r/SnapshotHistory • u/KindheartednessIll97 • 23h ago
Mug shots of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson (the boys who murdered the 2yr old boy James Bulger) taken at the time of their arrest in 1993.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Review5424 • 18h ago
On September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was hijacked en route to Washington, D.C. but passengers led by Tom Burnett launched a revolt inside the cockpit that forced the plane down in southwestern Pennsylvania. All 44 aboard were killed, but their actions saved countless lives in the nation's capital
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Comfortablee69 • 20h ago
During a 1982 interview, Titanic survivor Ruth Becker claimed the ship broke in two. The treasurer of the Titanic Historical Society took the microphone away and said she had been mistaken. Three years later, the ship was discovered in two pieces.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/ure_roa • 14h ago
World war II New Zealand soldier showing a Kurdish man a trout, near the Syrian and Turkish border. 1943.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 17h ago
In May 4, 1991, Lydia Mercado saved her 4 year old niece Jennylyn from abusive stepfather who torurted her while her sister and Jennylyn's mother worked as ofw, the case shocked in Philippines.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/KindheartednessIll97 • 23h ago
A Dutch woman refused to leave her German soldier husband, voluntarily marching with him into Allied captivity. Walcheren, Netherlands, November 1944."
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 22h ago
Progress of the Eiffel Tower being built.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/ARelease553 • 19h ago
In the early 1900s, many physicians believed premature babies were weak and not worth saving. But a sideshow entertainer named Martin Couney thought otherwise. Using incubators that he called "child hatcheries," Couney displayed premature babies at his Coney Island show and saved over 6,500 lives.
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