A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 160

Funny photos, interesting events and people who made history - all this in a new selection.

1926. Berlin. People brought their dogs to be put to sleep, as they are unable to pay the increased tax on pets.

Under the supervision of Turkish army officers, Kurdish children write on the board "How happy is he who calls himself a Turk."

1953. Mannequins for testing a nuclear bomb. Las Vegas.

1995. Denomination in Poland. One new zloty instead of 10,000 old ones.

Berlin residents search for food in the ruins.

1992. Sarajevo residents prepare firewood for the winter.

Jerusalem. 1917.

1961. Adolf Eichmann's smile when his sentence is read out, accusing him of crimes against humanity.

1945. Captured Germans are forced to watch newsreels from concentration camps.

1986. Viewers see the Challenger disaster.

1940. Christmas on the London Underground.

1921. Georgian anarchists oppose the Red Army.

1914. British soldiers sleep after landing in France.

1922. Women thank representatives of the American Relief Administration. Vasilyevka village, Samara province.

1945. Mass suicide in Vienna before the arrival of the Red Army.

1900. An Indian student prepares for exams. To stay awake, he tied his hair to the wall.

1943. Soldiers of the 13th SS Mountain Division "Handjar" (1st Croatian) perform namaz. The division was recruited from Bosnian Muslim volunteers.

1916. Submarines "Bars" and "Wolf".

King George hunting in India.

Khrushchev and Castro.

1922. Girls paint luminous numbers on dials with radioactive paints (Radium Girls). Many of them will later die of cancer.

1960. The Los Angeles Police Department catches a robber who killed an elderly woman for her wallet.

1938. A kindergarten teacher, called to court as a witness, gets five days in jail for contempt of court - she came to testify in pants. Los Angeles.

1949. Women do laundry in Central Park during water shortages. New York.

1940. Germany. Schoolgirls in a racial purity class.

1945. Germany. A child tries to sell his father's Iron Cross.

1936. Motor chariot racing.

Foreskin or death. A Pakistani soldier checks whether a man (i.e. Muslim or Hindu) is circumcised during the Bangladesh War of Independence, 1971.

A picnic on the highway during the 1973 Oil Crisis.

Due to a strong headwind, the plane crashed into a truck that was parked near the runway during landing, 1976.

Spielberg during the filming of the first Indiana Jones movie, 1980.

The glasses that John Lennon was wearing on the day of his murder, 1980.

Transportation of the first Indian satellite, 1981.

A black police officer protects members of the racist KKK organization from protesters, 1983.

Moving a 7,600-ton apartment building to make a boulevard in the Romanian city of Alba Iulia, 1987

Hannah Stilley - born in 1746, picture taken in 1840. Apparently, this woman became the oldest person to be photographed. (At the time).

The world's first telephoto lens, 1900.

The collapsed ceiling in the parliament building, 1907.

A beggar runs after the carriage of the British King George V, 1920.

The seal at the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922 (the seal remained intact for 3245 years).

Fiat workers race on the roof of the company's first plant in Turin, Italy, 1923.

An opium den in Singapore, 1941.

This is what a flight simulator looked like in 1942.

Loading the first 5 MB hard drive into a PanAm aircraft, 1965.

Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet, 1958.

Poolmobile in New York, 1960

Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960.

Disney staff canteen, 1961.

The Beatles sing for 18 people at a modest club in Aldershot in December 1961. They became superstars a year and a half later.

Morning train, Japan, 1964.

Prague Spring 1968. Soviet soldier chases a guy throwing stones at a tank. 1968.

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