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This photograph was captured in the days following the death of Marilyn Monroe on August 5, 1962. It shows one...

This photograph shows Prince Charles and his new bride Lady Diana Spencer shortly after their wedding in July, 1981. The...

Members of the Free Officers welcomed by crowds in Cairo in January 1953. Standing in the automobile, from left to...

This photograph shows an AC-46 of the Air Transport Command in the China India Burma Theatre loaded for a flight...

This photograph shows American pilot Francis Gary Powers with the High-Altitude Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. His was the main protagonist...

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverts back to Chinese rule in a ceremony attended by British Prime...

This photograph shows Julia Gillard signing her commission during her swearing-in ceremony at the Government House Canberra in 2010. Gillard...

This photograph shows the body of a Japanese lieutenant who crashed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7,...

The United States and China were allies during World War II and more than 250,000 Americans served in what was...

This photograph shows Giacomo Matteotti with his supporters in the early 1920s. Matteotti was an Italian socialist politician. On May...

The Moscow Summit of 1972 was a summit meeting between President Richard M. Nixon of the United States and General...

This 1939 photograph shows the Boeing 314 Clipper, an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941....

This photograph captures a burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war using improvised litters to carry fallen comrades...

This photograph shows the U.S. national security team with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (left) gathered in...

This photograph shows roll-call of Jewish prisoners (wearing Star of David badges) on 20 July, 1938 at Dachau concentration camp....

This photograph shows Apollo 13 splashing down in the South Pacific on April 17, 1970. Apollo 13 was the seventh...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to...

This photograph shows Emiliano Zapata, posing in Cuernavaca in 1911, with a rifle and sword, and a ceremonial sash across...

This photograph shows a 48th Tactical Fighter Wing F-111F aircraft retracting its landing gear as it takes off from RAF...

This photograph shows Christian gunmen in the foyer of the Holiday Inn in downtown Beirut, battling with Palestinians in the...

This photograph shows the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) delegation shortly before the Évian Accords were finalized on 18 March...

This photograph shows a tsunami flooding the Sendai Airport runway after the 2011 earthquake in Japan on March 11. The...

This photograph shows then prime minister of Israel Menachem Begin, American president Jimmy Carter and president of Egypt Anwar Sadat...

President Marcos of the Philippines (left) and his wife Imelda (center) in a meeting with US President Lyndon B. Johnson...

This photograph shows a column of Soviet BTR-80s crossing the Hairatan bridge, the last to withdraw from Afghanistan in 1989....

Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, was released from prison after 27 years on February...