In 1972, as part of the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, astronaut Charles Duke embarked on a mission to the explore the moon's surface in a lunar roving vehicle. While there, he shot a picture of a photo of himself, his wife, and his two sons which was enclosed in plastic on the moon's surface, where it remains to this day.
Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and his son stand in front of The White House in the early 1980s.
This is Queen Elizabeth during her WWII service.
Here are cameramen shooting and recording the lion roar for the MGM logo.
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and staffers tour Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Sept 1962.
This is a young Osama Bin Laden with his family in Sweden during the 1970s. Bin Laden is second from the right in a green shirt and blue pants.
Here's a different view of the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square.
This is The Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris in 1884.
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is returned to the Louvre after WWII.
Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood in 1919.
These are Titanic survivors boarding the Carpathia in 1912.
In 1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State Building onto a limousine which was parked below. Photography student Robert Wiles heard the explosive crash and shot this photo soon afterward. Years later, pop artist Andy Warhol appropriated the shot for an art print.
Allied forces mock Hitler from atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery at the end of WWII.
