15 Retro Photos That Show Interesting Events (16 photos)

Photographs from the past are interesting and informative to look at. After all, they allow you to better understand the events and exciting moments of the lives of previous generations. In this post, you will take a virtual journey into the past.





1. A woman named Corrie Ten Boom reveals the secret hideout her family built in their attic bedroom to shelter Jews and resistance fighters in Haarlem, Holland, during World War II



2. Dr. Julius Neubronner invented the miniature a camera that could be attached to a carrier pigeon and take aerial photos of the city





3. In 1990, Muhammad Ali flew to Iraq to help free 15 American hostages



Without permission from the U.S. government, the heavyweight champion negotiated directly with Saddam Hussein and convinced him bring the Americans home safely.

4. Maurice Tillet, who supposedly inspired the director to create the character of Shrek, was a French professional wrestler known as the “French Angel”



He achieved success in the 1940s, becoming the world heavyweight champion.

5. Yuri Gagarin on the beach with his wife Valentina and daughter Elena, 1960



6. A newborn suffering from polio in a tiny ventilator, 1940



7. A chimney sweep and his hard-working assistant in 1877 year



8. Men waiting in line for a job during the Great Depression, America, 1930s



9. The last major eruption of Vesuvius, March 1944, Italy



10. Terrified actress Sophia Loren hides in her car as fans surround her and one of them smashes the windshield. All this happened at the Rome-San Remo car rally on April 9, 1956



11. The "no bra" feminist movement of the seventies



12. In the forties, child seats were dangerous



13. Leon Trotsky with his wife and Frida Kahlo, Mexico 1937



14. Annie Jones, the bearded girl who worked in the circus all her life. She was “sold” by her mother at the age of 3, and died in 1902



15. View of Hiroshima in March 1946