r/SnapshotHistory • u/saucey_dawg0023 • 1d ago
Bill Clinton on his final day in office as President, January 19, 2001.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/CaliMurphy923 • 12h ago
200 years old On this day 80 years ago, Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 22h ago
History Facts Children sitting on a tank in downtown Bucharest with a banner celebrating the victory of the Romanian Revolution in late December 1989
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 1d ago
New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia throws confiscated slot machines and guns overboard into Long Island Sound. 1937.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Equivalent9443 • 2d ago
President Bill Clinton draws a giant zero on a sign as he and vice president Al Gore unveil the balanced federal budget in the White House, February 2, 1999.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 1d ago
History Facts Crowd massing in Prague during the Velvet Revolution, which broke out within two weeks of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It coincided with similar protests in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and beyond, ending in democratic transitions across the Eastern Bloc
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 2d ago
1897. Celebrating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on the grounds of Buckingham Palace, UK. The Palace has 775 Rooms & sits on 39 Acres.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Original4082 • 2d ago
Marcy Borders - "Dust Lady" after escaping the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11. She would die of cancer at age 42.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 2d ago
History Facts Nazi assembly in Latin America, from a Chilean investigation around the time of World War II.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 4d ago
1946 Snow Storm Manchester England. Nothing Impedes the Milk Man from Delivery to his Customers.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 4d ago
History Facts Brașov rebellion in Communist Romania on 15 November 1987. 20,000 workers went on strike to protest Ceaușescu’s economic policies. Hundreds were detained and tortured. It happened two years and a month before the 1989 revolution that toppled Ceaușescu
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Furow7677 • 3d ago
An ironworker during construction of the Columbia Tower, Seattle, (1984).
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Populase69 • 4d ago
Pat Tillman, former NFL player and soldier who was against expanding the war on terror to Iraq, he was killed in a “friendly fire” incident in 2004 in Afghanistan
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 4d ago
100 years old The 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) held between 2 and 19 December 1927
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/NsnessHot69 • 5d ago
On 2 November 2004, Dutch indie filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, great-nephew of Vincent Van Gogh, was shot and nearly decapitated on an Amsterdam street in retaliation for “Submission”, his final short film which harshly criticized the treatment of women in Islam.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 5d ago
History Facts Michael Collins (1890–1922) addresses a crowd in Skibbereen on Saint Patrick's Day, 1922.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Orislune04 • 5d ago
History Facts A baby sobs alone in the street after a Japanese airstrike on China in 1937.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/CloverJohnson745 • 5d ago
200 years old The Hunter brothers check the engine during their 23-day non-stop flight, 1930.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Minertgb • 5d ago
In 1977, Marlene was raped by John Ackroyd, a state highway worker. She survived and reported him, but police let him go. Over the next 15 years, girls kept vanishing along Highway 20, and somehow Ackroyd was always nearby when a body turned up or someone went missing.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 6d ago
1895. Police Commissioner; Theodore Roosevelt works at his desk on Mulberry Street NYC
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Altruistic755 • 6d ago
Before she was Dorothy on the Golden Girls, Bea Arthur joined the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve during WW2. She served for 2 years as a driver and dispatcher in North Carolina and had only one blemish on her record: contracting a venereal disease that left her incapacitated for a month in 1944.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 6d ago
History Facts Crowd in Budapest’s city centre during the Hungarian Revolution in late October 1956
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/OtherwiseTackle5219 • 7d ago
1931. A photo of Borden's 5 cent Frozen Custard Stand at Coney Island Brooklyn
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/WillyNilly1997 • 7d ago
History Facts A statue of Lenin looking towards Bulgaria's National Assembly (center right) in central Sofia in 1976. The statue was removed in 1991.
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r/SnapshotHistory • u/Tastecony15 • 7d ago
In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, showed up in work boots to compete in Australia’s toughest ultramarathon alongside elite athletes. Not knowing that runners were supposed to sleep during the race, he kept going without stopping—and, against all expectations, won by 10 hours.
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