USS Boise (CL-47) underway May 6, 1943

HMS Somerset alongside in Akureyri, Iceland

An Armenian mother kneels by her dead daughter in a field outside Aleppo, Syria. Sometime between 1915 and 1919, the Ottoman Empire.

Orson Welles signaling for silence inside CBS’s radio studio while directing the infamous ‘War of the Worlds’ radio show that numerous sources claimed lead to mass panic due to most listeners tuning in late and the show itself having no commercial breaks (October 30th, 1938)

Nat King Cole’s family in Los Angeles during the late 1950s after moving into a wealthy white neighborhood, they stood their ground even when racist neighbors burned a cross in their yard and allegedly even poisoned their family dog.