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Muhammad Ali Saved a Suicidal Man in 1981

Does anyone know the person on the right in this picture that some of us have seen for the first time?

Muhammed Ali..

In 1981, he is trying to save a person who wants to commit suicide by jumping from the 9th floor of the building.

Ali saved a suicidal man who was threatening to jump out of a ninth-floor building in Los Angeles in 1981.

“Over the next few days, Ali spent over $2,000 getting the man clothes, an apartment and a job. The poor fellow broke down in tears. He couldn’t believe the heavyweight champion was helping him,” Bingham said.”
“He grasped Ali by the hands, tears running down his cheeks, and said: ‘I spent years alone after returning from Vietnam. ‘I became convinced that nobody cares whether I live or die, so I decided I would die – but you changed that for me. You have given me the strength to carry on,'” Bingham claimed.
Ali stayed in touch with the vet for years, Bingham said.
“The champ called him every few months. There’s no doubt that Ali saved his life and helped him get a new start,” he said.

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Hanoi During an Air Raid Alert Vietnam 1967

Hanoi is the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The population of Hanoi was the capital of Northern Vietnam between 1954 and 1976. Its population is 6,232,940 (2008).

Hanoi, the center of the French colonial government for many years, was occupied by Japan in World War II. The city was the capital of the Vietnam Socialist Republic on 2 July 1976.

The Vietnam War or the Second Indochinese War is the battle between the Eastern Bloc countries, the North Vietnamese, the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, which is the US supporter, and the USA in particular. After the Korean War, it became the second hot battle of the Cold War. US troops were involved in the war from 1963 to 1973, and about 60,000 soldiers were killed.

Please click for more Vietnam pictures by Gilles Caron 

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Erika Szeles carries sub-machine gun in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The Hungarian Revolution is a popular movement initiated against the Stalinist ruler backed by the Soviet Union in Hungary in 1956.

Mátyás Rákosi, known for his commitment to Moscow and the Prime Minister of the Hungarian Workers' Party in 1952, left his job in Imre Nagi in July 1953 shortly after the death of the USSR leader Stalin. Nagy, who softened the political pressure and embarked on some economic reforms, lost his support of Moscow and took part in office in the spring of 1955. Although Rákosi stopped the reformer development by obtaining his former position, in July 1956 this time he was removed from all his posts. On the basis of this position of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lies the intention of correcting relations with Yugoslav leader Tito, who had previously been raving with Rákosi. Ernő Gerő, who is based in Rákosi, explained that the reformist line-up will not be conceded as the first job.

Hungarian Revolution 1956

But the steps taken during the Nagy era have strengthened the demand for change between the campaign against Stalin in the USSR and the developments in Poland. On October 23, 1956 in Budapest, the students also received wide support from the march he had organized to file a petition with the authorities. As Gero fired at the crowd over the harsh democracy, the peaceful demonstrations turned into an uprising. With the participation of the army units in the rebellion, the people began to arm themselves. Local councils appeared in almost every city in the country. The villagers were attempting to occupy the expropriated land. The bureaucracy and law enforcement began to disperse rapidly. The sacrifices that Nagy, once again in power, overpowered, led to the revival of political parties in the past and almost to the power. The church has gotten old.

Erika Szeles  armed with a PPSh-42 during the Hungarian Revolution

While Soviet troops were withdrawing from Hungary, Nagy announced his decision to leave the Warsaw Pact on November 1, demanding the protection of large states through the United Nations. The Soviet troops, backed up by this development, were invaded by Budapest; While Nagy took refuge in Yugoslavia's embassy in Budapest, most of the reformist leaders were arrested. At the same time, János Kádár, who served in the Nagy government, announced that a new government had been formed with a program for reforms after the counter-revolution was suppressed. The armed resistance against the Soviet troops was broken in a night. It took a few weeks for the general strike launched by the workers to end. After the arrest, large-scale detentions took place. In the meantime, about 150 thousand Hungarians fled abroad.

After that, Time magazine selected the Hungarian people in 1956 as "Man of the Year" as "Hungarian Freedom Warriors".

