DescriptionBritish Home Secretary Winston Churchill, centre left in a top hat, watching the Siege of Sidney Street from cover. Police had surrounded a house where two armed gang members, suspected of killing three officers during a botched jewellery robbery, were barricaded. The building caught ablaze after the five-hour gunfight, and the two gunmen died in the fire.
LicenseUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
DescriptionCrowds gathered in Warsaw for National Rebirth of Poland Day, a former state holiday marking the 1944 founding of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), the Soviet-backed body that laid the groundwork for communist rule in postwar Poland.
DescriptionCrowds in Stockholm reading the news of the Soviet invasion of Finland during the Winter War. The attack came just months after the outbreak of World War II, with neutral Finland fighting the Soviet Union alone before later allying with Germany in 1941.
LicenseUnknown photographer, CC BY, via Stockholm City Museum
DescriptionTourists reading a map of historic sites in Boston beneath a plaque marking Breed’s Hill at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston, Massachusetts. The 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, one of the Revolutionary War's earliest, became notable for heavy British casualties despite their eventual capture of the colonial-held hill.