▲In January 1973, Maud Rabbits of Staines in Middlesex, England, receives a kiss from her husband, Ernest, after being awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for her work as a lollipop lady.

▲Anxious men at the Apollo 17 mission control center, approximately 15 minutes after its launch in December 1972.

▲The Beatles' press officer, Derek Taylor, is given a set of custom boomerangs by fan Jack Bonwell, who wanted to celebrate the band's Australian tour in July 1964.

▲Eva Perón, former political leader and wife of Argentinian President Juan Perón at the Presidential Palace, before the 141st Argentine Independence Day celebrations at the Colón Theater on May 30, 1951.

▲Former prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp assemble in honor of the people who died in concentration camps in 1945.

▲Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany, and Paul von Beneckendorff, the country's president, at the Tannenburg Memorial Parade in East Prussia in August 1933.

▲Japanese army officer Hideki Tojo gives a speech at the Korakuen stadium in Tokyo, to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the conflict between Japan and China.

▲During Christmastime in 1989, people cross the new boarder in front of the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin to visit relatives on the other side of the country.

▲East Germans prepare to cross a breach in the Berlin Wall after the former East German government suspended restrictions on travel and emigration to the West on December 25, 1989.

▲A photo of a radio soap opera being recorded at the BBC radio studio, circa 1935. This format was very popular in the 1930s.

▲A meeting of stars: British actor Charlie Chaplin, American actress Paulette Goddard, and British tennis player Fred Perry have a chat, around 1935.

▲The "Whirl of the World" ride at the Wembley Exhibition amusement park in August, 1924.

▲American actor and dancer Fred Astaire dances on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London with his sister and dance partner, Adele.

▲George Herman Ruth, also known as "Babe" Ruth, an American baseball player who played for the New York Yankees, teaches a child how to hold a club at the Yankee Stadium.

▲'Younger Set' of Baltimore members in 1925 with their best friends' faces painted on their knees.

▲Writer H.G. Wells and actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin gather at the Stoll Pictures office in London in 1921 to watch the new film, 'Kipps,' based on Wells's novel.

▲Heavyweight world champion Jack Dempsey falls out of the ring after being punched by fellow Argentinian champion Luis Angel Firpo during a fight at Polo Grounds in New York on September 14, 1923.

▲Women pose for a photograph at Chiswick Baths, London, in May of 1920.

▲Sisters Elizabeth, Helen, and Margaret Hay take a photo of movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin in September 1922.

▲British featherweight boxer Ben Callicot trains before a fight against British fighter Ernie Rice on April 11, 1921.

▲Canadian dancer Christina Dukette performs with an Egyptian-style costume in March 1923.

▲Mick Jagger looks left out of a conversation between handsome French actor Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull.

▲Salvador Dali, the Catalan painter known for his surrealist work, strolls with a somewhat exotic pet down the street in 1969.

▲Osama bin Laden, a former terrorist leader and the founder of Al-Qaeda, with his family on vacation in Sweden in 1970.

▲This picture was taken from the top of a building in New York in 1939. Hats were undoubtedly fashionable at the time!

▲British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, known as the "Master of the Suspense," plays with his grandchildren in the snow in 1960.

▲Students from Princeton University, after a snowball fight in 1893.

▲Award-winning Belgian actress and humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, in 1958.

▲In 1956, models take all the glamour of French fashion designer Christian Dior to Russia.

▲The seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen remained intact and untouched for 3,245 years. In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb, prompting speculations about the death of the pharaoh.

▲The American literary genius, Ernest Miller Hemingway, in prison after one of his parties.

▲The last picture of the Titanic at sea in 1912. The tragic story became popular after the successful 1997 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

▲Men get the first glimpse of a bottle of Coca-Cola in France in 1950. Originally, Coca-Cola was used as medicine after its invention in the late 19th century by John Pemberton.

▲People improvise a bridge made of chairs to cross the street during a flood in Paris in 1924.

▲Women protest against the law that forced them to wear the hijab after the Islamic Revolution.

▲Two men smoke on top of the RCA's 69-story building at the Rockefeller Center complex in central New York in 1932.

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