Erika Kornelia Szeles

Erika Kornelia is the iconic person of this Revolution with her famous picture. The picture was taken by Danish photographer  Vagn Hansen.

Born in Budapest on January 6, 1941, came from a Jewish Communist family. Erika joined the uprising with an older friend after Soviet forces invaded Hungary.During a resistance operation, Erika was mortally wounded in a street fight with Soviet soldiers on November 8th 1956 and died on the spot.

Erika Szeles was a young soldier and nurse in the Hungarian Revo

Erika's image graced the covers of several Euopean magazines and she became an international symbol of the revolution.

During a resistance operation, Erika was mortally wounded in a street fight with Soviet soldiers on November 8th 1956 and died on the spot.

Erika Kornelia Szeles grave.

Erika was buried on November 14th 1956 at Kerepesi Churchyard in Budapest. The grave number is 21/1/24, and the gravestone still exists today.

In 2006 in the 60th anniversary of Revolution, her picture was there.

Anniversary of Revolution Hungarian

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Propellers of the Olympic 1908s

The Olympic Vessel;

It is the first of the three excellent vessels of the White Star Line company. They are  Olympic, Titanic and  Britannic. Interestingly, each god has a strange story, with memories scraped.

Olympic (on left ) and Titanic ( right ) in 2nd March 1912

The Olympic was the biggest vessel in the world during 1911 and 1913 until the Titanic has made.

Titanic was very similar to his old sister RMS Olympic. The spine was almost the same as the Olympic, although the volume and the registered tonnage were higher.

The Grand Staircase of the Olympic

However, there were some differences. The most obvious difference was that the front of the Titanic deck was covered with steel walls with sliding windows, while Olympic's complex was open. The B deck was also downscaled to Olympic, used for additional cabins and common rooms. When the Olympic was built, there was no Cafe Parisien like the Titanic had.

 This feature was not added until 1913. Some defects found in Ollympic Titanic'de corrected. For example, the sound of the junction at the back of the ship. The windows on the deck of the Titanic were circular, and the Olympic ones were oval. The tower of the tower was made narrower and longer. Because of this and other changes, the registered extra 1,004 gross tons was slightly heavier than Olympic and was the largest ship in 1912 to do the first journey.

Titanic and Olympic Alternative Theories

Two sister ships of the same size as the Titanic were built. The names of these vessels belonging to the same company are Olympic and Britannic. The most familiar theory starts here. Robin Gandiner's book Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? According to the Titanic, it was submerged to get the insured money. Gandhiner: In 1911, the "Olympic" owned by the Titanic's owner White Star collided with the HMS Hawke of the British Navy and suffered a deep wound. But when the Navy rejected this crime, the company did not receive compensation. The White Star changed the name to Titanic and plunged the ship to get money from insurance. According to Gardiner, this is also the basis for the different number of lobes.

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Adolf Adi Dassler Adolf 1954

Adolf "Adi" Dassler (born November 3, 1900, Herzogenaurach, Bavarian Kingdom, German Empire - September 6, 1978, Herzogenaurach, West Germany) is the founder of the Adidas company.

Adolf Dassler, who had previously studied shoemaking, began to make his first shoes in the kitchen of his mother, with the help of his father, Christoph Dassler, after World War I. On 1 July 1924, with the help of his brother Rudolf Dassler, he founded a factory called "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik" (Dassler Brothers Shoes Factory). As a result, they soon became recognized in Germany.

At the 1928 Olympics, the Dassler Brothers' company expanded internationally and began to wear many sportsmen. Jesse Owens of the USA was equipped at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. As long as Jesse Owens wears Adi's shoes, he has won four gold medals.

Along with the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1930, both the Dassler Brothers and the National Socialist Hitler joined the Nazi Party. While Adi was preparing to produce battle boots for Wehrmacht, Rudolf was caught by American soldiers, but he was suspected of Hitler's SS member.

