24 rare historical photos
Every year, important historical events take place around the world. These include royal weddings, military parades, majestic ceremonies, meetings of world leaders, and other famous events.
Each time, the press covers these events that make the headlines. Photos, often the same ones, fill the pages and we don’t get to see the other less known, but perhaps more impressive photos. They are snapshots taken at just the right moment. Here are some of them…
1. In June 1970, a guard passes out as Queen Elizabeth rides past.
2. Salvador Dali and his pet anteaters, in the middle of Paris in 1969
3. Princeton students after a snowball fight in 1893
© Princeton University Archives
4. Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philipp, dancing in Ottawa in 1951
5. In 1947, children playing around the wreckage on Omaha Beach, Normandy
6. A nuclear test on Enewetak Atoll in November 1952
7. A pet cat belonging to Russian forces in Chechnya in 1994
8. In 1878, the Sphynx excavation
9. Grindelwald, a Swiss village, photographed in 1900
10. During the Romanian Revolution of 1989, soldiers fighting terrorists are offered cakes
11. Broadway in 1949
12. A Trans-Siberian Switch Operator in 1910
13. Che Guevara with his second wife, Aleida March, on their wedding day in Havana, 1959
14. The 1203 Russian Restaurant in New York invites everyone to eat free borsht after Stalin's death in 1953
15. Here’s Mohammed Alim Khan, the last direct descendant of Genghis Khan, 1911
© Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky/wikimedia.org
16. Walt Disney with his cat in 1931
17. A French woman pouring hot tea for a British soldier in 1944
18. Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla's laboratory, 1894
19. A group of women at George Washington University, 1924
20. New Zealand soldier Ian Thomas smoking a pipe during the North African Campaign in 1942
21. Stonehenge, 1897
22. Reburial of Bosnian war victims in 2005
23. A llama takes a taxi in New York, 1957
24. The first female candidates to be NASA astronauts, in 1978
By Straker Julia
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