This is the Canberra Bomber flying through an RAAF Amberley base hanger in 1955. We’re not sure who the man is ducking down…or why he was there.
Jacob Miller was shot in the head at the Battle of Chickamagua on September 19, 1863. Jacob stated, “Seventeen years after I was wounded a buck shot dropped out of my wound and thirty oneyears after two pieces of lead came out.”
There was a lot of tension during the Cuban missile crisis, so much so that the US Army deployed anti-aircraft Hawk missiles on a Florida beach in Key West. Photo was taken October 27, 1962.
hese two bullets were found after the Battle of Gallipoli which started in 1915 and ended in 1916 during WWI.
The Allies consisted of British, French, Australia and New Zealand against a fierce Turkish Army. In the end, the allied side lost 46,000 troops while the Turkish lost 65,000, with the Allies retreating from the battle.
The Turks still consider their victory at Gallipoli to be a great, defining moment in the nation’s modern history. Eight years later, the Turkish War of Independence broke out, led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Ataturk was a commander at the battle of Gallipoli.
The battle was also Australia and New Zealand’s first military campaign as independent dominions in the British Empire. It was a formative moment in the national consciousness of both countries.
The nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear devices detonated by the United States between 1946 to 1958.
Test weapons were detonated on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air and underwater. The actual island, Bikini Atoll, is one island of 23 islands that comprises the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Nuclear testing began in July of 1946 with Operation Crossroads. The nukes rendered the island and surrounding area uninhabitable due to radioactivity, stemming mostly from caesium-137.
If you’ve ever seen Boardwalk Empire, then you know the extent in which bootleggers will go to keep their business thriving. When police entered a home and find illegal booze, the process was to literally dispose of it. This apartment building evidently had a pretty strong business going.
This Sylacauga, Alabama resident is one of the only people (maybe the only person) to be struck by a meteorite. The 8 1/2 pound chunk of space rock crashed through the roof of her home, hit her radio, and ricocheted into her side and hand. It left this nasty bruise, which looks eerily like a meteorite itself.
In 1911, Yale University professor and explorer Hiram Bingham ventured into the mountainous jungles of central Peru in search of an ancient Incan city.
While seeking the lost city of Vilcabamba, Bingham came across Machu Picchu. Bingham later wrote that “Machu Picchu might prove to be the largest and most important ruin discovered in South America since the days of the Spanish conquest.
Bingham took the first photo of Machu Picchu, but he may not have been the first Westerner to discover it. There were challenges in Bingham’s day, and a recent discovery suggests it may have been a German man named Augusto Berns, who attempted to mount an expedition to raid Incan ruins for treasure after buying a plot of land in the area. Machu Picchu is shown on one of his maps, from 1874.
The tower was built in the Swedish capital of Stockholm to connect over 5,000 telephone wires. It was shortly before telephone companies started burying their wires. Good thing, since the city’s residents hated it. The tower burned down in 1953.
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of World War II. It was signed by representatives from the Empire of Japan, the United States of America, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Dominion of New Zealand. The signing took place on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.