22 Rare Historical Photos You’ve Never Seen in Textbooks
For many people, history is just a boring subject, filled with endless dates and dry theories. This collection of photos, however, will give you a different perspective on the subject with 22 remarkable images that are sure to surprise you.
#1 A historical photo capturing a young John F. Kennedy Jr. sitting in the presidential plane in 1963.
#2 Freddie Mercury, the late British musician, singer, and music producer, photographed with his mother in 1947.
#3 German soldiers executing a person in 1919.
#4 Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd taking a break on the set of the movie Ghostbusters in 1984.
#5 Sean Connery ready to sign a coconut for a young fan while filming “Dr. No” in Jamaica in 1962.
#6 The first-ever gay pride parade in Philadelphia in June 1972.
#7 Soldiers of Hermann Göring’s Division with stolen loot in 1944.
#8 Rare photo of a teenage Queen Elizabeth II in June 1940.
#9 A female sniper from the Soviet Union’s 3rd Shock Army. During the First Belorussian Front, they took down 775 German soldiers.
# 10 A joint photo of two music legends from the 1960s, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, in Memphis, 1957.
#11 The Twin Towers in New York City on a morning before the completion of the construction in 1972.
#12 Political activist Malcolm X and boxer Muhammad Ali photographed together in New York in 1963.
#13 Aircraft designers A. N. Tupolev and S. V. Ilyushin.
#14 Prominent figures including Henry Ford (founder of Ford Motor Company), Thomas Edison (great inventor), Warren G. Harding (29th President of the United States), and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co.) vacationing together.
#15 Scottish soldiers photographed in 1916.
#16 Japanese soldiers bathing during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.
#17 An FBI agent posing naked with 1 million dollars for a group of non-hijacker pilots in 1972. One of them, George Wright, successfully escaped with the large sum of money for over 40 years.
#18 The Nigerian Civil War in Biafra, 1968.
#19Nagasaki before and after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945.
#20 A popular bra design from the 1940s and 1950s. Do you think young women today have forgotten about it?
#21 A shoe store, taken in 1900.
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