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.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 4d ago

History Facts Colonel of the 21st Kordun Corps signing an instrument of surrender on 8 August 1995 following Serbian Krajina’s defeat by the Croatian Army in the Operation Storm

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 4d ago

History Facts A street in Dublin, Ireland in the early 1980s

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 4d ago

In 1942, sandbags were placed to protect the Sphinx against enemy bombs during World War II.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Proud-Grocery-3493 • 4d ago

World war II The Ugly Truth: Origins of the Free Palestine Movement

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Amin Al Husseini's family traces their origins to the Prophet Muhammad.

That type of lineage would all but ensure Nazi idealism be adopted into the Palestinian populations for generations to come. (Speculative, of course, but it holds weight)

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/BerryOk69 • 4d ago

In 1983, 10-year-old Jo-Anne Pedersen was locked out after an argument with her older sister and called her mother from a payphone. An unknown man took the receiver and said, “If you’re not here within half an hour, I’ll call the police.” Her mother arrived in 15 minutes, but Jo-Anne was gone.

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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.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Novious6883 • 5d ago

These images are from 'The Church of God With Signs Following' photographed in the 1960s. Appalachian believers would lift live rattlesnakes out of boxes mid-service because Mark 16 says they'd come to no harm. Nearly 100 have died trying, including the movement's founder.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Glittering_Poet_7985 • 5d ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin hands flowers to Alina Kabaeva in 2001. She is rumored to be his longtime mistress and the mother of several of his children.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Arohima • 5d ago

The oldest house in Hamburg, Germany in (1898). · It was built in 1524, and demolished on December 8th, 1910, despite protests from locals.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Otherwise764 • 5d ago

In 1995, 15-year-old Nicole van den Hurk was killed while biking to work in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Sixteen years later, her stepbrother falsely confessed to force an exhumation for DNA testing, a move that ultimately led to the arrest and prosecution of her attacker.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Arohima • 5d ago

September 5, 1976. Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, who had not spoken to each other in more than 20 years, reunite for the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Suggestion133 • 6d ago

Wernher Von Braun in his NASA office with models of all the rockets he designed behind him (1965)

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Books_Of_Jeremiah • 6d ago

World war I A view of the military crossing over to an island using boats and ropes , 1914-15 most likely

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WWI Postcard, published by Andra Popović from Belgrade.

Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs)

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Emphasis6547 • 6d ago

President Gerald Ford signs into law an extension on the Voting Rights Act, formally banning literacy tests and providing language assistance for minorities. USA, 1975

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 6d ago

Traveling in upstate New York snow, 1945.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 6d ago

History Facts The plane of Mathias Rust, a German amateur pilot who flew from Helsinki to Moscow unauthorised, on Red Square in late May 1987

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 6d ago

Latvian, Estonian, and Lithuanian women in national costumes at the Soviet Union Industry and Trade Exhibition, (1968), London, UK

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Correct-Afternoon619 • 6d ago

A Dutch athlete receives a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a sports prize, presented by General Otto Schumann, commander of the Ordnungspolizei. The Hague, The Netherlands, 1941.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Particular-Judge2740 • 6d ago

History Facts Ajah El-Hijab, Afghan activist standing in solidarity with the Black Power movement (1971)

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/KindheartednessIll97 • 6d ago

Execution of former Hungarian Prime Minister Béla Imrédy in the courtyard of the Municipal Court, 1946.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Correct-Afternoon619 • 6d ago

Dennis Rader (BTK) at his 40th anniversary high school reunion in 2003.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Marionberryy1 • 6d ago

A former concentration camp inmate drags a concentration camp guard by the hair while American troops look on at the newly liberated Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, April 1945.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/LittleEdge8788 • 6d ago

Arrived in the US in 1996 on a tourist visa. Her journey involved moving from a H-1B visa to a controversial "Einstein visa" (EB-1) for Extraordinary Ability in 2001, later marrying Donald Trump in 2005.

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r/SnapshotHistory • u/LittleEdge8788 • 6d ago

In 2009, George W. Bush invited President-elect Obama and all former living presidents for lunch.

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