This man convinced all the women that a bikini is not underwear. The bikini, created by Louis Réard, takes its name from the Bikini Atoll, as it was considered an "explosive" swimwear.
Kenyan anticolonial leader, President & "Father of the nation" Jomo Kenyatta, 1970. Kenyatta oversaw the countries transition to independence from Britain in 1964 & governed until his death in 1978
Preston Porter Jr., 15, reads a Bible for comfort as he is led by rope to be burned at the stake by a lynch mob. After being tortured for 4 days, he'd confessed to killing a white girl after the police said his father and brother would also be lynched unless he talked (Colorado, 1900)
Dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko sitting on his throne across from his wife, waiting to take the Presidential oath of office once again, 1984. Mobutu ruled over the country for 32 years from 1965 to 1997, acquiring billions of dollars in stolen wealth in the process
Roger Mills and Berta Linson. The First Interracial Marriage In Mississippi, 1970. 3 Years Earlier, The 1967 Loving V. Virginia Scotus Ruling Legalized Interracial Marriage In The US.
Gold teeth caps were made to save physicist Alvin Graves from radioactive exposure from his own teeth after he was accidentally irradiated in a nuclear chain reaction during an infamous "Tickling the Dragon's Tail" test in 1946 at Los Alamos, NM
Betty & Rosella Nelson, with a crowd of people, view the body of John Dillinger, 32, while in bathing suits at the Cook County morgue in Chicago. In the days after Dillinger was killed on July 22, 1934, massive crowds lined up outside the morgue to get a glimpse of the public enemy.
The home of civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore after being bombed by the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Day. Both were killed in the bombing. They were the first civil rights activists to be assassinated during the post-war civil rights movement (Florida, 1951)
