Milestones

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The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.
The Munich Olympic Massacre
Carrie (left) with her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924.
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.
A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.
Jamaican Independence
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
Photograph of Augusto César Sandino, taken between 1927 and 1934
The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
Mural in Guernica based on the Picasso painting. 
Guernica and the Horrors of Modern War
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.
The Dawes Act
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.
The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war
The Bangladesh Liberation War
A photograph of Viola Desmond
Remembering Viola Desmond
Israeli troops during the battle for the Sinai
The Suez Crisis (1956)
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal. They were organized in the dock according to the importance of their positions in the Nazi leadership.
The Nuremberg Judgment
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
migrants walking down a road
Defining Refugees: 1921 and 1951
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942
Operation Barbarossa
The Ganden Monastery in Lhasa was one of the many victims of bombing during the 1956 uprising. The destruction caused to the monastery is still visible in the ruins.
The Seventeen Point Agreement: Seventy Years of China’s Occupation of Tibet
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics
Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896
the cover of a Captain America comic book
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
General Idi Amin in August, 1973.
Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971
Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, two of the murdered women of El Salvador
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador