1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.
January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.
1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.
1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.
1973. A few seconds before Chile's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.
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1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.
February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.
1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.
1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.
1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.
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The "MOST recognized photograph" from National Geographic magazine.
Her name is Sharbat Gula.
Gula's picture was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time.
Although her name was not known, her picture, titled "Afghan Girl", appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and with her piercing sea-green eyes staring directly into the camera, became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide.
The identity of the Afghan Girl remained unknown for over 15 years; Afghanistan remained largely closed to Western media until after the overthrow of the Taliban government in 2001.
A second National Geographic team found Gula in 2002. Gula,then around the age of 30, was found in a remote region of Afghanistan; she had returned to her native country from the refugee camp in 1992. The image itself was named as "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine.
The day Ghandi died, the world, and India cried. Over 1 million people attended Ghandi's funeral to honor the man who helped peacefully give Indians a country, and their dignity.
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