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Josiah Harlan, known as the “Prince of Ghor”: An American adventurer who went to 19th-century Afghanistan to become a king. He Led the first slave revolt in Afghanistan against warlord Muhammad Murad Beg, freeing over 400 slaves. later serving as a Union Army general in the Civil War, 1838 (216×321)

![Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, 31, gives an exclusive interview to Ed Bradley for 60 Minutes from United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute. Controversy over the episode led to a ban on televised interviews of federal death row inmates (Indiana, 2000) [1080 x 1440].](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/5rpgql4f20eh1.jpeg)


![Andrés Escobar, the Colombian defender, scoring the tragic own goal against the USA during the 1994 World Cup that led to Colombia’s elimination. He was assassinated just days later in Medellín. [589×331]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/kien5ksay9ah1.jpeg)

![The Soweto Uprising was a pivotal series of student led protests that began on the morning of June 16, 1976 in the township of Soweto, South Africa. It transformed the liberation struggle and marked the beginning of the end of the apartheid regime. [1000×667]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/zdrpmbtgfm7h1.jpeg)

![On 6-24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Upstairs Lounge, a popular gay bar and home to the Metropolitan Community Church in NO French Quarter. Pictured here is the trapped Rev. Bill Larson, an openly gay pastor who led the congregation and provided a safe sanctuary to worship. [512×385]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fotsml5k289h1.jpeg)

![June 11, 1963: A 67 year old Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc died by self-immolation at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon. He took this ultimate step to protest persecution and discriminatory policies targeting Buddhists by the Catholic led government. [582×381]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/yj4hx4wiqn6h1.jpeg)

![An armada of flying boats led by Italian Air Force Minister, Gen. Italo Balbo, arrives in Shediac, New Brunswick, 1933. [1375 x 876]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/yewu9q1cr9yg1.jpeg)

![The ‘Cobra King’ crew, 1st Lt. Charles Boggess, Cpl. Milton Dickerman and Pvts. James G. Murphy, Hubert S. Smith and Harold Hafner, posing for a celebratory photo in Bastogne, Belgium shortly after the tankers led the armor and infantry column that liberated the city. Dec 1944. [900×671]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/rhffzk5m8ytg1.jpeg)
