Historical images - Images that made history

[AmazingEagle]

Bosnian Serb police officer Goran Jelisic killing a man in Brčko, Bosnia, he called himself the "Serb Adolf Hitler" and bragged about killing 20-30 people per day, 1992.

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[shameful existence]

The last fully transmitted photo of Dimorphos sent by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, two seconds before the impact, Sept. 26, 2022.

 

[Beak Thing]

The last fully transmitted photo of Dimorphos sent by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, two seconds before the impact, Sept. 26, 2022.

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For comparison to show how technology has advanced, here is the photo of the first asteroid visited by a probe, 951 Gaspra, which was visited by Galileo just under 31 years ago this month.

 

[AmazingEagle]

Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Stoner holding each other's rifles, 1990.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Bosnian Serb police officer Goran Jelisic killing a man in Brčko, Bosnia, he called himself the "Serb Adolf Hitler" and bragged about killing 20-30 people per day, 1992.

Spoiler: NSFW

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Strange thing about Jelisic is that during his trial he had a lot of defenders from both sides during the war, donating money to Serbs, Bosnians and Muslims to flee the conflict. Guess he got caught up in the camp mentality and got good at killing people

 

[The Last Stand]

The Wilde Twins: Lee and Lyn.

 

[Meat Target]

Baseball pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, making the first known photographed bird-flip, 1880s.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

Alfred Hitchcock smoking a cigar with a bird, 1963

 

[AmazingEagle]

A Soviet POW stares down Henrich Himmler at a concentration camp near Minsk, Belarus, 1941.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

While we were gone we've missed the 100th anniversary of the March on Rome.

 

[Hummingbird]

Cow shoes used by moonshiners during the prohibition to disguise their footprints, 1922.

 

[Hummingbird]

A classic, Victorian couple trying not to laugh during a photoshoot (1800’s)

 

[Gypsy Corner]

Five Men (and the photographer) volunteered to stand beneath an atomic blast to prove the safety of low-grade nuclear exchanges in atmosphere. 1957

 

[Hummingbird]

A policeman issues a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini, 1957

 

[AmazingEagle]

A Mil Mi-24 helicopter delivering food to Soviet soldiers near Kabul, Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War, 1989

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

King Faisal (far left) meeting Dr. Henry Kissinger (far right). Background has the future King Fahd and another dude who knows what's up...

 

[Eddie Riggs]

Artist's depiction of the future, 1930

 

[WolfeTone]

 

[GenociderSyo]

If you were a naughty one in Dutch Asylums in the 30s you got the Lunatics Chair:

In the 1900s in Serbia you could enjoy Radium therapy:

Or how about some towel water therapy from the 1880s in the US: