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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

Feeky Magee

Iconic pictures are more effective then any story. Sometimes you see photographs that just take your breath away. The following photos; some famous, some infamous, did exactly that to me on first viewing. They will live on, as a permanent reminder of the events which caused them.

Tienemen Square Protest:

9/11:

Mai Lai Massacre:

Soviet Flag Over Reichstag:

Vietnam Shooting:

Afghan Girl:

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Saddam Hussein Captured:

Hindenberg:

Ali:

Rosa Parks:

Fake Bigfoot:

Marilyn Monroe:

Earthrise:

Feel free to add your own!

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Standard Toaster

^^^
Ah for ƒucks sake

Midnight_EG

Dude no

Otis Driftwood

OutlawPete wrote: »

Caught in the oil ..

That just pissed on my flower bed.

Cookie33

This is a great thread.. amazing photos but surely there has to be nice and happy moments that shook the world no?

I got to the 8th page and i'm very depressed.

:(

that ^^ last photo of the bird in the oil

Morlar

There are lots of non depressing ones too, the moonwalk or other nasa ones being the most obvious.

bijapos

Happier times:
Germany win in 1954

Brazil 58

England 66

Brazil 70

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Germany 74

Argentina 78

Italy 82

bijapos

Argentina 86

Germany 90

Brazil 94

France 98

Brazil 02

Italy 06

2010

Busi_Girl08

Shouldn't that be 2010?

revz

Jeremiah Duggan's body on the Berliner Straße

Not sure if this "shook the world" because i didn't hear about it until seeing a really, really good documentary on channel 4 a while back, but it should of if not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeremiah_Duggan
contains the story, some strange goings on in this 'LaRouche movement'.
His mother is still to this day trying to get the case opened, as the documentary showed German law is different to UK law (she lives in the UK); If I remember correctly it's because if a case is ruled as suicide in Germany and no other party is classed as being 'directly involved' the case is shut and not looked at. If in the UK it would be opened and the organisation may be seen as Inciting terror (I think that was the term) and could be charged.
I found it pretty fascinating anyway, such a pity on all counts

Blisterman

Strange how there's dozens of photos of humans dying in unfortunate and tragic circumstances here, but pictures of a few birds dying gets a much more emotive response.

fred funk }{

Blisterman wrote: »

Strange how there's dozens of photos of humans dying in unfortunate and tragic circumstances here, but pictures of a few birds dying gets a much more emotive response.

Ye I noticed that too. Not sure what it means TBH.

[Deleted User]

This pic certainly changed the world

Hogzy

^^^ Explanation?

Donny5

Hogzy wrote: »

^^^ Explanation?

That's a screenshot of the first HTML browser showing the first website, Tim Berners-Lee's CERN website.

Standard Toaster

Trivia time

^^^ Ran on a NeXT Computer, a mighty fine machine for it's time. (Doom was written on them too)
I'd love to own one.

Apple's Steve Jobs founded NeXT too btw

Clanket

An absolute tragedy. It's scary just how quick it took hold. God bless everyone that lost their lives.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_stadium_fire

The emotion in John Motson's voice sums it up.

Kasabian

Everytime I want to go on an emotional rollercoaster I come back to this thread. It is without doubt the best thread that I have ever seen on any forum. I have learned so much from it .

Thank you all that have contributed.

CorkBoyLike

fab thread :0) ta all

Hazys

The tragic death of Princess Diana

Hazys

An end of an era

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Babe Ruth's final public apperance waving goodbye to the Yankee fans, on the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium (the House that Ruth built) and having his no3 jersey retired. Ruth died 2 months later.

I'm moved each time I see it because it has great feeling--a man returning to the scene of his greatest successes, saying goodbye for the final time. The way triumph and sadness, pride and humility are one in this photograph give it a meaning that goes far beyond the story it tells as a newspaper illustration.

http://www.mikepalmer.info/Nat-Fein-Babe-Ruth's-Farewell.html

LimerickCity

For anyone interested in this sort of thing there is an excellent book (which i have since the turn of the century). It contains thousands of pictures.

Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope, 1899-1999

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_424575959_294834_klaus-lehnartz.jpg
East German soldier Conrad Schumann jumping over the Berlin Wall. Leibing’s photograph of the 19-year-old East German border guard throwing away his rifle as he hurled over barbed wire on his way into West Berlin was taken on August 15, 1961, two days after East Germany sealed off its border with the wall.

Khmer Rouge

http://losvanguardistas.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/khmer-rouge1.jpg

Allen Lee Davis before and after execution,the judge allowed these pictures to be published after banning the use of the electric chair in Florida.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Allen_Lee_Davis.jpg/180px-Allen_Lee_Davis.jpg
http://www.counterpunch.org/davis3.jpg
http://www.oranous.com/florida/AllenLeeDavis/95973c.jpg
http://www.oranous.com/florida/AllenLeeDavis/95973b.jpg

BaZmO*

'kin hell

Armin_Tamzarian

Christ LimerickCity, I think you should put a warning before them photos.
They're pretty fcuked up.

Big Nasty

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Christ LimerickCity, I think you should put a warning before them photos.
They're pretty fcuked up.

Fook him - he desreved it!

As for the Khmer Rouge pic - Asian people look so nice and innocent as a race until you see pics like that!

storm2811

Those electric chair photos shocked me more than anything else on here!

I know these people have done horrible things,but these pictures just made me think about how brutal and bizzare the electric chair is..:/

Eoin

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Christ LimerickCity, I think you should put a warning before them photos.
They're pretty fcuked up.

There's a warning in the thread title to be fair.

raindog.promo

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Asian people look so nice and innocent as a race until you see pics like that!

As opposed to every other race that never done nothing to nobody.

gerawayouddadat.

LimerickCity

eoin wrote: »

There's a warning in the thread title to be fair.

Exactly

LimerickCity

Who could forget this.

Cookie33

LimerickCity wrote: »

Who could forget this.

It's been posted I think but I don't really know the signifiance (maybe too young)
Do you have a website for further information please?