This 1840 picture is considered to be first photo ever taken of Niagara Falls.

 

Young Pioneers in Defense, Leningrad, 1937

19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he crossed the finished line.

Engine Number One of the Salt Lake Fire Department to the rescue in 1890.

A man performs a handstand on the head of the Statue of Liberty during its restoration in 1938.

Abraham Lincoln on either his deathbed or in his coffin in 1865.

Wax figures saved from a fire at Madame Tussauds in London, 1925.

 

One of Apple's first computers, photographed in Steve Jobs' bedroom when he still lived with his parents, 1976.

 

Wilbur Wright flying the 1909 Wright Flyer over France and startling horses below.

 

Messenger dog in mid-air while leaping over a German trench (May 1917).