Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 299, click here. 1. A French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces, Marseilles, 30 September 1914. 2. The priest and the dying soldier, 1962. 3. An injured man protesting the Yeltsin government during…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 298, click here. 1. In response to the Anti-Japanese sentiment that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese-American Citizens League opened the Anti-Axis Committee Office on 14 December 1941. It was part of their campaign to demonstrate the loyalty of American-born Japanese citizens to the…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 297, click here. 1. The temporary grave of Theodore Roosevelt in Normandy, soon after his death, July 1944. 2. 16-year-old Brenda Spencer leaves court in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack. She killed two people and wounded…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 296, click here. 1. Soviet rock fans attend a concert in Moscow on 28 September 1991. Half a million people jammed an airfield to see the Soviet Union’s biggest Western rock concert, touted as a gift to Russian youth for their resistance to last month’s coup.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 295, click here. 1. A German-Jewish WWI veteran wears his Iron Cross while a Nazi soldier stands in front of his shop for intimidation, 1933. 2. A hippie girl selling roadside flowers in Oklahoma, 1973. 3. Kubrick taking a photo with daughter Vivian, on the set…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 294, click here. 1. High school teacher John T. Scopes is brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution, which was prohibited under state law, 10 July 1925. 2. Chinese guerrilla fighter Cheng Benhua 成本華 smiling moment before execution by the Japanese,…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 293, click here. 1. A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India. 2. Indigenous children forced to pray to god in a residential school ran by the Canadian government and Catholic Church between…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 292, click here. 1. US medic gives first aid to a wounded German SS soldier, France, 1944. 2. A young Russian boy points out German positions to Commander G. V. Gvozdev of the 11th Squad, 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade in a small village during the Siege…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 291, click here. 1. Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F Kennedy, pictured in 1938. In 1941, at age 23, her father forced her to undergo a lobotomy, due to her mood swings, seizures, and intellectual disability. This procedure rendered her permanently incapacitated and unable to speak.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 290, click here. 1. Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe watches a successful launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger after being selected to join a later mission in January 1986, which would ultimately end in disaster, 30 October 1985. 2. Logging family with a 1300-year-old tree, 1892. 3. In…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 289, click here. 1. Actor and martial arts star Jackie Chan at the benefit concert in Hong Kong, in support of Tiananmen Square protesters, 1989. 2. Students dance in Tiananmen Square before the arrival of the Chinese military, 4 June 1989. 3. Chinese tanks massing before…… Read More »