Milestones

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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
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
protests by the Yellow Vest movement
France at the Barricades, 1934
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
On August 8, 1918, 17,000 German soldiers surrendered to the Allies.
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
H.G. Wells’s novel, War of the Worlds, described hissing, tentacled, tripodal invaders from Mars.
Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast
The logo for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Genocide and Justice in Rwanda
A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings
The words "Equal Justice Under Law" which are inscribed on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618
Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911
150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois
Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c. 1779
The Execution of Louis XVI