25 Dramatic Historical Moments That Spice Up History
Jaw-dropping moments from history.
Jaw-dropping moments from history.
1
You have to have balls of steel to voluntarily test a bulletproof vest, 1923.
2
Children are overcome by emotion during a puppet show in Paris, 1963.
3
Evelyn McHale put on her Sunday best and jumped from the Empire State Building, 1947.
4
The evil iceberg that sunk the Titanic in 1912.
5
Young British aristocrats stand near to some less privileged children in 1937.
6
The famous day in 1967 when Sweden switched from driving on the left hand side to the right.
7
A picture of goalie Terry Sawchuk before hockey masks were a thing, 1966.
8
Things aren’t going to end well for socialist Japanese politician Asanuma as he is assassinated by a 17-year-old wielding a traditional Japanese blade.
9
Tsar Nicholas is seen rough housing with his friend/man servant/human carpet in 1899.
10
Buddhist Monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death at a Saigon intersection protesting the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.
11
An SAS detachment is armed to the teeth in the North African desert, 1943.
12
Joseph Goebbels on his wedding day, with best man and mass murderer Adolf Hitler in tow.
13
Stalin clowns around with his bodyguard who he probably had murdered after this photo.
14
This ballsy Russian spy laughs as he prepares for his own death in Finland.
15
Lt. Custer is pictured in color having a bachelors’ picnic with Union troops, 1862.
16
A bomber rains death and destruction on Kobe, Japan, 1945.
17
Books are burned during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
18
Soviet soldiers are treated to a performance similar to the American USO shows in 1945.
19
Mark Twain fools around in the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, 1894.
20
This is the last photo that was taken of the Titanic, 1912.
21
The famous Red Baron, who was a feared fighter pilot in WWI is seen here with his dog in 1916.
22
This absurdly long punt gun could discharge a pound of shot each time it was fired.
23
The main entrance to the Auschwitz Birkenau death camp, which was built in 1944 and transported prisoners straight to their death.
24
German prisoners of war react to watching film footage from concentration camps, 1945.
25
A German Communist holds his head high as he faces a firing squad in Munich, 1919.
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