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ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist atomic explosion in Hiroshima,1945 Mahatma Gandhi in front of 10 Downing Street, 1931 BERLIN WALL East German guards look on as the Berlin Wall is destroyed in November 1989 Roger Bannister crossing the finish line in three minutes and 59.4 seconds, achieving the four-minute mile, Oxford, England on Mr. Lloyd George signs the Peace Treaty with Germany, June 28th, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles, France. World Cup Final July 1966 at Wembley Stadium England 4 v West Germany 2 after extra time England captain Bobby Moore holds aloft the Jules Rimet trophy as he sits on the shoulders of his teammates after their World Cup win American astronaut Neil Armstrong NASA Apollo 11 moon landing ROBERT F. KENNEDY (1925-1968) Front page of the Los Angeles Times detailing his murder on 5 June 1968 OHRDRUF CONCENTRATION CAMP near Gotha, Germany, photographed by US Forces after liberation on 4 April 1945 Concorde final commercial flight arriving at Heathrow airport MALCOLM X (1925-1965) African-American minister and human rights activist as head of the self-styled Nation of Islam Mother Teresa of Calcutta India Rosa Parks, on the bus, 1955 SATURN ROCKET LAUNCH APOLLO 11 (1969) Fidel Castro and Che Guevara Barack Obama 'Hope' portrait painting by Shepard Fairey - National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC USA Apr. 11, 1956 - Tokyo, Japan - MUHAMMAD ALI or CASSIUS CLAY, as the dominant heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, Muhammad Ali won an Olympic gold medal, captured the professional world heavyweight championship on three separate occasions, and successfully defended his title 19 times. The picture shows Ali during a fight in Tokyo, Japan. (Credit Image: © KEYSTONE Pictures USA/ World War II/Bombers/Dunkirk. Big guns of Fort Sumter returning fire from Fort Moultrie at the start of the Civil War, 1861. Hand-colored woodcut Hindenburg disaster The Victory flag hoisted after the Battle of Stalingrad World War Two 1943 MARILYN MONROE THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955) (dpa) - Clouds of smoke rise from the burning upper floors just before the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York collapse, 11 September 2001. 2,823 people were killed when Islamic terrorists crashed into the WTC with highjacked planes. Together with 189 dead in the Pentagon attack of pla President John F Kennedy Giving Historic Speech Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, waiting for press conference, 1964. Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), waving, seated outside cockpit on top of an Autogiro, in Los Angeles, shortly after she became the President Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address on the battlefield during the Civil War 1863. Color lithograph US Air Force test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager sitting in the cockpit of Glamorous Glennis the Bell X-1 aircraft that broke the sound barrier September 26, 1947 in Palmdale, California. Mao Ze Dung 1893-1976. Chinese Communist Party leader and Chinese leader 1949-1976 reviewing red guards circa 1965 1929 Milwaukee Journal (USA) front page reporting the Wall Street Crash GEORGE FORMBY UK music-hall artist entertains Londoners sheltering from German bombing in Aldwych underground station in 1940 (FILE) - An archive picture, dated 13 May 1989, shows leader of the student protests Wuer Kaixi protesting amongst a crowd of students during a demonstration on Tiananmen Square in Bejing, China. Kaixi wears a headband which reads 'Jueshi' (hunger strike). 25 Years ago, the protests widened in China's captial but were eventually beaten down violently. Photo: Edgar Bauer/dpa LEE HARVEY OSWALD (1939-1963) is shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas Police HQ, 24 November 1963. SCENE WITH TROOPS RAISING FLAG SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949) Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster 14 April 1912 PEARL HARBOUR Attack by Japan on the US base in Oahu, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 Mark David Chapman Mugshot LOUIS BLERIOT (1872-1936) flies his XI across the Cliffs of Dover after the first cross-channel flight, 25 July 1909. WOMAN KNEELS WHILE LAYING FLOWERS FOR PRINCESS DIANA OF WALES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE LONDON 1997 1990S UK HOMER SYKES TWIGGY MODEL & ACTRESS (1968) Hitler & Mussolini in a car, 1940. President John F. Kennedy, right, gets an explanation of the Saturn V launch system from Dr. Wernher