In 1948, the disagreements between the two brothers increased and Rudolf left the company and founded Puma AG on the other side of the city, along the banks of the Aurach River. Adolf replaces the company with Adidas, whose name is derived from his nickname, First and Last name Dassler. In 1973, Adolf's son, Horst, founded the company Arena, which will operate in the field of swimming products. After Adolf's death in 1978, Horst and his wife, Käthe Adidas, take over. After the death of Horst in 1987, the company became a limited liability company in 1989 and a stock exchange in 1995.

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A Mongolian Mystic Shaman 1909

A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.

The word "shaman" probably originates from the Tungusic Evenki language of North Asia. According to ethnolinguist Juha Janhunen, "the word is attested in all of the Tungusic idioms" such as Negidal, Lamut, Udehe/Orochi, Nanai, Ilcha, Orok, Manchu and Ulcha, and "nothing seems to contradict the assumption that the meaning 'shaman' also derives from Proto-Tungusic" and may have roots that extend back in time at least two millennia.The term was introduced to the west after Russian forces conquered the shamanistic Khanate of Kazan in 1552.

The term "shamanism" was first applied by western anthropologists as outside observers of the ancient religion of the Turks and Mongols, as well as those of the neighboring Tungusic and Samoyedic-speaking peoples. Upon observing more religious traditions across the world, some caucasian anthropologists began to also use the term in a very broad sense, to describe unrelated magico-religious practices found within the ethnic religions of other parts of Asia, Africa, Australasia and even completely unrelated parts of the Americas, as they believed these practices to be similar to one another. ( Source, Wikipedia )

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Neighborhood in war time in England

The use of toxic gas in World War 1 was a major military innovation. Gases have continued as chemical agents such as tear gas,  mustard gas and chlorine.

This chemical war was, firstly, a major component of global warfare and the first major war of the 20th century. The gas killing capacity (only 3% of those killed in combat, because of gas ).

Nonetheless, the proportion of non-fatal injuries was high and gas remained one of the greatest fears of the soldiers. It was possible to take effective measures against the gases, different from other weapons of the time. As a result, the effectiveness of the gas was increased, and in many cases the effectiveness of the war was reduced in later stages.

The widespread use of these agents in chemical warfare and the time of war have been documented in the advancement of powerful explosives. So much so that the "war of chemists" was among the rising values ​​of the First Word War.

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Into the Jaws of Death 6th June 1944

U.S troops wading throug heavy surf and heavy Nazi Machine gun fire. June 6 1944

This great picture has photographed by Robert Sargent in 6 June 1944 in Omaha Beach in D-Day Operation.

Things have not gone so well since Omaha Beach. The planes bombed the shores and the trenches opened up for soldiers, but a successful bombardment could not be arranged for Omaha, and Allied troops made a shoreline without any kind of ship.

The Allies knew that in heavy-duty rifle battles, the soldiers would give heavy losses in the shores where there was no shield. They designed their light tanks to go in the water. All four sides of the tank were covered with high cloths, so water was prevented from getting inside. Omaha Beach was very choppy, and Allied tanks could not stand this wave, and they battled.

British tank commanders did not put their tanks into the sea because they knew they would not be able to get to the tide. The Allies, who have a large number of marketplaces, were able to control Omaha eventually with large losses.

The image was evoked in the 1998 Hollywood movie of Saving Private Ryan.

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Captured German Soldiers in Normady 1944

After D-Day Operation some captured German soldiers by Allies.

The Invasion of Normandy  is an offensive strike committed by the Allied forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower between June and September 1944. After the departure of the Allies, it led to the German ceasefire being cleared and almost back to the middle of France.

Another name for the Normandy is Overlord Operation.

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Nicholas II of Russia in Nagasaki 1891

Nicolas II is the last emperor of the Russian Empire and the last member of the Romanov dynasty.

He is in Nagasaki journey in 1891 before his Tsar.

After the February Revolution of 1917, he was dethorned. He and his family were first held in Kharskoye Selo, then in Tobolsk, and lastly in Yekaterinburg. After the October Revolution, the night of 16/17 July 1918 was killed in the basement of the house where the Bolsheviks, along with his wife, children, family physicians, butlers and cooks, were kept. In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church was declared saint.

