25 Interesting Historical Photos

A starving boy and a missionary in Uganda, 1980.

Personal Possessions of Mahatma Gandhi, 1948.

Newly engaged Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy speak with a life magazine reporter, June 1953, at Hyannis Port.

A coal miner receives his alcohol ration, Essen, Germany, 1947.

Ella Fitzgerald, New York City, 1953.

Monsters of SCTV: Eugene Levy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Rosemary Radcliffe and John Candy of Second City, 1974.

Lightning pounds the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1902.

Two French nuns arrested by the Argentine military regime.

They were forced to pose with the banner of the Montoneros guerrilla group, shortly before being killed, Argentina, 1977.

George S. Patton’s dog, Willie, mourning his best friend on the day of his death, Dec. 21, 1945.

Swedish high jumper, Gunhild Larking, awaiting her turn at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

Warsaw Pact tanks invade Prague, August 21, 1968.

Aerial photo of Fort Douaumont before and after the battle of Verdun, 21 February-18 December 1916.

This battle was the largest and longest battle of the Great War on the Western Front between German and French armies.

The wreckage of the car that carried Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion, Dodi al-Fayed, into a Paris tunnel on August 31, 1997.

Haverford Cycle, 10th Street, Washington, D.C., December 1919.

Armored “Heimwehr” cars are patrolling the streets in Vienna, Austria, July 1934.

Unidentified American soldier shot by a German Sniper, 1945.

Joseph Merrick, aka The Elephant Man, c. 1889.

An opium-addled Bahadur Shah Zafar II awaits trial for support of the Indian mutiny against the British Raj, India 1858.

Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West Florida, Oct. 27, 1962.

“You!” Princess Diana meets comedian Rowan Atkinson (Edmund Blackadder, Mr. Bean) while greeting the cast of the “Royal Variety” show, 1984.

The Brandenburg Gates traffic jam between East and West Germany shortly after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989.

6 A sentry of the French Resistance keeps an eye out for German and French collaborationist snipers during the Battle for Paris, August 23, 1944.

PFC Donald Jones of Topeka, Kansas, reads a sign just posted on the south limit of the demilitarized zone in Korea on July 30, 1953.

Two-man bobsleigh at the St. Moritz Winter Olympic Games, 1928.

An unidentified person stops a line of Chinese tanks, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989.