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On May 10th 1973 a man entered a bank in Kenora Ont. armed with a rifle and a ‘dead man’s switch’ connected to a bomb in his mouth. He was shot leaving the bank, activating the switch, detonating the bomb. His identity remains unknown.

15-year-old African American student Dorothy Counts starts the school year at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid protests, screams, and insults from White people who were against school integration, on September 4, 1957 .

‘Basement with supplies’ — USSR, 1973s.

The inside of a cell where an inmate was killed during the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. During the riot, inmates, who’d obtained blowtorches, went to the protective custody unit, where they began using them, first on the doors, then on inmates, who were seen as ‘snitches’, 1980 .

Mom (Estelle) at 16, high school year book photo, 1951, Manhattan, NY

A soldier from the 1st Polish Armoured Division letting a Dutch girl ride on his BSA M20 motorcycle during the liberation of Breda, The Netherlands. October 1944

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