Here are some of the most interesting snapshots into world history.
Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. Probably the earliest born individual captured on film
The first international tennis match at Wimbledon
Princeton students after a snowball fight, 1893
Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896
Interior of a London Pub, 1898
World’s first teleobjective, 1900
The ceiling of the Russian Parliament collapsed, 1907
A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach, 1920
The unbroken seal on Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922 (3,245 years untouched)
Factory workers race on the roof (test track) of the Fiat Factory in Turin, Italy, 1923
Filming of the MGM screen credits – The beginning of the Hollywood era, 1928
The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, 1928
A flight simulator in 1942
Coca Cola is introduced in France, 1950
Uploading 🙂 the first 5 MByte hard disk to a PanAm plane, 1956
Charlton Heston as Moses in “The Ten Commandments,” drive-in theater, Utah, 1958
Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer “Ip” in Beverly Hills, CA, 1958
A swimmobile in New York City, 1960
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960
The East Bay Dragons, the first black bikers’ club, Oakland, California, 1960s
Canteen for Disney workers, 1961
The Beatles play for 18 people in the Aldershot club, December 1961. They were to become superstars in one and a half years’ time
Test pilot George Aird – flying a English Electric Lightning F1 – ejected from his English Electric Lightning F1 aircraft at a fantastically low altitude in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 13th September 1962
Early morning train, Japan, 1964
The Prague Spring of 1968: Soviet soldier chasing young man who had thrown stones at a tank
Man working at analog computer, 1968
A stripper visits the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, late 1970s
A foreskin away from death: a Pakistani soldier during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence examines whether the man is circumcised or not (i.e. Hindus are not)
Highway picnic during the Oil Crisis, 1973
Due to strong crosswinds, a landing plane crashes with a truck standing near the runway, 1976
Steven Spielberg doing the first Indiana Jones movie in 1980
The glasses John Lennon wore when he was assassinated, 1980
Richard “Dick” Lasher was on his way to drive his dirt bike when Mount St Helen erupted. (May 1980). He survived.
Transporting one of the first Indian satellites, 1981
Black officer protecting KKK member from protesters, 1983
Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as a young man, 1986
Moving a 7600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987
See also:
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of World History Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Rarely Seen “Enchanted” Moments of US History Part 1, Part 2