30 Fascinating Historical Photos That You Most Probably Had No Idea About

Kenneth Coo Published 12/09/2017 in wow

Fascinating photos from our fascinating history.

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1.
Iowa’s living Statue of Liberty, 1918.
2.
An aerial view of the flowers left outside Buckingham palace after the death of Princess Diana, 1997.
3.
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
4.
Women in Washington, D.C. bathe their pet ducklings, 1927.
5.
The atomic bomb leveling Nagasaki, 1945.
6.
A man rides his bicycle out of the Eiffel Tour, 1923.
7.
A statue in the Soviet Union, 1925.
8.
Soldiers in Poland rest with their best friend, 1945.
9.
Young Nikola Tesla teaching a girl how to swim, 1900.
10.
German kids building their own Berlin wall, 1961.
11.
Lumberjacks pose with felled California Redwood trees.
12.
A magazine speculates what Michael Jackson will look like in the year 2000 (1985)
13.
Russia sailors surround a sleeping kitten, 1941.
14.
A California teacher teaches the physics of surfing, 1970.
15.
A 1946 “Baby Race.”
16.
A group of men portraying Santa Claus learn how to apply their makeup, 1961.
17.
A warship washes ashore during WWII.
18.
A Group Of Men Posing In Front Of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852
19.
Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police On April 10, 1924 For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks
20.
Soviet Troops Scrawled Graffiti In The Reichstag After They Took Berlin In 1945
21.
Columns Of Hoover Dam Being Filled With Concrete, February 1934 (Looking Upstream From The Nevada Rim)
22.
Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s.
23.
Wounded Combat Dog During Action On The Orote Peninsula, 1944
24.
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
25.
Missiles In Florida. There was a lot of tension during the Cuban missile crisis, so much so that the US Army deployed anti-aircraft Hawk missiles on a Florida beach in Key West. Photo was taken October 27, 1962.
26.
Salvador Dali In A Goat-Drawn Carriage (1953)
27.
The First Black Student In An All-White School (1957). Dorothy Counts was admitted to the Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1957, but her parents pulled her out four days later after relentless harassment from the other students.
28.
Marilyn Monroe Filming The Seven Year Itch (1955)
29.
Zero Gravity
30.
The Old Stockholm telephone tower was built in 1887 and connected more than 5,000 telephone wires in the Swedish capital.

1.
Iowa’s living Statue of Liberty, 1918.
2.
An aerial view of the flowers left outside Buckingham palace after the death of Princess Diana, 1997.
3.
An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
4.
Women in Washington, D.C. bathe their pet ducklings, 1927.
5.
The atomic bomb leveling Nagasaki, 1945.
6.
A man rides his bicycle out of the Eiffel Tour, 1923.
7.
A statue in the Soviet Union, 1925.
8.
Soldiers in Poland rest with their best friend, 1945.
9.
Young Nikola Tesla teaching a girl how to swim, 1900.
10.
German kids building their own Berlin wall, 1961.
11.
Lumberjacks pose with felled California Redwood trees.
12.
A magazine speculates what Michael Jackson will look like in the year 2000 (1985)
13.
Russia sailors surround a sleeping kitten, 1941.
14.
A California teacher teaches the physics of surfing, 1970.
15.
A 1946 “Baby Race.”
16.
A group of men portraying Santa Claus learn how to apply their makeup, 1961.
17.
A warship washes ashore during WWII.
18.
A Group Of Men Posing In Front Of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852
19.
Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police On April 10, 1924 For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks
20.
Soviet Troops Scrawled Graffiti In The Reichstag After They Took Berlin In 1945
21.
Columns Of Hoover Dam Being Filled With Concrete, February 1934 (Looking Upstream From The Nevada Rim)
22.
Carving Eye On Mount Rushmore, 1930s.
23.
Wounded Combat Dog During Action On The Orote Peninsula, 1944
24.
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
25.
Missiles In Florida. There was a lot of tension during the Cuban missile crisis, so much so that the US Army deployed anti-aircraft Hawk missiles on a Florida beach in Key West. Photo was taken October 27, 1962.
26.
Salvador Dali In A Goat-Drawn Carriage (1953)
27.
The First Black Student In An All-White School (1957). Dorothy Counts was admitted to the Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1957, but her parents pulled her out four days later after relentless harassment from the other students.
28.
Marilyn Monroe Filming The Seven Year Itch (1955)
29.
Zero Gravity
30.
The Old Stockholm telephone tower was built in 1887 and connected more than 5,000 telephone wires in the Swedish capital.