Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 270, click here.
1. Soldier stands beside his M60 machine gun, which is mounted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to deter rioters from entering the building during the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination riots in Washington D.C., April 1968.
2. Little John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963.
JFK was assassinated the very next month.
3. 1858 picture of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II.
4. Firefighters battle a blaze in Montreal, 1889.
5. Simone Segouin was a French teenager who bravely fought on the front lines against the German occupiers and helped liberate the historic city of Chartres.
After the war ended, Simone was promoted to lieutenant and awarded the prestigious Croix de Guerre, 1944.
6. Nationalist Chinese troops with a captured Japanese flag., Winter Offensive, Kunlun Pass, Guangxi, 31 December 1939.
7. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary following their successful Summit of Mount Everest, 1953.
8. Blinded by gas, British soldiers of the 55th division hold onto each other at an advanced dressing station, April 1918.
9. King George V receiving the Colours of the disbanded Irish regiments, St George’s Hall, June 1922.
10. “Brig upon the water” early high-dynamic-range imaging sample, by exposing two monochromatic negative images (one for the sky, the other for the sea) taken by Gustave le Gray in 1856.
