DescriptionA woman looking up at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, photographed just months after the complex was officially completed in April 1973.
LicenseWalter Schmid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via ETH Zurich Library
DescriptionCrowds in Warsaw watching the Presidential Guard Company (Kompania Przyboczna) march during its final parade before the company got disbanded in the aftermath of the May 1926 Coup, a military takeover led by Marshal Józef Piłsudski that overthrew President Stanisław Wojciechowski’s government after three days of intense fighting in Warsaw.
LicenseNarcyz Witczak-Witaczyński, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
DescriptionA huge crowd gathered outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London for the National Country Quiz, an event celebrating Britain’s rural and agricultural production held as a prelude to the National Harvest Thanksgiving Service.
DescriptionU.S. President Jimmy Carter and Liberian President William Tolbert waving from their motorcade during Carter’s visit to Monrovia, which marked the first ever visit by a sitting U.S. president to sub-Saharan Africa.
LicenseNational Archives and Records Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons