32 Rare Moments Based on Facts From the History

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00:00 1.

00:19 First Atomic Bomb Ever This was the first nuclear bomb.

00:24 The nuclear test was codenamed Trinity, but the atomic device was nicknamed the Gadget.

00:30 2.

00:31 Rare Footage of Bombing of Kobe in Japan The bombing of Kobe in World War II on March

00:36 16 and 17, 1945 was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States

00:43 of America against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan Home

00:48 Islands Campaign in the closing stages of World War II.

00:53 3.

00:54 Bombing of Nagasaki before and after the nuclear destruction

00:56 During World War II, on August 9, 1945, a plutonium bomb was detonated over the city

01:03 of Nagasaki, which destroyed the whole neocality.

01:06 More than 70,000 people were killed.

01:09 4.

01:11 Historical Tube Bullets The bullets shown in the picture were found

01:14 after the Battle of Gallipoli, which was fought between 1915 and 1916 in World War I.

01:21 5.

01:22 Americans Testing a Hydrogen Bomb This nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll program

01:27 was a series of 23 nuclear bombs detonated by the United States of America between 1946

01:33 to 1958.

01:35 6.

01:36 Space Chimp Lived After the Journey Ham "The Chimp" also known as Ham "The

01:41 Astrochimp" was the first hominid to take space flight.

01:45 He was named after the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center in New Mexico.

01:49 He was launched from Cape Canaveral on 31 January 1961 and returned to Earth unharmed

01:56 except for a bruised nose.

01:58 7.

01:59 A Live Televised Assassination Enajiro Asanuma was a Japanese politician

02:05 known for his controversial advocacy for socialism in post-war Japan and his support for the

02:10 Chinese Communist Party.

02:12 During a televised debate on October 12, 1960, Asanuma was attacked and killed with a sword

02:17 by a 17-year-old.

02:20 The assassin, Otoya Yamaguchi, committed suicide a few weeks later.

02:25 8.

02:26 The Last Public Execution in America The hanging of Rene Biddy on August 14, 1936.

02:32 It was the last public execution in the United States.

02:35 The event was an item of national interest because Biddy was to be hanged by Florence

02:40 Thompson, the sheriff of Davies country.

02:43 Arthur L. Harsh, a former policeman from Lousville, offered to pull the trigger for her and she

02:49 accepted.

02:50 9.

02:51 Lying Down on the Job A soldier fainted during a 1970 birthday procession

02:57 for Queen Elizabeth.

02:58 It happened at the worst possible time as she was passing by.

03:02 Standing stock still in the full heat of a sunny day in a heavy uniform is quite a challenge.

03:09 10.

03:10 Rare Picture of Control Room of German Submarine UB-110

03:15 There have been several movies about German submarines and how they look back in the day,

03:20 but here is an actual picture from 1918.

03:23 11.

03:25 Scientists Studying the Effects of Weightlessness at a Height of 25,000 Feet

03:32 As scientists were contemplating the medical specifics of weightlessness in space in 1958,

03:39 they used a kitten as a stand-in for human testing.

03:43 12.

03:45 The Very First Image of Mathieu Pichot In 1911, Yale University professor and explorer

03:53 Hiram Bingham ventured into the mountainous jungles of central Peru in search of an insect

03:58 in Kansas City.

04:01 13.

04:03 Very Large Buck This is an undoctored, unexplained photo of

04:09 a large buck.

04:12 14.

04:14 Alcohol Being Poured Out of a Window During the Prohibition

04:19 If you have ever seen Boardwalk Empire, then you know the extent in which bootleggers will

04:26 go to keep their business thriving.

04:30 15.

04:33 Liverpool School Children Wearing a Gas Mask During the War

04:38 In 1941, the bombings of London created a scary environment for families and children.

04:45 16.

04:48 British Sailor Removing the Leg Irons from a Slave

04:51 During the 19th century, leg irons were used to restrain the enslaved.

