Crimean Tatars being herded onto trains for deportation by the Stalinist regime, where 22-40% would die after 5 years of forced labor and resettlement, 1944 (lemmy.world)
Anti-communist fighter pursuing a suspected member of the 'Securitate' secret police, Bucharest, Romania, 1989 (lemmy.world)
Japanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945
Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985 (lemmy.world)
South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954 (lemmy.world)
Aboriginal Australians used as forced labor by European settlers, 1902 (lemmy.world)
US soldier wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Germany, WW2, 1945
Evolution of Hokusai's "Great Wave" (1792-1831) (lemmy.world)
British engineer J. A. Purves in his 'Dynasphere' vehicle, 1932 (lemmy.world)
The gun that started WWI. (leminal.space)
historynet.com/ww1-archduke-ferdinand-assassinati…
Construction worker at the Hoover Dam, USA, 1931
Pro-segregation rally in Arkansas, USA, 1960s
WW2 weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese for an adult in the UK, WW2, 1942
If you could go back in time and watch -- but not change or interact with -- one historical event, what would it be?
For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.
Secret service agents moments after the 1981 assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was walking to his limousine after a speech to AFL-CIO leaders when Hinckley, 25, who was standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots, hitting Reagan...
Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were afraid that the German dictator would flee Germany by assuming a disguise. By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered his portrait to be cloned....
Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Divisive Robert E. Lee Statue (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation
Homeless family traveling in hopes of receiving unemployment relief, Great Depression, USA, 1939
Color photo of a man and woman in Dagestan, 1904 (lemmy.world)
Whipping scars of a former Mississippi slave, US Civil War, 1863
'I am horrified': Archaeologists are fuming over ancient human relative remains sent to edge of space (www.livescience.com)
Fragmentary remains of two ancient human relatives, Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic flight on Sept. 8. Departing from Spaceport America in New Mexico, the fossils, carried by South African-born billionaire Timothy Nash in a cigar-shaped tube, were rocketed to the edge of space....
Spanish Flu 1918 (lemmy.world)
POWER MOWER OF THE FUTURE, USA, 1957 (lemmy.world)
TIL that Hitler approved the construction of a supertank weighing 1,000 tons, over 100 feet long, with a main gun repurposed from the deck gun of a battleship. (en.wikipedia.org)
