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The true story of Larry Walters, the Los Angeles truck driver who in 1982 tied 42 helium weather balloons to a garden chair and accidentally flew into controlled airspace above LAX. His chair is now displayed at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.
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The true story of Larry Walters, the Los Angeles truck driver who in 1982 tied 42 helium weather balloons to a garden chair and accidentally flew into controlled airspace above LAX. His chair is now displayed at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

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u/dannydutch1 — 1 hour ago
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This is 'Lawnchair' Larry Walters taking to the skies in 1982. He had attached 42 weather balloons to a garden chair and floated to 16,000 feet above LA. The FAA fined him. His chair is now in the Smithsonian.

u/dannydutch1 — 1 hour ago
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When US soldiers arrived to arrest former Japanese PM Hideki Tojo in 1945, he shot himself in the chest and bled across the floor. American medics saved his life. American dentists made his teeth. And one of those dentists secretly engraved "Remember Pearl Harbor" in Morse code on his dentures.

u/dannydutch1 — 18 hours ago
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These are the dentures worn by the former PM of Japan Hideki Tojo after his capture in 1945. He had attempted to shoot himself in the chest but was saved by US medics. The dentures were made by Dr. George Clark Foster who decided to drill 'Remember Pearl Harbour' in them before fitting.

u/dannydutch1 — 20 hours ago
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On this day in 1927 Mae West went to jail on obscenity charges. Here she is getting to grips with a Tommy Gun after being held up, robbed, and sent death threats by gangsters (1934)

u/dannydutch1 — 1 day ago
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Albert Einstein died on this day in 1955, this was how he left his desk. Photographed the day after he died. Armed with his camera and a case of whisky (to help with access) photographer, Ralph Morse captured Einstein's final journey before cremation.

u/dannydutch1 — 1 day ago
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Leonarda Cianciulli in March 1946 during an interview with the Italian psychiatrist Filippo Saporito photographed in the criminal asylum of Aversa. Cianciulli was convicted of murdering three woman and turning them into soap and teacakes, which she then gave to friends and her son.

u/dannydutch1 — 1 day ago
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On this day in 1906 the San Francisco earthquake took place. These photos capture San Franciscans watching the fires that left 80% of the city burned. Over 3,000 died. The streets looked like a war zone. The images caught in the days that followed are fascinating.

u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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Jack Nicholson and The Monkees on the set of the film Head, 1968. Photo by Henry Diltz. Nicholson co-wrote and co-produced the film, which was a box-office flop at the time but has since become a cult classic for its avant-garde satire of the band's own manufactured image.

u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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This is Jimmy Lee Gray shortly before he was executed in 1983 for the murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales. His execution was so botched that Mississippi changed it's execution method because of it.

u/dannydutch1 — 3 days ago
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A "million-dollar smile" shared between a young girl and her horse, which is displaying the flehmen response—a behaviour where a horse curls its upper lip to better detect scents, often making it look like it's laughing. 2014 by Robert Roozenbeek

u/dannydutch1 — 3 days ago
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In 2010, a small Ugandan tabloid called Rolling Stone published names and photos of alleged homosexuals alongside calls for violence. Within months it was shut down by the High Court, but not before sparking global outrage and murder.

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u/dannydutch1 — 3 days ago
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13 yr-old Eric Smith on trial for the 1993 murder of four-year-old Derrick Robie in Savona, New York. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to 9 years to life, later being released in 2022. If you feel compelled to learn more about this horrific crime, i've linked to key points in the comments.

u/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
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Grace Jones with Cab Calloway during his 85th birthday celebration in New York

u/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
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On this day in 1874, Alfred Packer returned alone from a gold prospecting trip in the Colorado mountains. After leading five men into the mountains, he later confessed during interrogation that he had killed and eaten his companions to survive.

u/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
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On this day in 1945, British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They found 60,000 prisoners in horrific condition and over 13,000 bodies. Around 19,700 people died there including Anne Frank.(More images linked in comments)

u/dannydutch1 — 5 days ago
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Houston Police Officers stand outside the house in Clear Lake City, where Andrea Yates drowned her 5 children. June 2001.

u/dannydutch1 — 6 days ago
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This 1952 image of an unknown lady is part of a large amount of fairly recently discovered LAPD crime photos from the 1930s-1950s. The rest of them are quite hardcore but I've linked to it below if you want to see them.

u/dannydutch1 — 5 days ago
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The first mugshot is a person that lived using the name Harry Crawford. The second mugshot is of a person called called Eugenia Falleni, they're both the same person. Falleni was arrested and convicted of murdering their first wife. Their second wife had no idea about Falleni's gender secret.

u/dannydutch1 — 6 days ago