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The Hollywood sign

Congress investigates communism in Hollywood

Painting of 'The Landing of Columbus'

Columbus reaches the New World

Statue of Mao Zedong in central Lijiang

Chinese Communists embark on ‘The Long March’

Russian policeman holding a truncheon

Chechen rebels take hostages in Moscow theatre

Ethiopian flag patch on a soldier's shoulder

Ethiopia stands alone as Italy invades

Aerial image showing 'Launch Stands' and '17 Missile Erectors'

Kennedy addresses US warning of nuclear weapons in Cuba

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Peking’s Summer Palace destroyed

Black and white poster with Pablo Picasso portrait and green tree at Picasso exhibition hall, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Pablo Picasso is born in Malaga, Spain

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Orson Welles causes panic with his ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast

Harry S. Truman Presidentail dollar coin

President Truman makes the first ever televised presidential address

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Warsaw uprising against Nazi occupation ends

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First Oktoberfest

POLAND - CIRCA 1964: stamp printed by Poland, shows The crew of the spaceship Voskhod-1, circa 1964

USSR leads the space race

Speedometer in the car

Blind driver breaks land-speed record

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A New York judge reverses John Lennon’s deportation order

Red derail sign on railroad tracks and blurred train as background

Train derails in Mexico