50 images that stopped the world

[Platypus]

50 images that stopped the world. Some are quite graphic. Purely my views, with suggestions from my sister.


Sinking of the Titanic


Man shot in Vietnam in cold blood


Challenger explosion


The fall of the Berlin Wall


Asian Boxing Day Tsunami


London Bombing 2005


The most infamous bowl in history


The Kennedy Assassination


Explosion of the Hindenburg


Soviet flag hoisted over newly-occupied Berlin


Atomic bombing of Japan


The Jonestown suicides


The moon landing


The Royal Wedding of Charlas and Diana


The Rwandan genocide


The Tiananmen protestor

(more to come)

[Platypus]

Everest conquered by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary


Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor


Maradona's 'Hand Of God' goal


Massacre at Nanking


Live Aid concerts


London blitzed


Bali bombed


Katrina wreaks havoc in New Orleans and surrounds


Paris erupts in riots


Nazis occupy Paris


Greg Louganis hit his head on the diving board


Dancing in the streets as Peace is declared 1945

[Platypus]

September 11 attacks


Great Depression affects millions


Russia revolts


Martin Luther King has a dream


Saddam Hussein captured


Eric 'the Eel' Moussambani sets new Equatorial Guinea swimming record (100m in 1:52.72)


Flanders fields' see the dead of thousands


Dewey defeats Truman


Srebrenica gravesites uncovered


Birkenau-Auschwitz horrors unveiled


Chads checked as 2000 US Presidential election in unresolved


Pol Pot's regime murders thousands and displays the victim's skulls

[Platypus]

Final ten i'll take suggestions for.

[MODU]

Not a bad list, but I recommend going back and replacing all the IMG tags with URL tags.  It makes it easier for the page to load up, especially for those that might still be using dial-up.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Elian Gonzalez:



Naplam:



Kent State:



Bush's wonderful Shock and Awe:

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Not a bad list, but I recommend going back and replacing all the IMG tags with URL tags.  It makes it easier for the page to load up, especially for those that might still be using dial-up.

People who use dial ups are like christian evangelicals or the irish: not human so no.

[Joe Republic]

Little Rock:

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

familiar w/ all but the Greg Louganis one and the most infamous bowl in history--care to explain 'em for me?

[riceowl]

it's amazing how the grand majority of them are tragedies.

[David S]

This one from the Oklahoma city bombing always tears at my heart.

[Boris]

A Black September terrorist at the 1972 Munich Olympics.



U.S. Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima, 1945,



The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, November 25, 1963.



Darth Vader reveals a shocking secret, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

it's amazing how the grand majority of them are tragedies.

People don't remember happy events.  Look at what always makes the news.

[MaC]

Won photo of the year and on the Rage Against the Machine album:


Nixon resigns


Elvis dies


first that come to mind...

[jerusalemcar5]

familiar w/ all but the Greg Louganis one and the most infamous bowl in history--care to explain 'em for me?

And Eric Mousabbi.  How did those stop the world?

[Citizen James]

Earthrise

[JohnFKennedy]

familiar w/ all but the Greg Louganis one and the most infamous bowl in history--care to explain 'em for me?

The most infamous bowl in history was poor sportsmanship by an Australian team. They were facing New Zealand and if the batter had hit a six off the last ball of the match then New Zealand would have won. In order to stop this the bowler took advantage of the then rule that you could bowl underarm if you wished to and rolled the ball along the ground to the wicket, thereby giving Australia the win.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The most infamous bowl in history was poor sportsmanship by an Australian team.

You talk as though that is at all suprising

[MODU]

familiar w/ all but the Greg Louganis one and the most infamous bowl in history--care to explain 'em for me?

Greg might have been a bit before your time.  He was an all-star US Olympic diver who attempted to do a reverse back flip off of a fixed platform in the 1988 Olympics is Korea.  He split the back of his head open, and landed flat on the water.  Stunned, he managed to remain conscious and swim out of the pool and received medical care.  Later that day, he returned and made it through qualifying to compete in the events.  He won the Gold the next day.

Outside of that, it was discovered (to the public at least) that he was HIV positive, and there was concern for all divers who used the poll after the accident.  Later still, Greg came out and announced he was gay (which is how he contracted HIV).

[riceowl]

that image of Nixon resigning isn't nearly as memorable as:

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Plus all the pictures that were taken that day and shown by Matthew Bradys Gallery in NYC.