People trying to disallow Kathrine Switzer from completing the Boston Marathon, however, she was able to become the first woman to ever do so in 1967.
Kids playing baseball in the slums of Washington D.C. in 1940.
First terror attack in Sweden, the Amalthea bombing 1908.
Venice, the grand canal is drained in order to allow it to be cleared of silt and mud in 1956.
Execution by cannon in Iran, 1890.
Statue of Liberty is Ready for Export in 1885.
Chevy Vega’s being shipped by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in the specially designed “Vert-A-Pac” railroad cars. Circa 1970’s.
Soviet Soldiers take group photo after overthrowing the provisional government on November 7th, 1917.
This is the Italian ship the Andrea Doria sinking after colliding with the Swedish American ship the Stockholm off the coast of New York on July 25, 1956. All of the 1134 passengers, minus the 46 who were killed on impact, were able to get off the boat safely.
Castro donating blood for the victims of the Peruvian earthquake in 1962.
First morning after Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right in 1967.
The last supposed photo of the now extinct Bali Tiger, taken in 1937.
Bob Dylan & Muhammad Ali, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1975.
Canadian with a Mark IV tank after the successful Battle of Amiens, August 1918.
Gustaf V, the King of Sweden, in a car accident (1946).
This 1940s ‘Slenderizing’ equipment promised to reduce hip, buttock and thigh fat.
Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant loom over a home located across the Kanawha River, near Poca, West Virginia, in August of 1973.
Acrobats atop a tank, entertaining Soviet troops, April 1945.
The first riders of the New York subway system on opening day. 27 october 1904.
“De Gaulle is not alone” – Three-hundred thousand Parisians protesting in support of President Charles de Gaulle during the May 1968 unrest. Champs-Élysées, Paris.
