19 Unforgettable World’s Famous Historical Photos from 1957 – 2003

by **Admin** Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:40 pm

Actually there should be 20 photos in
this post but I accidentally deleted one of the photos, so now left 19.
The names in the brackets are the photograhers of the photos.

Racism/Segregation in the United States (Douglas Martin, USA)
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Assasination (Yasushi Nagao, Japan)
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January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

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Death (Hictor Rondsn Lovera, Venezuela)
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1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

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Vietnam War (Kyoichi Sawada, Japan)
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1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

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Vietnam War (Kyoichi Sawada, Japan)
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1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

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Vietnam War (Eddie Adams, USA)
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February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.

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Assasination of Salvador Allende, Chili (Unknown photographer)
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1973. A few seconds before Chile’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

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Accident (Stanley Forman, USA)
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1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

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Hunger in Uganda (Michael Wells, U.K.)
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1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

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Seizure of the Spain Parliament (Manuel Pirez Barriopedro, Spain)
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February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the
Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene,
and hid the films in his shoe.

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Dead bodies of the Palestianian refugees in Lebanon (Robin Moyer, USA)
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1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.

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South Korea (Anthony Suau, USA)
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1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for
his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting
the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

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Protest in China (Charlie Cole, USA)
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1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

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Hunger in Somalia (James Nachtwey, USA)
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1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

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Torture in Rwanda (James Nachtwey, USA)
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1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

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Civil War in Angola (Francesco Zizola, Italy)
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1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola .

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Dead Afghan Kid (Erik Refner, Denmark)
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2001. An Afghani refugee kid’s body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.

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Digging graves in Iran after the earthquake (Eric Grigorian, USA)
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2002. Soldiers and villagers in Iran are digging graves for the victims
of the earthquake. A kid holds his father’s pants before he is buried.

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Iraqi prisoner with his child (Jean-Marc Bouju, France)
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2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

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