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
The earliest known photograph of a surfer, Hawaii, 1898
Police caring for abandoned babies, 1971
Iraqi protesters sat in chairs of elected officials who disappointed them, 2019
The bride leaves her bombed-out home in World War II to get married, in 1940
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.
A mother mocked her husband, who had just fainted, in 1986
Margaret Hamilton, principal software engineer of the Apollo program, stands next to the code she wrote to the moon in 1969
A 6-year-old won a race to eat a cranberry pie by eating a 10-inch pie in 15 seconds, 1948
A man listens to a gramophone in a destroyed bedroom in Aleppo, Syria, 2017
Milkmen continue to work during the London bombing, 1940
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
Two girls greet their wounded father returning from war. In 1940
Walking practice at a polio hospital, 1953
A father watched his son become a father in 2017
Mexican police take a lunch break during a protest, 2016
A father bathes his daughter and niece in a bombed-out home in Gaza, 2015
Open-air school in the Netherlands, 1957
NASA before the advent of modern computers, 1961
Buzz Aldrin took his first selfie in space, 1966
Rollerblading went to work in New York, 1940
USA and El Salvador Under-16 basketball team, 2019
A 95-year-old grandmother became the first patient in Modena, Italy, to recover from Covid-19, 2020
Albert Einstein gave a lecture at the University of Lincoln, a historically black university, 1946
Two parents listen to their 23-year-old son, who died of an opioid overdose, in 2018
An Italian boy helps his younger brother who lost both legs in the bombing of Naples, 1944
Punk rocker lets curious kids touch his jacket, 2012
An Australian and his dog watched their world burn down, 2020
She was in someone's locket, in the 40s of the 20th century
A man asks his wife's forgiveness in Chicago divorce court, 1948
Parents try to cure a child with rickets by dragging him through a healing tree, 1918
Miss Universe contestants watch Miss New Zealand faint from heat stroke, 1954
A man floating in the Dead Sea with a book and an umbrella, 1920