynch 65-year-old Scott Burton during the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, as souvenirs

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Gold medal winner Thomas Hicks rests after winning the marathon (1904 Summer Olympics). Hicks had consumed several cocktails of brandy, egg whites and strychnine to help him over the finish line. [477x600]

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Photographs taken in 1868 of Phineas Gage’s skull and the tamping rod that was blasted through his head in 1848, twelve years before his death in 1860.

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Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano, just before signing the Munich Agreement, hailed at the time for preventing war, September 30th, 1938[800X548].

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