A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 116

Historical photos are a way to look a little into the past and look at it from a different angle. You can always learn important lessons from the past, learn something, or simply add to your knowledge base. Let's look at several shots from different years that tell their own stories.





1. Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle on Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, cries after returning to Japan in February 1972.



2. Charles Bronson in 2001. Britain's most violent prisoner, serving 50 years in 120 institutions



3. Muscovite against the backdrop of the parliament building after the constitutional crisis, October 1993



4. Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, who worked as a hitman for the Italian-American mafia in a bar in the 1970s



5. Hot Wheels Model Car Production, 1960s



6. Archaeologists dine in the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses XI, 1923



7. Father and son take funny pictures, 1910s



8. Photo from the crash site of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes, 1972. There were 45 people on board, 33 survived the crash.



9. Chain for the anchor of the Titanic, 1909



10. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves in 1945



11. Last photo of Congressman Leo Ryan. On November 18, 1978, he was killed in Guyana by adherents of the Peoples Temple sect, who started shooting on the runway while he was trying to fly to the United States.



12. Qusay Hussein, youngest son of Saddam Hussein, fires a revolver into the air during a social event, 1980s



13. The Paris Gun was the largest weapon of the First World War. In 1918, Paris was fired upon from a distance of more than 100 km



14. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR at its last meeting on December 26, 1991. On this day they adopted a declaration on the cessation of the existence of the USSR



15. Convicted minors work in the fields. Prisons made money by renting it out to farmers for work. USA, 1903



This happened in the southern states of the United States during the Jim Crow Laws on racial segregation.

16. Figure skaters Tonya Harding, Kristi Yamaguchi and Nancy Kerrigan, 1991



17. Part of an astronaut's helmet found by a farmer in a field in Texas after the Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003



18. In 1975, the Denver Nuggets basketball team hired a witch directly to the game to ruin the game for their opponents.



This happened after the Indiana Pacers used their mascot to cast a hex on the Denver Nuggets. As a result, the Nuggets lost both games - the witch did not help them.

19. Mikhail Gorbachev looks at his watch before a televised address in which he announces his resignation as President of the USSR on December 25, 1991



20. Girls eating spaghetti on air mattresses on the island of Capri, 1939