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A bust statue of Roald Amundsen

Amundsen reaches South Pole

The inside of the Channel Tunnel

Chunnel makes breakthrough

Bill Clinton in front of red and white stripes

House of Representatives approves impeachment proceedings against President Clinton

A pillar in honor of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, located on the grounds of the Museum of Natural History.

First Nobel Prizes are awarded

Original movie film projector

First commercial movie screened

Protesters hold up an effigy of Enron's Kenneth Lay

Enron files for bankruptcy

King Edward VIII's monogram

Edward VIII abdicates

The Lennon Wall in Prague

John Lennon is shot

Pilgrim Monument with the Mayflower Compact bas-relief - Provincetown, Massachusetts

Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore at Plymouth Harbour

US battleships severely damaged at Pearl Harbour

Pearl Harbor is bombed

Second lock of the Panama Canal

Panama Canal handed over to Panama

The Garden of Remembrance for Pan Am Flight 103, that was brought down by a bomb in December 1988, at the Dryfesdale Cemetery in Scotland.

Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland

Destroyed hotel in Beirut, Lebanon

Terry Anderson freed in Lebanon

Thirty-foot tall bronze sculpture of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein is captured

Statue of the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu

Romanian government falls as Ceausecu is swept from power

Soviet Union flag flying against a blue sky

The USSR is established

Leaning Pisa Tower, Italy

The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens

Nocturnal gathering of robed and hooded Ku Klux Klan men in 1921-1922. Photo by National Photo Company and was likely taken within 100 miles of Washington, D.C.

The first KKK is founded

Orville Wright 1871-1948 in flight over treetops covering a distance of approximately 1 760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds at Huffman Prairie Dayton Ohio. November 16 1904.

The first aeroplane takes flight

Liverpool, UK. October 4, 2020. Christmas Truce statue with football and handshake in front of the bombed out church

The Christmas Truce

Tea Party, vintage engraved illustration

The Boston Tea Party signals growing disaffection among the colonies

Self-Portrait, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. He painted this when in asylum at St.-Remy, where he had committed himself following a mental breakdown

Van Gogh cuts off his ear

Close-up of a red pushpin on a map of Mogadishu, Somalia Africa - travel concept

U.S. Marines storm Mogadishu, Somalia

Two days after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Tsunami sweeps through Asia

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