Milestones

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Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, two of the murdered women of El Salvador
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa
The Death of Franco
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.
Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.
The Nineteenth Amendment
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote
Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.
Srebrenica and its Memory
US Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., signing the UN Charter on 26 June 1945. President Truman stands by at left (UN Photo/Yould).
The Signing of the United Nations Charter
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller
Kent State after Fifty Years
Image reading "there is no news tonight"
“No News Day” at the BBC
This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Treaty of Waitangi
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War
Graffiti reading "Ireland a Nation, Irish and Free"
The Provisional Irish Republican Army
"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles
The Versailles Treaty Fight
Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944
The Liberation of Paris
Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.
Fly Me to the Moon
2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.
The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey
Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)
The Hamilton-Burr Duel
"Gay Liberation" by George Segal
Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution
Greek troops with a machine gun during the war
The Greco-Turkish War
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre