Some Vintage Photos
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Unidentified crash investigators inspect the nose section of the crashed Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 airliner in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland, December 23, 1988. U.S. and Scottish authorities said Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022 that the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is in U.S. custody. (Photo by Dave Caulkin/AP Photo/File)
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In this photo provided by Ted Anthony, a woman sells soda pop and popsicles at a roadside stand near Xi'an in central China's Shaanxi province in February 1980. For one 11-year-old American boy, Richard Nixon's trip to China changed almost everything. In 1979, Ted Anthony was part of the earliest wave of American families to come to Beijing after relations were established thanks to the 1972 meeting between Nixon and Mao Zedong. Now an Associated Press journalist, he says his presence in China at a pivotal moment in its history resonates with him today. (Photo by Ted Anthony via AP Photo)
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Police take cover as Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters flee as they are fired upon by unidentified gunmen, March 28, 1994, in Johannesburg. South Africa is engrossed in debate over the legacy of apartheid's last president, F.W. de Klerk, who died at 85 and is to be buried Sunday, Nov 21, 2021. Some people want to remember de Klerk as the liberator of Nelson Mandela, but others say he was responsible for racist murders. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo/File)
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A township resident confronts a policeman shortly before police opened fire on a crowd and killed at least one and injured several in Boipatong Saturday, June 20, 1992. The shootings followed an aborted visit by South African President F.W. de Klerk to the scene of Wednesday's massacre that left 39 people dead. South Africa is engrossed in debate over the legacy of apartheid's last president, de Klerk, who died last week at 85. (Photo by Greg Marinovich/AP Photo/File)
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Police fire at fleeing protesters June 20, 1992, in Boipatong, South Africa. South Africa is engrossed in debate over the legacy of apartheid's last president, de Klerk, who died at 85 and is to be buried Sunday, Nov 21, 2021. Some people want to remember de Klerk as the liberator of Nelson Mandela, but others say he was responsible for racist murders. (Photo by Greg Marinovich/AP Photo/File)
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Soviet soldiers training with dummy RKG-3 grenades against a tank near today’s St. Petersburg, in Leningrad Region, USSR .on January 20, 1978. (Photo by Oleg Porokhovnikov/TASS)
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A man tastes the sour cream, the only remaining dairy product available, at a state-owned store in Moscow, Monday, December 24, 1991. By the fall of 1991, however, deepening economic woes and secessionist bids by Soviet republics had made the collapse all but inevitable. The failed August 1991 coup by the Communist old guard was a major catalyst, dramatically eroding Gorbachev’s authority and encouraging more republics to seek independence. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo/File)
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An Indian soldier takes cover as the Taj Mahal hotel burns during a gun battle between Indian military and militants inside the hotel in Mumbai, India, November 29, 2008. The three days of terror in Mumbai carried out by the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba left 166 people dead. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo/File)
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Iranian women take part during the celebrations to mark the 2,500 anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire, young people in costume participate in parade for visiting dignitaries at Persepolis Iran, October 13, 1971. Iran's Islamic Republic requires women to cover up in public. But many Iranian women have long played a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities as a younger generation wears their veils more loosely or skirts requirements for conservative dress. (Photo by Horst Faas/AP Photo/File)
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Britain's Princess Diana wearing a white dress, races ahead during the mother's race, held during a sports day for Wetherby school, where her son Prince William is a pupil on Tuesday, June 28, 1989. Above all, there was shock. That’s the word people use over and over again when they remember Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago this week. The woman the world watched grow from a shy teenage nursery school teacher into a glamorous celebrity who comforted AIDS patients and campaigned for landmine removal couldn’t be dead at the age of 36, could she? (Photo by AP Photo, File)
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General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev (R) meets residents during an official visit in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union on January 30, 1991. (Photo by Alexander Chumichev; Eduard Pesov/TASS)
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Argentina's Diego Maradona scores 1st goal with his Hand of God, past England goalkeeper Peter Shilton during Football World Cup Quarter Final in Mexico on 22nd June, 1986. (Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Images)
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A US soldier from 8ieme Regiment, riding atop a 9th Division armored personnsl carrier, shelters beneath a pink umbrella at Saigon, during the mini-Tet offensive. Vietnam, 1968. (Photo by Tim Page/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian workers from the Kiev City Council dismantle and remove the illuminated hammer and sickle – symbols of the Soviet Union – that decorated the main street in downtown Kiev, July 31, 1991. The symbols are not considered representative of the independent Ukrainian Republic and will be replaced by flags for a visit by U.S. President George H. W. Bush. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo/File)
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Astronauts Harrison Schmitt (left) and Eugene Andrew Cernan practice taking geological samples at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for NASA's scheduled Apollo 17 lunar landing mission, on August 28, 1972. Schmitt is the Lunar Module Pilot and Cernan is the mission's Commander. They are training for their period of EVA (extravehicular activity) on the Moon. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)