Some of the best (and worst) moments in history may have already come and gone, but these images will live on forever.
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#1. Firepower from the USS Iowa, 1987.
#2. Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar during an air raid practice, 1942.
#3. A man assaults a civil rights activist with the American flag, 1976.
#4. Playing golf atop a skyscraper in New York, 1932.
#5. What TIME Magazine predicted Michael Jackson would look like in 2000, 1985.
#6. A teary-eyed Neil Armstrong after his historic walk on the moon, 1969.
#7. A vintage computer advertisement.
#8. Testing bulletproof vests, 1923.
#9. KKK members pose with a Ferris wheel in Cañon City, Colorado in 1926.
#10. Installing the final segment of the St Louis Gateway Arch, 1965.
#11. Over 3,300 Vietnamese orphans were transported by airplanes to the US, 1975.
#12. A man’s nose was measured as part of the Aryan race determination tests, 1940.
#13. Bob Dylan and John Lennon meeting for the first time, 1966.
#14. Wedding rings collected from Holocaust victims, 1945.
#15. A KKK member is protected by a black policeman as protesters close in on them at a rally in Austin, Texas, 1983.
#16. A llama in Times Square, 1957.
#17. New York City in 1903.
#18. Mt St Helens before and after the 1980 eruption.
#19. ‘One Night Cough Cure’ with some very interesting ingredients, manufactured in Baltimore in 1888.
#20. A coat sale in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1936.
#21. Bullets for Hitler, 1940.
#22. Baker underwater nuclear explosion to gauge the effect of nuclear power on warships, 1946.
#23. John Lennon recording a song at Abbey Road Studios in London, 1963.
#24. Morgan Freeman in a US Air Force uniform, 1955.
#25. The Beatles pose with Muhammad Ali, 1964.
#26. Ray Charles with a young Stevie Wonder in Detroit, 1962.
#27. The US “Ghost Army” used inflatable rubber tanks and vehicles to mislead Nazis in WWII, 1945.
#28. A class on gun safety in an Indiana school, 1956.
#29. Woodstock, 1969.
#30. How German prisoners of war reacted when forced to watch footage of what happened in the concentration camps, 1945.
#31. Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger in New York, 1969.
#32. A 19-year-old Bill Clinton shakes the hands of President Kennedy in Washington, 1963.
#33. Jimi Hendrix’s last concert in Germany, September 6, 1970.
#34. Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, 1990s.
#35. A young Hitler cheering with a crowd in Munich as the start of the First World War was announced, 1914.
#36. Bob Marley enjoying a beer after a game of soccer, year unknown.
#37. And a cat kissing a baby beluga whale to wrap things up, year unknown.
