47 best u/observerofthe20s images on Pholder | Catastrophic Failure, The Gritty Past and Washingtondc

100 Years Ago Yesterday (June 27, 1923) Seven people were killed and 70 injured on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, when an elevated train derailed and three railcars fell onto automobiles 35 feet (11m) below.

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25 Years Ago Today (December 6, 1997) A Russian Air Force Antonov An-124 en route to Cam Ranh Air Base, Vietnam, crashes in a residential area of Irkutsk, killing 23 people.

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100 Years Ago Today (November 13, 1922) New mother Lily Smith rests happily in the maternity ward after giving birth to triplets in Edmonton, Alberta.

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100 Years Ago Today (October 30, 1922) National Geographic Magazine publishes this photo of a female Mongolian prisoner in a box, in which she has been sentenced to starve to death by “Immurement.”

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25 Years Ago Today (July 16, 1998) Shoppers ride the escalators at Crossroads Mall in Salt Lake City.

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50 Years Ago This Week (1 December 1972) The largest gay pride parade in Australian history (at that time) takes place in Melbourne.

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50 Years Ago Yesterday (May 26, 1973): Worlds of Fun opens near KC

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100 Years Ago Today (November 4, 1922) Berlin dog-owners line up to have their pets euthanized due to hyperinflation occurring throughout Weimar Germany. They could not afford to feed their dogs any longer.

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50 Years Ago This Week (May 19, 1973) A man charging his Gremlin AMC electric car in Seattle. The cost was 25 cents for one hour.

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100 Years Ago Today (October 16, 1922) Illinois State Representative Thomas J. O'Grady introduces a bill that makes the theft of glands (testicles) punishable by death after a rash of random testicle piracy attacks in Chicago where bandits drugged victims and castrated them.

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100 Years Ago Today (November 16, 1922) Roc the Panther, the University of Pittsburgh athletic mascot, with his “handlers” at today’s game against Washington and Jefferson College at home. Yes, a man is in that costume, but for full realism, he is collared and leashed. He tramps around and growls.

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25 Years Ago Today (October 30, 1997) The X-36 technology demonstrator shows off its distinctive shape as the remotely piloted aircraft flies a research mission over the Southern California desert. [920 x 921]

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25 Years Ago Today (October 25, 1997) Omaha's worst October snowstorm hits; over two feet of snow fall on the city

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100 Years Ago Today (October 30, 1922) Governor Allen of Kansas declares war on the Ku Klux Klan in his state and says he’s disgusted by the prejudice that it has wrought. “The Klan is the greatest curse that can come to any civilized people,” he says.

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25 Years Ago Today (July 26, 1998) Sean O hEiniri, the last known monolingual native speaker of the Irish language, dies in County Mayo. He was 83.

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100 Years Ago Today (October 16, 1922) A UT Austin law professor concludes a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot. The project, which cost thousands of dollars, was a failure.

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100 Years Ago Today (November 7, 1922) Oregon enacts The Compulsory Education Act, requiring all Oregon children to attend school. Pictured is a 1922 primary school class in Beaverton, Oregon.

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100 Years Ago This Week (May 28, 1923) Families live in tent cities due to too-high rents in Detroit - as much as $75/month ($1,346 in 2023)

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100 Years Ago Today (November 7, 1922) The crowded market square in London, Ontario. The square was consistently filled with parked autos and generally one could not find parking after 9 AM.

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50 Years Ago Today (November 6, 1972) The first intercollegiate game of ultimate frisbee is played between Rutgers and Princeton in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers wins 29-27.

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100 Years Ago Today (November 7, 1922) Cleveland annexes West Park.

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25 Years Ago Today (October 27, 1997) In the largest teachers’ strike in Canadian history, almost every school in Ontario closes as tens of thousands of teachers walk off the job.

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50 Years Ago This Week - Businessmen crossing the street at lunchtime, November 19, 1972, Dallas.

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50 Years Ago Today (September 24, 1973) Brian Moonie, 24 and Diana Kilburn, 20, step out of the 1920s-era streetcar on which they’ve just been married as part of a special accommodation by Toronto’s TTC. They held the ceremony on the car as it drove around town.

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50 Years Ago Today (November 7, 1972) Joe Biden is elected as the youngest US Senator in history at age 29. Biden’s opponent in the race, 63-year-old J. Caleb Boggs, was seen as too old and unenthusiastic.

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50 Years Ago This Week (December 10, 1972) Christmas shoppers pass through the Nashville Arcade, the oldest shopping center of its type in Nashville and possibly the oldest in the United States. Iron bars are used to shut down the Arcade at night and on holidays to curb vandalism and thefts.

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100 Years Ago This Week (May 24, 1923) Six affluent Pittsburgh youths steal 93 automobiles with a combined value of $100,000. The adolescents, who come from prominent families in Oakland and the East End, claimed they did it because they wanted to take their girlfriends on joyrides.

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25 Years Ago (October 1997) UPS - yes, the United Parcel Service - starts operating passenger flights using hastily-converted Boeing 727s

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100 Years Ago Toady (July 16, 1923) A Ku Klux Klan rally is held in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Lincoln Star reports that the Klan is “active in Lincoln, Omaha, Fremont, York, Grand Island, Hastings, North Platte, and Scottsbluff,” with at least 45,000 members statewide.

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100 Years Ago Yesterday (July 16, 1923) Two Mi'kmaq Indians photographed during the re-enactment and celebration of the 150th anniversary of the 1773 landing of Scottish settlers at Pictou. Lonecloud (left) is holding the skull of a moose shot by Peter Wilmot (right). Wilmot is 97 years old.

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100 Years Ago Today (October 28, 1922) In an elaborate procession through the streets of Buffalo, Samuel P. Capen is inaugurated as the University of Buffalo’s seventh Chancellor.

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100 Years Ago Today (July 16, 1923) Magnus Johnson of the leftist Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party is elected to the U.S. Senate in a special election to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Knute Nelson, making Minnesota the only US state to have both its Senators as Farmer-Labor Party members.

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100 Years Ago Today (October 16, 1922) A UT Austin law professor concludes a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot. The project, which cost thousands of dollars, was a failure.

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