
Etiket: history
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1928 portrait of Finnish general-statesmen Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, widely considered to be Finland’s most influential modern leader & their only Field Marshall in history. He oversaw victory in the Finnish Civil war & as Defense Chief during WWII, later becoming President of Finland (4108×3461)

![Albert Stevens, The Man Later Found To Have Absorbed The Highest Known Dose Of Internal Radiation In History After Being Secretly Injected With Plutonium By His Own Doctors, 1945 [282×353]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/q590pyg9qoeh1.png)
![On July 16, 1950, Uruguay made history by winning the FIFA World Cup after defeating Brazil 2–1 at the legendary Maracanã Stadium.[2880×1980]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/joc90mo0lsch1-scaled.jpeg)



![PFC Benjamin Ogata of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was Killed in Action in Italy on July 7, 1944. He was only 19 years old. The 442nd was an elite unit composed almost entirely of 2nd generation Japanese Americans (Nisei), and remains the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. [876×1073]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/10s4qr6rx3ch1.jpeg)

![This day in history, June 1: The Farhud began in Baghdad, as pro-Nazi rioters attacked Jews during Shavuot, murdering 150-180 people, injuring hundreds, r*ping women, and looting 1,500 homes and stores, marking the beginning of the end for Iraq’s 2,500 year old Jewish community. (1941) [660×440]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/m1hrhm80mn4h1.jpeg)

![The Anglo-Zanzibar War on the set of history (1896) [534×374]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/o9vdofnv679h1.jpeg)

![An unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask hijacks Chicago television broadcasts in one of the strangest unsolved media incidents in U.S. history. Chicago, Illinois, November 22, 1987 [1244×935]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/igsh6jmsv82h1.jpeg)

![The oldest known photo in Texas history. Taken in 1849, the Alamo Mission as it appeared 13 years after the infamous battle that saw the deaths of James Bowie, Davy Crockett and William Travis. [1284 x 1092]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1q11xb2upn4h1.jpeg)

![Antiwar protestors congregate on the steps of the US Capitol on May Day, 1971. The ensuing three days of disruptive actions directly confronted the Nixon administration — and resulted in the largest civil disobedience–related detentions in US history. [960×638]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/br187pkrmkyg1.jpeg)
