The traces of history fade in time, but some moments are forever frozen. These photographs, like witnesses of time, capture those important, touching and shocking historical moments one by one. They are silent, but more powerful than any language, telling of the glories and sufferings of the past.
Each one is a story, and every frame is full of emotion. These photos are not only for memories, but also to inspire the future to move forward.
1. In 1888, a woman in the Netherlands and her husband were forbidden to be buried together because of their different beliefs.
But...... This is their grave.
2. On April 24, 1967, the Soviet Union's Soyuz-1 spacecraft crashed while returning to the ground.
This is the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, who was the first cosmonaut to die during a space flight.
3. In 1930, Roland, the caretaker of the Berlin Zoo, bathed a huge walrus in the snow.
4. In 1945, the first atomic bomb.
5. The most beautiful suicide.
In 1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the Empire State Building in New York, USA, 344 meters high, and fell on the top of a car parked on the side of the road after falling out of love.
6. In 1937, the creator of Shrek, cartoonist William Stark and professional wrestler Maurice Tilley.
Morris is Shrek is the inspiration for this character, don't be fooled by his appearance, in fact, he speaks 14 languages and plays chess very well.
7. On July 28, 1931, Albert Einstein and Max Planck, the founder of quantum mechanics, sat in the front row of the Berlin Physical Society.
8. In 1899, the American legend, the goddess gunslinger Anne Oakley, demonstrated his famous mirror shooting skills.
9. In 1950, Marilyn Monroe with a shotgun, and a turkey.
10. In 1974, Harold Whitters, a 5-year-old boy, heard sound for the first time after wearing hearing aids.
What a beautiful moment!
11. In the 80s of the last century, in the Soviet Union, in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine, the combine harvester operator was eating lunch.
An era sealed in the dust of history!
12. In 1939, France, on the guillotine, the last public execution.
13. In 1926, the young Adolf Hitler looked excited when he heard the news of the outbreak of World War I.
14. In 1930, a member of the Owls, a black women's softball team.
15. Shavarsh Karapetian, Armenian (then Soviet Union) swimmer.
In 1976, he had just finished a 26-kilometer run when he heard a loud bang and then saw a trolleybus lose control and fall into the reservoir. Without hesitation, he dived underwater, kicked open the back window of the tram, and rescued 46 people, 20 of whom survived.
He suffered multiple lacerations, was hospitalized for 45 days, suffered from pneumonia and sepsis, and his heroism prevented him from continuing his career as a swimmer.
16. In 1967, traffic in Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right, which was a chaotic situation on the first morning.
Actually, it was a good decision.
17. The last photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
In 1923, he had already suffered three strokes and could no longer speak.
18. In 1975, when the U.S. military fled from Saigon, Vietnam, the Americans were pushing a Vietnamese man on the helicopter that was about to fly.
19. In 1957, director Alfred Hitchcock poured tea for Leo the Lion, the mascot of Hollywood MGM Studios.
20. After World War II, Onardo da Vinci's oil painting "Mona Lisa" was sent back to the Louvre.
21. Compared with the Egyptian pyramids, the number of Sudanese pyramids is more.
In the Sahara Desert, more than 220 of these pyramids, built between the 7th and 3rd centuries BC, have been discovered.
22. In 1905, the first bananas from Norway arrived.
23. In 1993, the king of pop music, Michael Jackson visited Russia.
24. Indian werewolf Dina Sannychar, it is believed that he was raised by wolves.
Born in India, he was spotted by hunters in the jungles of Uttar Pradesh in 1872, when he was hunting with wolves.
25. The first woman to officially participate in a marathon, Catherine Svetzer.
In 1967, women were not allowed to run a marathon, and despite the organizers' attempts to prevent her from running, Catherine Svetzer managed to participate in and complete the race, creating this historic moment.
26. Burning money is real.
In the 20s of the last century, due to inflation, this German was using money to make a fire.
27. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew, the third largest hurricane in U.S. history, made landfall, and in Miami, the flamingos in the zoo were hidden in the bathroom to escape the storm.
28. April 12, 1912, the last known photo of the Titanic.
29. Robert Pershing Waldrow (1918-1940), the tallest man known in history, was 2.72 meters tall.
30. In 1943, Sophie Sauer, a German anti-Nazi political activist, was executed for leading students in nonviolent resistance to Hitler.
In her last words, she was 21 years old: "How can we expect justice to be done automatically when no one is interested in the cause of justice?