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Soviet Soldier

Fall of Hitler..

Sovyet soldier has Hitler's (statue) head, 1945 World War II

The area beyond the Brandenburg Gate was controlled by the Soviets for nearly 40 years after World War II.

Brandenburg Gate Berlin 1945

After the war, Berlin was like a post-apocalyptic world. One of the largest and most modern cities in Europe has almost become a ruin. There were heaps of rubble everywhere. All architectural structures in cities like Schlüter, Knobelsdorf, Schadow and Schinkel were destroyed. Palaces, museums, churches, monuments and cultural sites were bombed.

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Gilles Caron Vietnam November 1967

This picture has taken by Gilles Caron in 1967 and it is is exhibited in the Elysee Museum  in France.

Gilles Caron was a French photographer and photojournalist.

US Soldier in Vietnam December 1967

He started his career as a fashion photographer.

Vietnam War

In 1965, he worked in Paris Agency for Social Information. In 1967, together with several colleagues, they founded the photo agency Gamma.

A ten years old vietnamese child soldier called little tiger

As a photographer he worked in Israel, Vietnam, Biafra, Northern Ireland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Tibesti, Mexico and others.

Ibo soldier in Biefra for Nigerian Civil War

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Nazi Soldiers in Nuremberg Rally

Nuremberg Rallies was a gathering point for The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party, NSDAP) from 1923 to 1938 in Nazi Germany and the Republic of Weimar.

The first gatherings by NSDAP took place in 1923 in Munich and 1926 in Weimar. It was only in Nuremberg after 1927. Nürnberg was chosen for pragmatic reasons. This city was a good place.

Nazi Soldiers in Nuremberg Rally

The Nuremberg police were sympathetic to these rallies. The party, the army and the state reached a peak with the number of participants from all walks and the number of over half a million participants growing every year. The demonstration of power at these meetings was not only limited to the area of ​​rallies; A walk to the city center was also carried out by enthusiastic crowds.

Party congresses were held to symbolize solidarity between the German people and the Nazi Party. The first goal of the Nuremberg gatherings was to reinforce Adolf Hitler's extreme glory. It was portrayed that Hitler would be the savior of Germany. The gathering masses listened to the Führer's speeches and fed him loyalty.

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İşgal sonrası Polonya'da toplama kampına gönderilen bir kız

Nazi Almanyası 1 Eylül 1939 yılında Polonya'ya girdi ve sadece 1 ayda Polonyayı işgal etti. 1939 yılı sonuna kadar 60.000 Polonyalı öldürüldü.

Özellikle Varşova'da yoğunlukla bulunan yahudiler Ghetto diye tabir edilen Yahudi mahallelerinde yaşamaktaydılar.

Hitlerin özel fotoğrafçısı Hugo Jaeger Kutno bölgesindeki Ghetto'ya girdi ve çok özel resimler çekti. İşte bunlardan bir tanesi de Ekim 1939 yılında Hugo Jaeger'in resmini çektiği ve muhtemelen başına geleceklerden de habersiz olan bu kızdı.

Kutno Ghetto bölgesinde bir kız

Başına geleceklerden habersizdi çünkü Kutno bölgesindeki Yahudiler daha sonra toplama kamplarına götürülerek öldürüldü yada Nazi Almanya'sı için fabrikalarda çalıştırıldılar.

Hugo Jaeger, müttefiklerin 1945 yılında Almanya'ya girmesi üzerine bu fotoğraflardan dolayı savaş suçundan yargılanmamak için fotoğrafları deriyle kapladığı bir cama saklayarak Münih'te bir araziye gömdü. Resimlerin güvende olduğunu kontrol etmek için de ara ara gelerek kontrol etti.

Hugo Jaeger, saklamış olduğu resimleri 2. Dünya Savaşı bittikten 20 yıl sonra Life Dergisine sattı.

Resimlerde birçok kişi ve konu daha sonradan tanınmasına rağmen, objektife gülümseyen bu kızın kim olduğu asla bulunamadı.

