51 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You In Awe. #14 Is Just... WOW!

By | August 4, 2015

Below is a collection of some of the most fascinating rare historical photos you'll ever see. It's like going back in time to witness the most interesting moments in the history of the world.

1. A boxing match aboard the USS Oregon in 1897

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2. An airman being captured by the Vietnamese people in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967. That airman is John McCain.

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3. Photo of Samurai warriors taken between 1860 and 1880

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4. A shell-shocked reindeer looks on as bombs are dropped on Russia in 1941.

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5. Walt Disney on the opening day of Disney Studios

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6. Che Guevara enjoying a nice drink

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7. The Microsoft employees in 1978

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8. The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct), photo taken in 1933

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9. German air raid on Moscow in 1941

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10. Winston Churchill out for a relaxing swim

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11. The London sky after dogfight bombings between British and German war planes in 1940

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12. Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burnt cross from his yard in 1960. The boy's his son.

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13. Google begins.

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14. Nagasaki, Japan 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945

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15. This is the only photograph of a living Quagga (now extinct) from 1870

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16. Hitler's bunker

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17. A Japanese war plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

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18. The original Ronald McDonald mascot played by Willard Scott

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19. The very first photo taken from space in 1946

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20. British SAS back from a gruelling 3-month patrol of North Africa in 1943

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21. Disneyland employee canteen in 1961

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22. The first McDonalds ever

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23. Fidel Castro places a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

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24. George S. Patton's dog mourning his master's death.

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25. California lumberjacks cutting Redwoods

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26. Construction of the infamous Berlin Wall in 1961

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27. Bread and soup ration during the Great Depression

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28. The 1912 World Series

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29. The first photo taken right after the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

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30. Construction of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil

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31. Steamboats at the dock on the Mississippi River in 1907

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32. Leo Tolstoy telling his grandchildren a story in 1909

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33. The construction of Disneyland

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34. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the very day he received his American citizenship

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35. 14-year-old Osama bin Laden (second from the right)

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36. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884

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37. Albert Einstein's office and table photographed on the day he died

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38. A liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint.

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39. Construction of the Manhattan Bridge in 1908

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40. Construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888

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41. Dismantling of the infamous Berlin Wall in 1989

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42. Titanic leaving port in 1912.

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43. Adolf Hitler's pants, or what remains of it, after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf's Lair in 1944

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44. ENIAC, the first computer ever built

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45. Brighton Swimming Club in 1863

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46. Ferdinand Porsche (yup, that Porsche) showing Adolf Hitler a model of the Volkswagen Beetle car in 1935

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47. The unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb

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48. Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left this family photo behind on the moon in 1972.

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49. The crew of Apollo 1 simulating their water landing in 1966. Unfortunately, every one of them was killed on the launch pad in a fire.

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50. An aircraft crash on board during World War 2

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51. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding (29th president of USA), and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) having a conversation

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