04:59 17.

05:01 German Soldiers Practiced Their Marksmanship at the Karst-Schöter Racecourse in Berlin

05:06 in 1935.

05:09 18.

05:11 Big Stack of Booze Barrels A massive stack of liquor barrels collected

05:16 by the authorities in 1924 and ready to be set ablaze.

05:21 19.

05:23 A Little Nuclear Family A Nevada mother and her son watched a nuclear

05:28 test exploration from the window of their home in 1953.

05:33 20.

05:35 Gandhi's Letter to Hitler A real letter sent from Gandhi to Hitler

05:40 in July of 1939.

05:46 21.

05:52 A Post-Liberation Meeting When the 3rd Armored Division of the U.S.

05:57 Army liberated Buchenwald, this Russian inmate points an identifying and excusing finger

06:03 at an I.C.

06:04 Guard who was especially cruel towards the prisoners.

06:09 22.

06:11 Testing of a Football Helmet In past, football companies tried this way

06:15 of testing the helmets.

06:16 There is not much information about this 1912 photo, including the most important detail

06:22 of the day, did it work or not.

06:27 23.

06:28 A Tagged-Up Fighter Jet The Navy had a funny tradition.

06:32 Every time a plane would land on the wrong carrier, it would be covered with the graffiti

06:38 before being returned.

06:41 24.

06:43 Babies Wash Sail This postcard from 1940 was believed by some

06:48 parts of the internet to be a legitimate photo of unwanted Italian babies being sold.

06:53 It was actually a humorous postcard, resigned and marketed in France.

06:59 25.

07:00 Man in Black Hero Tommy Lee Jones in High School

07:05 This throwback photo shows actor Tommy Lee Jones in his high school football uniform.

07:11 He is seen here at Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas.

07:16 He and Laura Bush went to the same school.

07:21 26.

07:22 An Illustration of the British Class System This photograph has been fairly famous since

07:27 it was originally published in the News Chronicle in 1937.

07:32 With the headline "Every Picture Tells a Story", it shows two upper-class British

07:37 youths standing with an air of impetuousness next to a group of three boys who had ditched

07:43 school for the day.

07:45 27.

07:46 Float Like a Butterfly, Sing Like a Bee Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer in history.

07:54 Before he was Muhammad, he was Cassius Clay.

07:57 This photo shows him training and posing underwater at the Sir John Hotel, Miami in 1961.

08:05 28.

08:06 A Maestro of Disguise These photos were doctored up to give OSS

08:12 agents an idea of what Hitler would look like if he went into hiding in disguise.

08:17 The top left photo is the authentic one if you, for some reason, didn't already know

08:22 that.

08:23 The photos were made by a makeup artist from New York named Addison.

08:29 29.

08:30 Soviet Space Dog This is Laika, the first animal ever to be

08:35 sent up into orbit.

08:37 Nobody expected her to survive the trip and unfortunately she did not.

08:42 There is now a monument erected to her in Moscow of a dog standing on a rocket.

08:49 30.

08:50 Woman Struck by a Meteorite in Rio This woman, an Alabama resident in one of

08:55 the only people, may be the only person to be struck by a meteorite.

09:00 The eight-and-a-half-pound chunk of space rock crashed through the roof of her home,

09:05 hit her radial and injured her side and hand.

09:09 31.

09:11 The First Look of Stockholm Telephone Tower The tower was built in the Swedish capital

09:16 of Stockholm to connect over 5,000 telephone wires in 1887.

09:21 It was shortly before telephone companies started burying their wires.

09:25 Good thing since the city's residents hated it.

09:28 The tower burned down in 1953.

09:31 32.

09:33 Duck Season in Pest This is not a prop but a real gun that used

09:38 to be commonly used in commercial waterfowl hunting.

09:41 They were called "punt guns" because they were used in a kind of boat called a punt.

09:47 The guns fired almost a pound of shot and could kill 50 birds in one shot.

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