Hugo Jaeger, Kutno Gettosu

Çadırlarının dışından Hitlerin özel fotoğrafçısına gülümseyen insanlar..

Hugo Jaeger, Kutno Gettosunda resim çekiyor

1940 yılına gelindiğinde artık kalacak evleri bile kalmamıştı.

Arabada yaşayan yahudiler

1942'de Naziler, Hitler'in "nihai çözümünün" bir parçası olarak Polonya Yahudilerinin tümünü ortadan kaldırma planı olan Reinhardt Operasyonuna başladı. 1942 baharında Kutno getto'sunun tamamı tasfiye edilmişti.

1939 yılında Kutno

Resimleri orijinal kaynağından okumak için tıklayınız.

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Hitler Pariste Renkli fotoğraf

Hitler, Parisi ele geçirdikten sonra Eyfel Kulesi önünde resim çektiriyor.

Hitler Pariste

Alman kuvvetleri, 14 Haziran 1940’ta Paris’e girdi. Bir haftadan kısa bir süre sonra, yenilen ve işgal edilen Fransa, Almanya ile ateşkes imzaladı

Hitler Eyfel Kulesi Önünde

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Ford Model T Changing Lamps 1910

Changing street lamps with Ford Model T truck, 1910

The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, T‑Model Ford, Model T, T, Leaping Lena, or flivver) is an automobile that was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting.
The Ford Model T was named the most influential car of the 20th century in the 1999 Car of the Century competition, ahead of the BMC Mini, Citroën DS, and Volkswagen Type 1.Ford's Model T was not only successful because it provided inexpensive transportation on a massive scale, but also because the car signified innovation for the rising middle class and became a powerful symbol of America's age of modernization. With 16.5 million sold it stands eighth on the top ten list of most sold cars of all time as of 2012 ( source wikipedia)

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20 February Today in History

What Happened 20 February Today in History 

• 1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
• 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
• 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
• 1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
• 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
• 1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
• 1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
• 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
• 1816 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
• 1835 – The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
• 1846 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
• 1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
• 1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
• 1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• 1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
• 1921 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.
• 1931 – The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
• 1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
• 1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
• 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
• 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• 1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
• 1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
• 1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
• 1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
• 1956 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
• 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
• 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
• 1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
• 1967 – Intergovernmental Group on Indonesia convenes its first meeting in Amsterdam.
• 1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
• 1979 – Earthquake cracks Sinila volcanic crater in Dieng Plateau, releases poisonous H2S gas and kills 149 villagers in Indonesian province of Central Java.
• 1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
• 1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• 1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
• 1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
• 2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
• 2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
• 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
• 2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
• 2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
• 2015 – Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
• 2016 – Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.

