History's most important moments in photos

History's most important moments in photos - Our lives are highlighted by moments, happy or sad. Some of these moments were captured in time by photographers. Between happy, sad, accidents, peace offerings, the ending of wars and beginning of new opportunities, people are able to categorize these instances with photographs. Click on the images and check out some of the most important moments in history!

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Freedom - The construction of the Statue of Liberty which was inaugurated in October 1886.

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Annie Edison Taylor - The first person to survive descending the Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901.

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Annette Kellerman - The young lady in a bathing suit in 1907, before being arrested for indecency.

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Titanic - The ship crossing the Atlantic in 1912.

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Charles Chaplin - The actor and director in 1915, without his trademark look.

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Walter Yeo - One of the first patients to get plastic surgery and a skin transplant in 1917.

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Bullet-proof vests - Testing bullet-proof vests in 1923.

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Nazi leader - Adolf Hitler saluting military personnel in Weimar in 1930.

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Madame Tussaud's wax museum - Ruined mannequins at the Madame Tussaud museum after a fire in London in 1930.

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ku klux klan - Members of the white supremacy group in 1930.

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Lunch up high - The iconic photograph of the construction workers of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, New York having lunch in 1932.

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Jesse Owens - At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Hitler declared that whites are superior, however the athlete contradicted the theory by taking home four medals.

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Hindenburg - The Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey in 1937 was one of the most talked about incidents of the year.

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Gas Masks - A family protects itself from a possible chemical attack in London in 1938.

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Adolf Hitler - Nazi Christmas in 1938.

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Doggy protection - Three dogs protect themselves against a possible chemical attack in London in 1939.

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The flag - The battle between the US and Japan ended with US soldiers mounting a flag in Iwo Jima.

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The kiss - The photo immortalized in “Life” magazine happened after the end of the war with Japan was declared on August 14, 1945.

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Auschwitz - Children who survived the concentration camps in Auschwitz in 1945.

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Marilyn Monroe - The American actress in the film 'The Seven Year Itch' in 1954.

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Prejudice - Martin Luther King with his son, removing a burning cross from his garden in 1960.

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Berlin wall - The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy - The assassination of JFK in November 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

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Hate - The hotel owner threw acid on black individuals who were swimming in the pool in 1964

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Black Panthers - The group was founded in October 1966, and promised to patrol black neighborhoods to protect their inhabitants from police brutality in the US.

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Che Guevara - The revolutionary before his death on October 9, 1967 in La Higuera, in Bolivia.

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Gay Pride - The Stonewall Rebellion was a series of demonstrations by the LGBT against a police intervention in a gay bar in New York in 1969.

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The Beatles - The cover of the Beatles, Abbey Road released in 1969.

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Woodstock - The music festival began in 1969 on the 600 acre farm belonging to Max Yasgur in Bethel, where David Brown and Carlos Santana performed.

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Man on the moon - Apollo 11 reached the moon on July 20 1969, by Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins.

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Vietnam - Two marines help refugee children in Da Nang in 1970.

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Brassiere burning - The 1970s was a time for demonstrations for women's rights and freedom.

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Chernobyl - The nuclear disaster in Chernobil occurred on April 26 1986.

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Heart transplant - A surgeon and his assistant resting after a 23 hour heart transplant operation in 1987.

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Love representations - Two tombs in the Netherlands between a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband in 1988.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall - The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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Chinese Rebel - During the Beijing protests in June 1989, a man stands in front of Type 59 tanks forcing them to stop.

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Capuchin Vulture - In March 1993 the photographer Kevin Carter captured the moment a Capuchin Vulture approached a malnourished child in South Sudan.

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Russian Soldier - A Russian soldier plays an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994.

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Ayrton Senna - F1 pilot on fire in Italy in 1994.

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Lady Diana - The Princess of Wales died in a car accident in France alongside Dodi Al-Fayed in 1997.

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September 11 - The attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.

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Terrorism in Spain - The Madrid train attack in 2004.

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Indonesia - The 2004 tsunami destroyed the Sumatra coast.

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Gay Parade - The 2004 Gay Parade in São Paulo, Brazil, was attended by over 3 million people.

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Australian fire - A fireman gives a koala a drink of water after the forest fire in Victoria in 2009.

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Michael Jackson's funeral - The King of Pop's death stopped the world in July 2009.

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Diego Frazão Torquato - In 2009, the young Brazilian cried at the funeral of his music professor Evandro João. The teacher was the one who helped lift Diego out of poverty through his music.

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Best friend - A dog stays by his owners grave for days after he died in landslides in Rio de Janeiro, in 2011.

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Fukushima I - The nuclear disaster in Fukushima Daiichi occurred in March 2011.

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Pope Benedict XVI - Fidel Castro - The Pope and the Cuban president met on 2012.

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Boston - The marathon attack shocked the world in May 2013.

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Pope Frances - Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope in February 2013.

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Selfie - Ellen Degeneres in a selfie with several stars at the Oscars in 2014.

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Ebola - The Ebola epidemic spread through Africa in 2014.

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Tunisia - The attack occurred at a beach in Sousse in June 2015.

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Aylan Kurdi - The migration crisis in Europe was immortalized in this tragic photograph in September 2015.

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Flowers against terror - Peace offerings after the Paris attach in 2015.

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Chapecoense - The plane crash that shocked the world in November 2016.

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Sun - Nasa captured sunset on Mars.

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