Dark History

2022-06-19 20:00:03 Protest outside a movie theater showing a porn movie called Deep Throat, New York, 1972.

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2022-06-19 10:00:03 Discovered by the Allies at the end of World War II, hundreds of ultra-small submarines built and under construction, Japan, 1945.

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2022-06-18 20:00:04 King of Cuba, Congo, 1947.

The Kingdom of Cuba, also known as the Bakuba Kingdom, was located in the southeast of the modern Democratic Republic of Congo, in Central Africa near the rivers: Sankuru, Lulua and Kasai.

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2022-06-18 10:00:04 Che Guevara with Bolivian soldiers before the death penalty, Bolivia, 1967.

The executioner was Mario Terán, a 26-year-old Bolivian army sergeant who personally wanted to kill Che Guevara in revenge for his friends killed in earlier battles with his unit. To make the wounds fit the story the Bolivian government planned to present to the public, CIA agent Felix Rodriguez ordered Terán to aim carefully: so that it would appear that Guevara had been killed in action.

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2022-06-17 20:00:04 Winston Churchill in Boer captivity (right), Republic of South Africa, 1899.

The Boers put a reward of 25 pounds for his capture and circulated the following announcement: "Prisoner of War escape Winston Spencer Churchill, Englishman, 25 years old, about 173 cm tall, of medium build, slightly stooped. Dull facial features, reddish-brown hair, almost invisible mustache. He speaks through his nose and cannot pronounce the letter "S." Was dressed in a brown suit. Does not speak a word of Dutch."

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2022-06-17 10:00:05 People try to find surviving items among the rubble of buildings after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, March 30, 1964.

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2022-06-16 20:00:04 A man sells goldfish in bags of water tied to tree branches, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983.

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2022-06-16 10:00:05 The Shah of Iran wipes away tears (caused by tear gas) at President Carter's speech, Washington, 1977.

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2022-06-15 20:00:05 Army Day Parade, Taiwan, 1951.

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