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33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

author:Light Dancer

Throughout human history, many photographs have captured raw and poignant moments.

Let's take a look at what's there?

The boy watched TV for the first time in a shop window, in 1948

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

The earliest known photograph of a surfer, Hawaii, 1898

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Police caring for abandoned babies, 1971

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Iraqi protesters sat in chairs of elected officials who disappointed them, 2019

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

The bride leaves her bombed-out home in World War II to get married, in 1940

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

People protest against the ban on pants worn by high school girls in Brooklyn, New York, 1942

In 1942, a high school in Brooklyn imposed a ban on female students from wearing pants to school. The ban sparked discontent and protests from female students.

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A mother mocked her husband, who had just fainted, in 1986

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Margaret Hamilton, principal software engineer of the Apollo program, stands next to the code she wrote to the moon in 1969

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A 6-year-old won a race to eat a cranberry pie by eating a 10-inch pie in 15 seconds, 1948

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A man listens to a gramophone in a destroyed bedroom in Aleppo, Syria, 2017

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Milkmen continue to work during the London bombing, 1940

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Hang-Od Oggay is a Filipino tattoo artist. Now 106, she is the oldest person known to practice Mambabatok, an ancient traditional form of the Kalinga tattoo

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Two girls greet their wounded father returning from war. In 1940

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Walking practice at a polio hospital, 1953

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A father watched his son become a father in 2017

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Mexican police take a lunch break during a protest, 2016

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A father bathes his daughter and niece in a bombed-out home in Gaza, 2015

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Open-air school in the Netherlands, 1957

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

NASA before the advent of modern computers, 1961

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Buzz Aldrin took his first selfie in space, 1966

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Rollerblading went to work in New York, 1940

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

USA and El Salvador Under-16 basketball team, 2019

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A 95-year-old grandmother became the first patient in Modena, Italy, to recover from Covid-19, 2020

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Albert Einstein gave a lecture at the University of Lincoln, a historically black university, 1946

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Two parents listen to their 23-year-old son, who died of an opioid overdose, in 2018

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

An Italian boy helps his younger brother who lost both legs in the bombing of Naples, 1944

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Punk rocker lets curious kids touch his jacket, 2012

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

An Australian and his dog watched their world burn down, 2020

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

She was in someone's locket, in the 40s of the 20th century

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A man asks his wife's forgiveness in Chicago divorce court, 1948

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Parents try to cure a child with rickets by dragging him through a healing tree, 1918

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

Miss Universe contestants watch Miss New Zealand faint from heat stroke, 1954

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

A man floating in the Dead Sea with a book and an umbrella, 1920

33 important historical photographs that reveal unknown facts

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