von Braun at Cape Canaveral Shipwreck Titanic WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965) British Prime Minister gives his V for Victory sign in April 1945 outside 10 Downing Street JOANNE WOODWARD and PAUL NEWMAN protest the Vietnam war, 1969 THE MAYFLOWER carried the English Dissenters (Pilgrims) to Massachusetts in 1620. Painted by naval historian Gregory Robinson Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Iranian Embassy siege May 5th 1980 London UK HOMER SYKES Louis Pasteur 1885 Group of Emigrants Waiting in the Detention Pen after Passing their Entrance Exam, Ellis Island, New York, USA, Circa 1902 Jun 04, 2006; Baghdad, IRAQ; Toppled 20 foot statues of Saddam Hussein, taken from one of the former Iraqi President's palaces, sit in a storage lot in Baghdad's Green Zone June 4 2006. Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Honl/ZUMA Press. (©) Copyright 2006 by David Honl Female protesters backing the picketing miners are forcibly removed by Police at Port Talbot Steelworks. (4th July 1984) MARGARET THATCHER 1983 ELECTION CAMPAIGN Marie Curie 1867 - 1934 Polish French physicist in her laboratory. With her husband Pierre she isolated the radioactive elements WINSTON CHURCHILL Franklin D. Roosevelt & JOSEPH STALIN THE BIG THREE 11 February 1945 LIVADA PALACE BEATLES John and Yoko during their week long Bed in for Peace at Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada, May 1969 Tourists in front of the White House read headlines, 'Nixon Resigning.' Aug. 8, 1974. (CSU_ALPHA_642) CSU Archives/Everett Upset African-American Women Waving Farewell to Slain Leader, Malcolm X, at Faith Temple, New York City, USA, February 27, 1965 ELVIS PRESLEY in St Petersburg Florida during an autumn tour of one night stands with the Blue Moon Boys in 1956 The Great Fire of London, 2-5 September 1666 ANNE FRANK (1929-1945) Jewish Dutch Holocaust victim Lone man in farmer's overalls, on San Francisco's Skid Row at Howard Street. Ruined farmers from the Midwest added to the MARILYN MONROE ACTRESS (1957) Oil fires near the Iraqi border in war torn kuwait 1991 Close-up of Frank Sinatra as he arrives at Heathrow Airport Blanchard and Jeffries Crossing the English Channel by Balloon, 1785, Illustration Detention room in London's Bridewell Hospital, for homeless, impoverished, and probably single or unwed mothers. British Poor 1950s MALE PROSPECTOR PANNING FOR GOLD Seamstresses on Lunch Break, Holding Keep Smiling Signs, Circa 1914 1830s 1831 ABRAHAM LINCOLN OBSERVING NEW ORLEANS SLAVE MARKET AUCTION SALE FROM HAND COLORED ANTIQUE GLASS LANTERN SLIDE Five Women at Beach USA, Stereo Albumen Photograph, Circa 1897 two burn after the atomic explosion in Hiroshima,1945 MARIE CURIE French physicist and husband Pierre in a 1904 illustration which incorrectly shows x-rays as rather like sparks boat party couples dance and jive in true 60 s style Couple kissing doing the twist having fun humour ecard02 Man and Woman in a Horse Drawn Carriage, Rear View, Stereo Photograph, Circa 1901 Minnehaha, Photochrome Print, Circa 1904 Mother Counting Child's Toes, Circa 1915 Hippy in London, 1967 The historic inauguration of Barack Obama on 20th Jan 2009 Young Woman Sleeping Between Futons, Stereo Photograph, 1904 Engineering Wonders, 1927: Escalator, Britain. Words on the back of a participant in an anti Vietnam War rally Vietnam Time Is Up March on Washington November 15 The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945 BU4274. Loading a Lancaster Bomber, 1942 colour photo of the iconic RAF heavy bomber bombing up before a raid on Germany PRICILLA PRESLEY & ELVIS PRESLEY WIFE & HUSBAND (1967) Highwaymen robbing stagecoach passengers on the King's Highway, England, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut CHESHIRE REGIMENT Soldiers from A Company,11th Battalion, at Ovilliers-la-Boiselle, during Battle of the Somme July 1916 Couple Portrait, Daguerreotype, Circa 1850's The Great Depression. Unemployed man sells apples near the Capitol in Washington D.C. As the Great Depression deepened in BEATLES FANS scream at a concert at Shea Stadium, NY, 8/15/65, displaying what is called, 'Beatlemania.' Everest breakfast stop An orphaned child after surviving the Blitz on London. Prehistoric wooly mammoth hunters using bows and arrows. Hand-colored woodcut Three African American boys in Harlem. May 1943 photo by Gordon Parks. Franz Liszt conducting his new Oratorio at Budapest, Hungary, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut SOUTH LONDON teenage dance club in 1957 Royal opening of London Bridge, 1831. 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