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New York skyline the evening of September 10, 2001, the day before the world changed…
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New York skyline the evening of September 10, 2001, the day before the world changed…
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Upon seeing this Iowa farmer during his visit, Khrushchev patted his belly, exclaiming, “Now there’s a real American!” 1959.
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Upon seeing this Iowa farmer during his visit, Khrushchev patted his belly, exclaiming, “Now there’s a real American!” 1959.
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Pope Leo XIII was the earliest-born person recorded on film. Born in 1810, the pope was eighty-six when these clips were captured in 1896. For reference, the Pope was born the year after Lincoln and Darwin
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81 years ago tonight 156,000 troops waited for what would be the largest amphibious invasion in history. Many wouldn’t know whether they’d live to see another sunset. In the end, about 4,400 of them would lose their lives on the beaches of Normandy.
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Kanye West saying “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Mike Myers looks on in shock.
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General Eisenhower addressing troops the day before the D-Day landing, June 5, 1944. “The eyes of the world are upon you.”
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Footage of troops landing on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. June 6, 1944.
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The patent for toilet paper, showing the intended orientation had the paper drape over the front of the roll, not behind it. 1891.
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Marcy Borders covered in dust after the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Borders would succumb to stomach cancer in 2015, aged 42.
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“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
— George Patton
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Jimmy Carter has turned 100 years old! Carter, who served at the 39th President of the United States, is the longest-lived former president and the first to reach the milestone in the nation’s history!
Happy Birthday, Mr. President! 🎉
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General Ulysses Grant (right) sitting next to President Andrew Johnson in June 1865.
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Imagine judging people for having fun when it doesn’t negatively affect you/anyone else 🤯
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John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963. JFK was assassinated the very next month.
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Jimmy Carter was born closer to the death of both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (d. 1826) than to the present day! #Carter100
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Blanche Monnier was a French woman noted for her beauty. She wished to marry an old lawyer that her mother disapproved of, so her mother locked her daughter in a small dark room in an attic for 25 years. She was rescued in 1901 at aged 52.
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This is the actual flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814 during the Battle of Baltimore, which inspired the anthem "The Star Spangled Banner". Photograph from 1873.
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Eisenhower walking through a cemetery in Normandy, France, the final resting place of many from D-Day, 1964
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A Ku Klux Klan member dangles a hangman’s noose from his vehicle to deter African Americans from voting in an upcoming municipal primary election. Miami, Florida, 1939
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The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of an unidentified man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City.
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Jimmy Carter was 3 years old when sliced bread was first introduced in July 1928. Carter has thus experienced all of the greatest things since sliced bread. 🍞
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J.P. Morgan was self-conscious about his rosacea and hated being photographed. Here is a rare photo of Morgan capturing his appearance without being doctored. Note deformity in his nose.
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For reference, a man who died in 2025 had a grandfather who was born in 1790… when George Washington was serving his first term as President.
🚨Breaking History News🚨
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler (1841-1845), dies at 96. His grandfather left office 180 years ago.
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A daguerrotype of John Armstrong Jr with his dog, 1840. Armstrong was the last surviving delegate to the Continental Congress, dying in 1843. He is the only delegate to have been photographed.
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John Quincy Adams, photographed c. 1840s. He is the earliest-serving U.S. president ever to be photographed (having served 1825-1829).
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The scale of war can easily be forgotten until you see photos from the era. Here are LCTs with barrage balloons deployed, unloading supplies on Omaha Beach for the break-out from Normandy, during the D-Day invasion. 1944.
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Eisenhower walking through a cemetery in Normandy, France, the final resting place of many from D-Day, 1964
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The American Revolution began 250 years ago today with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. 🇺🇸
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Louis-Victor Baillot, who fought in Napoleon’s army. Before his death at the age of 105, he was last living veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, 1897
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Rare photo of general and former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant with a posture brace behind him to prevent movement during a photo session. Any movement would cause blurring due to long exposure time. ~1862.
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Robert Cornelius, who took the first self-portrait photograph, October or November 1839, an approximately quarter plate size daguerreotype. On the back is written, "The first light picture ever taken".
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The Four Corners in Kingston, NY is the only intersection in the United States in which all four structures date before the American Revolution. The oldest, the Jansen House, was built between 1663 and 1667 when the region was part of the New Netherlands colony.
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The Tetons and the Snake River. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming photgraphed by Ansel Adams. 1942
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September 11, 2001 — 10:03am: Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers as a result of fighting in the cockpit 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
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Out of over 750,000 soldiers that fought for South,these were last 3 surviving Confederate Civil War veterans, 1951.
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FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 1947
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Ulysses S. Grant's visit to China with notable Chinese Viceroy Li Hung Chang. Grant had traveled to China after his term as president during a two-year world tour. 1879.
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the Casablanca Conference. Marrakesh, Morocco, 1943.
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The only known photograph of an African American Union soldier with his family. c1863-65
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Former President Andrew Jackson shortly before his death in 1845. He was among the first presidents to be photographed.
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Rather than get caught up in today’s turmoil, let’s take some time to remember the brave men who faced danger head-on during the Normandy invasion #OnThisDay in 1944.
♥️ & 🔁 to help keep the memory of D-Day alive on X!
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Rest in Peace to the great Tom Lehrer, who helped put the periodic table of elements to song! 🎶
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Adolf Hitler receiving salutes from the German Reichstag upon declaring war on the United States, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany, 1941
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Jefferson Davis, former U.S. Senator and President of the Confederate States of America, 1885.
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Robert E. Lee, around age 38, and his son William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, around age 8, c.1845
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FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 1947
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Jimmy Carter had the longest post-presidency retirement in history. At 43 years 344 days, Carter’s retirement was longer than the age John F. Kennedy was when he started his presidency.
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🚨Breaking History News🚨
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler (1841-1845), dies at 96. His grandfather left office 180 years ago.
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Jimmy Carter with Rosalynn Smith and his mother at his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on June 5, 1946
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The first person to ever serve as U.S. president to live to 100! Happy Birthday President Carter!
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Want a break from Twitter mayhem? Here’s a photo taken in Cleveland, OH, circa early 1900s, of a child with their pet dog and cat sitting in a stroller! Now have a good day, everyone! 🐱🐶
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The Empire State Building next to the Twin Towers on the September 11 Attacks, 2001
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Nixon’s speech if Apollo 11 had failed, in which case the astronauts were stranded on the Moon, 1969.
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American Civil War veterans, filmed in 1929, describe the battles of Cole Camp & Wilson Creek, 1861.
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A US helmet sits atop a captured German machine gun, marking the location at Pointe du Hoc of fallen comrades, casualties of June 6, 1944 during D-Day.
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