DescriptionPope Pius XII addressing a crowd outside the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, on Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, in Rome, shortly after an Allied air raid on the city during World War II.
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DescriptionIndonesian United Development Party supporters riding through the streets of Tangerang, west of Jakarta, during the final day of campaigning for Indonesia’s parliamentary elections. The campaign had been marked by widespread political violence and unrest as opposition to President Suharto’s long-running government intensified.
DescriptionFormer Member of Parliament Denis Pritt addressing thousands of protesters in Trafalgar Square, London, demonstrating against Britain’s refusal to recognize Seretse Khama as chief of the Bamangwato people in Bechuanaland, now Botswana, and allow him to return home after his marriage to a white British woman.
DescriptionTraders gathered outside the former U.S. Sub-Treasury building, now Federal Hall National Memorial, on Wall Street in New York City to trade in a panic during 'Black Thursday,' the first day of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which ushered in the wider economic collapse of the Great Depression.
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