15 historic photos that once shook the world

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From the date of the first captured image that has been almost 200 years. During that time, millions of images have been made, but only ten of them went down in history forever.

1. Hunger

Photo taken by Mike Wells in 1980 in the region of Karamoja (Uganda), was the personification of hunger in Africa. Missionary withered hand holding hungry African boy.

2. Afghan girl

The legendary portrait of 12-year-old Afghan girl photographer Steve McCurry. The village was destroyed by the girl, and her whole family was killed. She stayed two weeks in the mountains before you got to the refugee camp, where this photo was also made.

3. mushroom cloud

Mushroom cloud from the explosion of the atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki August 9, 1945. The photo was taken from an American B-29 bomber. The explosion of 21 kilotons of power completely wiped out the Japanese city.

4. Twin Towers

The most famous picture of the largest terrorist attack in US history. According Novate.ru, in a series of planned terrorist attacks, suicides group Al Qaeda September 11, 2001 killed 2977 people, and the World Trade Center was destroyed.

5. White and color

Very revealing photograph showing racial inequality in the United States in the XX century. The photograph was taken in 1950 in one of Texas Cafe.

6. Volcano in Colombia

This famous photograph was taken in 1985 during a severe volcanic eruption, which killed thousands of people. The photograph captures one of the victims of the disaster - the Colombian girl, whose hometown was completely destroyed. Three long days, she fought for her life, while remaining sandwiched concrete slabs. Unfortunately, the girl could not survive.

7. A Buddhist monk

This image went down in history as the personification of Buddhist monks struggle with repression by the government of South Vietnam. The photograph in 1963 monk Quang Dak protest publicly set himself on fire in the square. the dead monk's body was cremated, and his heart is recognized shrine.

8. The germ of the child

Today, every mother can easily find out the sex of their child, but in 1965 Photo human embryo created a furor. People were able to see the baby for the first time before his birth.

9. The prisoner and the officer

This image shows the execution of a prisoner by a police officer during the Vietnam War. The frame was captured a second before the shot. For this photo, author won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969.

10. Snowman

One of the first and most well-known images of Bigfoot. In fact, the picture - a frame from the documentary Patterson-Gimlin 1967 During shooting tape, researchers have seen in the woods a huge humanoid monkey, who confidently and quickly moved on two legs. Later this survey was recognized as a falsification, but for many years it struck the minds of scientists and ordinary citizens.

11. Banner of victory

Photography, which became a symbol of victory over Nazi Germany. The images captured by May 1, 1945, a soldier elevate the flag of the Soviet Union over Berlin.

12. Crying German soldier

One of the most famous pictures of World War II. Crying 15-year-old German antiaircraft Hans Georg Henke, taken prisoner by the US Army in the German city Rehtenbak.

13. The boy on the bus

The little boy looks out the window of a bus filled with refugees who have decided to take out from the epicenter of the events of the war in Grozny. The picture was taken in 1995

14. children miners

Historical photo of the miners' children in one of the coal mines of the United States, 1910 The picture caused a public outcry. Shortly after that child labor in the Americas was canceled.

15. Father and son

Picture taken in 2003 in one of the camps POW. Loving father no matter what tries to comfort her son.

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