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These 30 RARE Historical Photos Reveal What REALLY Happened. If you consider yourself the type of person who finds world & American history particularly intriguing, you're going to love this incredible collection of photos. Below are 30 images that span across continents and decades, each one of them a window into a time that most of as aren't fortunate enough to have seen (and some lesser-known moments from recent decades, too). Check them out and take a walk down history's memory lane -- #27 is such a cool photo. #1. A scene from the 1980 Atari's National Space Invaders Championship. #2. This science fair project, entitled "The Effects of LSD on Fish," was submitted by a 10th grade California student in 1972. #3. A colorized portrait of Brigitte Bardot in 1950. #4. The crowded -- and extraordinarily well-dressed streets of London in the 1900s. #5. The first cable car crossing over Niagara Falls in 1916. #6. Chevy Chase High School's Home Economics class, photographed sometime in 1935. #7. Gilbert Kerr, a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, serenading an Emperor penguin in 1904. #8. Volunteer fire fighters in 1870s Istanbul. #9. Fidel Castro holds up a newspaper with a story about a plot to kill him, which happened in 1959. #10. A vintage Coca-Cola magazine advertisement from 1960. #11. Opening day at Disneyland, 1955. #12. Damage from a wind storm in Times Square, 1912. #13. A 1936 BMW Schneekrad snow machine parked on the street. #14. Rosie Ruiz, the first woman to cross the Boston Marathon finish line. Unfortunately, she cheated: Ruiz took the train for part of the race. #16. And finally, a cool old Toyota Corolla advertisement. #17. A Japanese woman carries her son on her back as she marks her ballot. This was in the first free election in 1946 Tokyo. #18. Jimi Hendrix in his kitchen at 34 Montagu Square, London, 1967. #19. An American B17 drops food over Schiphol Airport during operation Chow Hound in 1945 #20. The Chalk Games in New York City, taken in 1950. #21. During World War II, British troops are pictured handling mines and booby trap devices using a blind screen. #22. The front of Chicago's Navy Pier, back in 1965 when it was the University of Illinois. #23. Apollo 11 mission officials celebrate the spacecraft's successful launch on July 16, 1969. #24. The Tower of the Sun, created by Japanese artist Taro Okamoto, shown here in 1970. #25. The first known photograph of someone giving the finger -- can you spot him? #26. The exact moment five year old Harold Whittles hears for the very first time after doctors place an aid in his left ear. #27. Princess Lee Radziwill and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, photographed in Italy in 1962. #28. Two waiters serve steel workers lunch on a girder above the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1930s NYC. #29. Women in France cultivating fields during World War I. #30. The title of this photo is "Wishram woman in festive bridal raiment", by Edward S. Curtis.