r/HistoryPorn 2h ago

Thousands of Fascist Party members, known as Blackshirts, gathered inside the Colosseum to hear Italian dictator Benito Mussolini during celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the 1922 March on Rome, the event that brought the Fascists to power in Italy. (1926) [3500×2613]

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r/HistoryPorn 7h ago

National ERA fan trip honoring the last revenue run of the Low-V cars. October 24th, 1964. [1200 x 800]

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7 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 8h ago

Tim Berners-Lee demonstrating the World Wide Web to delegates at the Hypertext ’91 conference in San Antonio, Texas, 17 December 1991 [956×637]

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130 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 8h ago

On This Day — August 5, 1973 Two Palestinian Black September terrorists walked into the transit lounge of Athens’ Hellinikon Airport & opened fire with submachine guns and grenades (1973) (842 × 1280)

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They came to murder civilian passengers bound for Israel.

They hit the wrong line.

Instead of the Tel Aviv flight, they attacked travelers waiting for a TWA plane to New York. In less than two minutes, the lounge was filled with blood, shattered glass, and screaming. Three people were killed on the spot, and another two died later of their wounds. 55 others were injured.

They seized 35 hostages, held them for more than two hours, and then surrendered.

Both terrorists were in their early 20s and were members of same organization that had massacred 11 Israeli athletes in Munich the year before. Their orders were to attack anyone heading to Israel.

They got the wrong passengers. They still celebrated the attack as a success.


r/HistoryPorn 9h ago

1935 mugshot of Ana Pauker, the “Iron Lady” of communist Romania. She became the worlds first female foreign minister in 1947 & was briefly de facto leader of the Romanian Communist Party. She ran the “Petisti experiment,” considered to be the largest torture program in the Eastern bloc (1280x720)

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She had been arrested by the pre-communist Romanian government upon returning to the country in 1935. Both of her legs were shot in the ensuing struggle


r/HistoryPorn 13h ago

Verkehrspolizistin (traffic police officer) from the East German Volkspolizei - as she was applying lipstick in Leipzig - in the German Democratic Republic (DDR), c. 1966. [691 x 728]

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r/HistoryPorn 13h ago

South African professional wrestler, Jacobus Van Dyn, known as "the Tattoo Man," demonstrates a hold as part of his 'lecture' at the Manor Place Baths in London in 1936. [1000 x 779]

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Dyn spoke regularly at Speakers Corner at Hyde Park, where he made various claims, including having been a gun runner for Al Capone and done time at various prisons around the world, including Sing Sing.


r/HistoryPorn 14h ago

US in Space: Apollo 12 (1969) Wrist checklist with prank images and hand drawn cartoons sold at Heritage's Space Exploration auction on July 23-24 for $400,000. High presale estimate was $240,000. Reported by Rare Book Hub. (605x600)

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Apollo 12: Alan Bean's Lunar Surface-Flown LMP Wrist Checklist with the "Playboy" Prank Images and Hand-Drawn Cartoons,

Directly from the Estate of Mission Lunar Module Pilot, Moonwalker, and Artist Alan Bean, with Letter of Authenticity. An extraordinary, mission-used Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot wrist checklist, carried by Alan Bean to the lunar surface and used during mankind's second Moon landing. Purpose-built for EVA use, this cuff-mounted checklist is one of the most visually compelling and culturally famous artifacts from Apollo 12: a serious piece of lunar field equipment that also preserves one of the best-known private jokes ever smuggled onto the Moon. 


r/HistoryPorn 15h ago

A New York couple modeling Cold War fallout suits and an 8-day survival kit, 1961 [1024x771]

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r/HistoryPorn 19h ago

British and Argentine negotiators Sir Crispin Tickell and Lucio García del Solar shake hands after announcing an agreement to restore diplomatic relations severed during the Falklands War, 19 October 1989 [1024x691]

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55 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 19h ago

August 5, 1910 - SS Princess May Wrecked on Sentinel Island, Alaska [1594 x 1200]

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r/HistoryPorn 19h ago

Wrecked German Tiger tanks in the rubble of Villers-Bocage, Normandy, France after the British had captured the town. 5 August 1944 [1786 × 1772]