20 February Today in History Births

• 1358 – Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
• 1469 – Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
• 1494 – Johan Friis, Danish statesman (d. 1570)
• 1631 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1712)
• 1633 – Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (d. 1702)
• 1705 – Nicolas Chédeville, French musette player and composer (d. 1782)
• 1726 – William Prescott, American colonel (d. 1795)
• 1745 – Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (d. 1813)
• 1751 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic (d. 1826)
• 1753 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1815)
• 1759 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (d. 1813)
• 1792 – Eliza Courtney, French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1859)
• 1794 – William Carleton, Irish author (d. 1869)
• 1802 – Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1870)
• 1819 – Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician (d. 1882)
• 1839 – Benjamin Waugh, English activist, founded the NSPCC (d. 1908)
• 1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906)
• 1844 – Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer (d. 1909)
• 1848 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1909)
• 1857 – A. P. Lucas, English cricketer (d. 1923)
• 1866 – Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum (d. 1936)
• 1867 – Louise, Princess Royal of England (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Jay Johnson Morrow, American engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (d. 1937)
• 1874 – Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress (d. 1967)
• 1879 – Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1907)
• 1880 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (d. 1923)
• 1887 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (d. 1948)
• 1889 – Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and physician (d. 1948)
• 1893 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1993)
• 1895 – Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (d. 1924)
• 1899 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1992)
• 1901 – René Dubos, French-American biologist and author (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect, designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (d. 1984)
• 1901 – Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
• 1906 – Gale Gordon, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (d. 1994)
• 1913 – Tommy Henrich, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 1914 – John Charles Daly, South African–American journalist and game show host (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer
• 1918 – Leonore Annenberg, American businesswoman and diplomat (d. 2009)
• 1919 – James O'Meara, English soldier and pilot (d. 1974)
• 1920 – Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (d. 1992)
• 1923 – Victor G. Atiyeh, American businessman and politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985)
• 1923 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Gloria Vanderbilt, American actress and fashion designer
• 1925 – Robert Altman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, choreographer, and director
• 1926 – Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (d. 1998)
• 1927 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer and activist (d. 1986)
• 1927 – Sidney Poitier, American actor, director, and diplomat
• 1928 – Roy Face, American baseball player and carpenter
• 1928 – Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland
• 1929 – Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1931 – John Milnor, American mathematician and academic
• 1932 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Bobby Unser, American race car driver
• 1935 – Ellen Gilchrist American novelist, short story writer, and poet
• 1936 – Marj Dusay, American actress
• 1936 – Larry Hovis, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1937 – David Ackles, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
• 1937 – Robert Huber, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Roger Penske, American race car driver and businessman
• 1937 – Nancy Wilson, American singer and actress
• 1938 – Richard Beymer, American actor, director, and cinematographer
• 1938 – Wiley W. Hilburn, American journalist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Lim Kit Siang, Malaysian lawyer and politician
• 1941 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1942 – Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1942 – Mitch McConnell, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 1942 – Claude Miller, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Antonio Inoki, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and politician
• 1943 – Mike Leigh, English director and screenwriter
• 1944 – Robert de Cotret, Canadian economist and politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1999)
• 1944 – Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1945 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1946 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
• 1946 – Sandy Duncan, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1946 – J. Geils, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
• 1947 – Peter Strauss, American actor and producer
• 1948 – Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1948 – Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-American model and actress
• 1948 – Billy Zoom, American guitarist
• 1949 – Eddie Hemmings, English cricketer
• 1949 – Mab Segrest, American author and activist
• 1949 – Ivana Trump, Czech-American socialite and model
• 1950 – Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1950 – Peter Marinello, Scottish footballer
• 1950 – Tony Wilson, English journalist and businessman (d. 2007)
• 1951 – Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Gordon Brown, Scottish historian and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1951 – Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1951 – Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
• 1953 – Poison Ivy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1954 – Jon Brant, American bass player
• 1954 – Anthony Head, English actor
• 1954 – Patty Hearst, American actress and author
• 1957 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Scott Brayton, American race car driver (d. 1996)
• 1959 – David Corn, American journalist and author
• 1959 – Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
• 1960 – Joel Hodgson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
• 1960 – Cándido Muatetema Rivas, Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Steve Lundquist, American swimmer
• 1962 – Dwayne McDuffie, American author, screenwriter, and producer, co-founded Milestone Media (d. 2011)
• 1963 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Ian Brown, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1963 – Joakim Nystrom, Swedish tennis player
• 1963 – Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Health
• 1964 – Willie Garson, American actor and director
• 1964 – Tom Harris, Scottish journalist and politician
• 1964 – Jeff Maggert, American golfer
• 1964 – French Stewart, American actor
• 1966 – Cindy Crawford, American model and businesswoman
• 1967 – Paul Accola, Swiss alpine skier
• 1967 – Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994)
• 1967 – David Herman, American comedian and actor
• 1967 – Andrew Shue, American actor and activist, founded Do Something
• 1967 – Lili Taylor, American actress
• 1967 – Tom Waddle, American football player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Kjell Ove Hauge, Norwegian school principal and track and field athlete
• 1969 – Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Danis Tanović, Bosnian director and screenwriter
• 1971 – Calpernia Addams, American actress, author, and activist
• 1971 – Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
• 1971 – Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player (d. 2017)
• 1972 – Neil Primrose, Scottish drummer
• 1974 – Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer and manager
• 1975 – Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 1975 – Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1975 – Niclas Wallin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1977 – Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
• 1978 – Lauren Ambrose, American actress and producer
• 1980 – Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
• 1980 – Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer
• 1981 – Tony Hibbert, English footballer
• 1981 – Fred Jackson, American football player
• 1982 – Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
• 1983 – Jose Morales, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1983 – Justin Verlander, American baseball player
• 1984 – Brian McCann, American baseball player
• 1984 – Trevor Noah, South African comedian, actor, and television host
• 1984 – Ramzee Robinson, American football player
• 1985 – Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
• 1985 – Julia Volkova, Russian singer and actress
• 1987 – Luke Burgess, English rugby league player
• 1987 – Miles Teller, American actor
• 1988 – Jiah Khan, American-Indian actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1988 – Ki Bo-bae, South Korean archer
• 1988 – Rihanna, Barbadian-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 – Daly Cherry-Evans, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – Hidilyn Diaz, Filipino weightlifter
• 1991 – Giovanni Kyeremateng, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player
• 1991 – Antonio Pedroza, English-Mexican footballer
• 1991 – Jocelyn Rae, English-Scottish tennis player
• 1992 – Kyle Turner, Australian rugby league player

