Vertigo_Warrior@VertigoWarrior · Dec 2, 2024

Some of the Most Intriguing Moments from History. A Thread🧵 1. Saddam Hussein captured by the United States military…

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A collection of 28 intriguing historical moments spanning politics, sports, war, science, and popular culture, including iconic figures like Muhammad Ali, Princess Diana, and notable events from WWII, the Cold War, and recent decades.

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Some of the Most Intriguing Moments from History. A Thread🧵 1. Saddam Hussein captured by the United States military in December 2003
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2. Donald Trump was the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea.
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3. The sound of 2,008 people drumming together at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
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4. This was Jackie's speech after winning an award after 56 years.
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5. Atlanta Olympics 1996 featured the iconic moment when the legendary Muhammad Ali, despite suffering heavily from Parkinson's, lit the Olympic flame to begin the games
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6. Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is asked about his thoughts on Hitler
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7. An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at former President George Bush in 2008
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8. A Soviet woman who lost seven sons during World War II.
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9. 11 year-old Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson sitting in the crowd watching his father about to wrestle, 1984
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10. Funny guy makes Royal Guard laugh at Buckingham Palace
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11. Hitler delivering a speech x.com/HistoricalWWII…
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12. Princess Diana in London, 1997.
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13. In 1987, James Stanfield captured a photograph of a heart surgeon after a 23-hour-long heart transplant surgery. The photograph, which shows the surgeon looking exhausted but triumphant, also depicts his assistant sleeping in the corner of the room.
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14. You may be a good athlete, but character is something else... You will be remembered for your character! Usain Bolt is a legend!
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15. Married couple separated for 54 years during World War II. The woman never remarried, but the man did and had children and grandchildren.
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16. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a list of countries that he should not attack and this was Hitler’s response.
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17. Sunset on Mars captured by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, 2005
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18. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to finish the Boston Marathon, despite attempts by race organizers to stop her from competing.
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19. In 1994, a Russian soldier was photographed playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya.
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20. The Kiss of Life Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself & stopping his heart. A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived and lived until 2002. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968.
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21. During World War II, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin met at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, the USSR's leading resort, on February 11, 1945.
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22. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose & Hitler discussing India’s liberation from British rule.
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23. Muammar Gaddafi with one of his lady bodyguards. Cairo 1994
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24. Adolf Hitler with Helga Goebbels. Helga & her siblings were later given cyanide by her parents in Hitler's bunker in 1945
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25. North Korea's current leader Kim Jong-un with his first teacher, 1990
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26. Hillary Clinton listens intently as her husband denies having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, USA, 1998.
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27. Laika, the first dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there, 1957
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28. When Michael Jackson took off his glasses at the Grammys