La Jeune Fille a la Fleur," a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam

Around 11:30pm on April 14, 1912 a crew member of the RMS Titanic spotted an iceberg nearby. He frantically rang the alarm bell. It’s believed only 37 seconds later the unsinkable ship struck the iceberg

Muhammad Ali knocks out Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome, Houston, 1966

Women protesting forced hijab days after the Iranian Revolution, 1979 On 8 March 1979, more than 100,000 women gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital to protest against the new Islamic government’s

Men stand in a 45 ton steel pipe over the Hoover Dam, 1935

A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on an Italian beach, 1957

Moving a 7,600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in a Romanian town, 1987

The Old Cincinnati Library before being demolished, 1874-1955. Built in 1874 on the site reserved for an opera house, the Old Cincinnati Library was a thing of wonder. With five levels of cast iron shelving,

Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in front of the Czechoslovak Radio building, in central Prague, during the first day of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, on August 21, 1968. Some 250,000

A soldier fainted during a 1970 birthday procession for Queen Elizabeth. It happened at the worst possible time, as she was passing by. Standing stock-still in the full heat of a sunny day in a heavy uniform

This Sylacauga, Alabama resident is one of the only people (maybe the only person) to be struck by a meteorite. The 8 1/2 pound chunk of space rock crashed through the roof of her home, hit her radio,

Ham the Chimp, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was the first Hominidae to take a space flight. He was named after the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center in New Mexico. He was launched from Cape Canaveral

A massive stack of leather barrels, with what appears to be an American flag flying on top. More than likely, we're looking at a 4th of July bonfire from the 1920s. These occasions were common in

The nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear devices detonated by the United States between 1946 to 1958. Test weapons were detonated on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air

These two bullets were found after the Battle of Gallipoli which started in 1915 and ended in 1916 during WWI. The allies consisted of British, French, Australia and New Zealand against a fierce Turkish

1940: British soldiers on horseback charge through a smoke screen in North Africa during the Second World War