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April 28, 1988: The Roof of an Aloha Airlines Jet Ripped Off in Mid-Air at 24,000 Feet, But the Plane Still Managed to Land Safely!

April 28, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIt was just another routine inter-island flight when an Aloha Airlines jet took off from Hilo, bound for […]

20 Haunting Images by Russian Photographer Showing the True Scale of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

April 26, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIgor Kostin (1936–2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl […]

24 Bizarre Vintage Photos of Steam Engines After a Boiler Explosion From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

February 12, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThere are many causes for boiler explosions such as poor water treatment causing scaling and over heating of […]

February 3, 1959 – The Day the Music Died: Photos From the Plane Crash That Killed Buddy Holly and Others in Iowa

February 3, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and “The Big Bopper” J. […]

The Last Known Photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Boarding the Space Shuttle on January 28, 1986

April 21, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis is the last known photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew boarding the space shuttle on January 28, […]

One of the Most Terrible Epidemics in Chinese History: Rare Pictures of China During Manchurian Plague (1910-1911)

September 22, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Manchurian (or Pneumonic) Plague, a fiasco in the history of public health in China, came at a […]

Survivor of 1972 Andes Plane Crash Recalled of Harrowing Experience When He Has to Eat the Human Flesh to Stay Alive

August 13, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn Oct. 13, 1972, a Uruguayan air force plane, carrying the Old Christians Club rugby team, crashed in […]

40 Incredible Color Pics That Capture Floods of Colorado in 1965

July 16, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 1965 floods of the South Platte River basin swept through the Front Range and Eastern Plains of […]

Amazing Vintage Photographs of River Thames Floods From Between the 1910s and 1950s

June 24, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe River Thames bursting its banks, rail lines being washed away, villages being turned into islands and soldiers […]

Flooding in the Thames Valley, December 1915

June 21, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteDuring a House of Commons sitting in February 1915, the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, replying to a question […]

Extraordinary Running Aground in Alaska: Remarkable Images of the ‘Princess May’ on the Rocks at Lynn, 1910

June 18, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteRemarkable images of the steamship Princess May, resting at a seemingly impossible angle, after running aground on rocks […]

70 Incredible Found Photos That Capture Street Scenes of San Francisco After the 1906 Earthquake

June 7, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 […]

“Death Leap From Blazing Hotel” – The Story Behind the Photo Taken by an Amateur Photographer That Won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize

May 21, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis is the site of the worst hotel fire in US history. In the predawn hours of December […]

700 Foot Long Airship, USS Los Angeles Goes Tail Up on August, 25, 1927

April 30, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, which was built in 1923–1924 by the Zeppelin […]

Haunting Photographs From James Dean’s Fatal Car Wreck in 1955

April 12, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAt 5:45 p.m. on 30 September 1955, film icon James Dean was killed in a car accident when […]

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