20 February Today in History Deaths

• 789 – Leo of Catania, saint and bishop of Catania (b. 709)
• 1054 – Yaroslav the Wise, husband of Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden (b. 978)
• 1154 – Saint Wulfric of Haselbury (b. c. 1080)
• 1171 – Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
• 1194 – Tancred, King of Sicily (b. 1138)
• 1258 – Al-Musta'sim, Iraqi caliph (b. 1213)
• 1408 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1342)
• 1431 – Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
• 1524 – Tecun Uman, Mayan ruler (b. 1500)
• 1579 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
• 1618 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
• 1626 – John Dowland, English lute player and composer (b. 1563)
• 1762 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723)
• 1771 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1678)
• 1773 – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
• 1778 – Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (b. 1711)
• 1790 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
• 1806 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (b. 1725)
• 1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean rebel leader (b. 1767)
• 1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
• 1893 – P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
• 1895 – Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 – Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1920 – Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
• 1920 – Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1936 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
• 1957 – Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)
• 1961 – Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 – Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 – Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 – René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1981 – Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Wayne Boring, American illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1992 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (b. 1898)
• 1992 – Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (b. 1916)
• 1993 – Ernest L. Massad, American general (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Solomon Asch, American psychologist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Toru Takemitsu, Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
• 1999 – Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
• 2001 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2003 – Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani air marshal (b. 1947)
• 2003 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Orville Freeman, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
• 2005 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Emily Perry, English actress and dancer (b. 1907)
• 2009 – Larry H. Miller, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Alexander Haig, American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Knut Torbjørn Eggen, Norwegian footballer and manager (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Katie Hall, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (b. 1970)
• 2013 – David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Walter D. Ehlers, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Garrick Utley, American journalist (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Govind Pansare, Indian author and activist (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Henry Segerstrom, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 2015 – John C. Willke, American physician, author, and activist (b. 1925)
• 2016 – Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician (b. 1934)

20 February Today in History Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• Eleutherius of Tournai
• Eucherius of Orléans
• Bls. Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto
• Frederick Douglass (Episcopal Church (USA))
• Wulfric of Haselbury
• February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Heavenly Hundred Heroes (Ukraine)
• World Day of Social Justice (International)

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Woolworth Building Workplace Safety 1926

Woolworth Building is a skyline in New York City, USA. The building is located on Broadway Avenue. The building was built between 1910 and 1913 as the headquarters of the F. W. Woolworth Company and is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the city. The building is 241.4 meters high and has 57 floors. When it was built, it was the world's tallest building until the completion of 40 Wall Street in 1930.

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Harley Davidson police motorcycle and mobile booking center.

Once upon times Harley motorcycles was using for mobile booking center.

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British Motorcycle Army 1940

British army (F 3195)  in France in 1940

Motorcycle combinations of 4th Northumberland Fusiliers at Fontaine, 20 March 1940.

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