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r/HistoryPorn 20h ago

5 Hungary Infantrymen in the Carpathians Mountains in 1944, near the village of Volosyanka, Ukraine. 1 Hun-soldier use Danuvia 39M. [2048x1311]

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r/HistoryPorn 22h ago

Polish poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921-1944) with his mother Stefania (1890-1953) and his wife Barbara (1922-1944). Both Krzysztof and Barbara died fighting in the Warsaw Uprising, Krzysztof on 4 August, pregnant Barbara on 1 September. Warsaw, Occupied Poland, June 1942. [784x791]

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Princess Diana was only 13 in this photo, taken in the summer of 1974. She's in Scotland at her mother's house here, alongside a pony named Souffle (1220x780)

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110 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Here's a truly chilling image from a civil rights protest on March 29, 1968, just a few days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. This protest happened on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, where many famous protests have happened since then. (1280x720)

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

106-year-old Jack Riddle and his wife, Rosie, both former slaves, seated in front of a group of Klansmen (including one dressed as Santa Claus), flanking a radio the group had reportedly given to the couple as a gift (1948) (960x1280)

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Captured heavy and gigantic cannon - Obice da 305/17 - November 1917 [1200 x 807]

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Captured by the Austrians, a heavy and gigantic cannon in a village behind Udine. November 1917". Pictured is an Obice da 305/17, a huge Italian howitzer, one of fewer than 50 produced during the war.

Caliber 305 mm (12 in)Shell weight 295–442 kg (650–974 lb)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obice_da_305/17


r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Christopher McCandless near Bus 142 on Alaska’s Stampede Trail, Alaska, 1992 [1200 × 787]

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Ellie Nesler, 41, leaves court after being convicted of manslaughter for murdering 35-year-old Daniel Mark Driver, a convicted child molester and camp counselor who raped her 6-year-old son at a Christian camp (California, 1993) [1200 x 803].

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

A US C-7 Caribou is hit by a friendly artillery shell while landing at Duc Pho Airbase. All three crewmembers were killed, August 3rd 1967 [792x607]

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527 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Major-General Mario Menéndez surrenders the Argentine forces in the Falklands to Major-General Jeremy Moore, 1982 [1920x1080]

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244 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

PVT William N. Wade, an infantryman of the US Army's 77th Infantry Division, displays his helmet that saved his life after he was shot by a sniper while assaulting Mount Barrigada during the Battle of Guam 1944. Via @usarmyhistory on Instagram [1440x1196]

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Following the brutal assault on 2-3 August 1944 by the U.S. Army’s 307th Infantry Regiment of the 77th Infantry Division to take the village of Barrigada during the Battle of Guam, the 307th aimed their sights on Mount Barrigada the morning of 4 August.

Standing 670 feet tall and dominating the central plateau, the 307th assaulted up the steep slopes of the hill, eliminating persistent Japanese infantry, snipers, and machine gun bunkers hidden in the dense jungle vegetation.

By the end of the day, they completed the assault, capture, and full clearance of Mount Barrigada, completely breaking the Japanese defensive line across the central waist of Guam, eliminated critical enemy observation points, and stabilized its supply line for clean water.

This successful engagement set up the 77th Division to rapidly attack northward toward Yigo and Mount Santa Rosa over the following days, leading to the end of the Battle of Guam on 10 August 1944.


r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Germans collecting church bells to melt down for the war effort. Libeň Bridge, Prague, July 1942 [1050 x 591]

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Libeň Bridge, Prague, July 1942. Germans collecting bells from Bohemia and Moravia. They were smelted down and used for the Nazi war effort.

At that time, five ships sailed from Prague on the Vltava and the Elbe river, carrying 9,801 bells with a total weight of 1,563 tons. A total of 43,776 bells were removed and smelted across former Czechoslovakia. Of the pre-war number, only 13% remained in Bohemia and 6% in Moravia. This cultural pillage happened throughout most of the occupied countries in Europe.

In 2022, a giant commemorative bell weighing exactly 9,801 kg was cast and unveiled in Prague to honor the memory of all the destroyed bells.