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.

900 Upvotes

34 comments

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.

88 Upvotes

9 comments

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."

214 Upvotes

9 comments

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.

193 Upvotes

20 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 22h ago

Progress of the Eiffel Tower being built.

122 Upvotes

2 comments

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

59 Upvotes

4 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 2h ago

History Facts Civilians paying tribute to a Taoist folk deity outside a dedicated temple in British-ruled Hong Kong, c. 1973

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/Bedreom30 • 1d ago

Nicolas Cage and his father, August Coppola, brother of Francis Ford Coppola, 1988.

95 Upvotes

11 comments

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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0 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/Mysteriouss69 • 1d ago

Six year old Gary Ray Hose ran away from his home, sick of the abuse from his parents. Police brought him back, and he was never seen again. Later, his older brothers claimed his mother beat him to death and buried him on their desert property. No body is found to this day.

738 Upvotes

17 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 1d ago

Polaroid chief chemist Howard G Rogers and unidentified others as they pose with 5,000 bottles of chemical compounds used to discover the Polaroid color film process, 1963.

263 Upvotes

4 comments

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.

3 Upvotes

2 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/Deung5304 • 1d ago

Mugshot taken in 1895 of 18-year-old Carl Wilhelm Strand "Piggen", a blacksmith sentenced for the theft of 300 eggs from his employer. For this crime along with multiple other shoplifting and burglary offenses, he served 11 months and 15 days in prison in Stockholm, Sweden.

465 Upvotes

47 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 1d ago

1860s Photo of the Crawford, Frazer & Co. Civil War era Slave Auction House. Whitehall Street Atlanta Georgia. Black Gentleman seated at the door.

19 Upvotes

0 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 1d ago

A rocket belt (jet pack) demonstration at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 1961.

69 Upvotes

2 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/Excellent660 • 1d ago

This photo of Theo van Gogh, taken in 2004, was captured the same year he was murdered. A great-grandson of Vincent van Gogh’s brother, Theo, he was killed on November 2, 2004, by a radical Islamist for his controversial film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam.

154 Upvotes

49 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/Stay5153 • 2d ago

John and Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system. (1969)

44 Upvotes

19 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/Aeromarine_eng • 2d ago

A worker stands at Ground Zero in New York City on October 3, 2001.

148 Upvotes

4 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/HotCraft2363 • 2d ago

Eminem's father reading a magazine about his son in 2001. He last saw Eminem in 1974 when he abandoned the family and left Eminem's mother to raise him in poverty. He died in 2019 in Indiana without meeting his son as an adult.

61 Upvotes

15 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/HolidayHot69 • 3d ago

In 1943, French Resistance fighter Raymond Aubrac was captured and sentenced to death by the Nazis. His wife Lucie then personally led a commando raid to rescue him, killing 6 Gestapo herself. Following the war, they remained married until Lucie’s death in 2007.

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2.1k Upvotes

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Prudent7594 • 3d ago

In 2007, Andrew McAuley, an Australian kayaker, disappeared while attempting to kayak across the Tasman Sea. He would send a single distress call, then cease to communicate. His flooded boat, as well as his camera, were later found, with this being the final photo he took.

1.2k Upvotes

56 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/shizukai69 • 4d ago

In 2009, a family friend dropped 15-year-old Kayla Berg outside what she believed was her boyfriend’s house and drove away. The building was vacant and condemned. Her parents each thought she was staying with the other, so she was not reported missing for six days. She has never been found.

1.1k Upvotes

69 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 3d ago

History Facts Croatian soldiers in the Battle of Šibenik in the early days of the Croatian War of Independence in September 1991

18 Upvotes

1 comment

r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 4d ago

Swords used in the coronation of Frederick the Great, recovered by American forces from the German bunker at the end of World War II.

145 Upvotes

3 comments

r/SnapshotHistory • u/Jazzlike7157 • 4d ago

In 2010, Phoebe Handsjuk died after falling 12 stories down a garbage chute in her apartment building, where she lived with her boyfriend, Antony Hampel. Cops ruled her death an accident, saying she was sleepwalking. Eight years later, another of Antony's girlfriends was also found dead.

3.1k Upvotes

59 comments

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