The Most Epic Photos From Each Year Since 1918 (101 pics)
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1918 — The end of WWI11919 — The Council of Four at the Paris Peace Conference2
1920 — The beginning of prohibition in the United States3
1921 — The first Miss America4
1922 — The Olav Tryggvason statue in Trondheim5
1923 — A visitor to the Tomb of Tutankhamun at The Valley of the Kings6
1924 — A close view of Trafalgar Square looking east from the west fountain. These original fountains were replaced in the late 1940s.7
1925 — Arctic expedition of the SS München8
1926 — Otto Peltzer breaking an 800 m world record9
1927 — Charles Lindbergh flies solo over the Atlantic.10
1928 — Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland11
1929 — The stock market crash12
1930 — The library at Peel House13
1931 — Hungarian aviators, Endresz György and Magyar Sándor are ready for their non-stop transatlantic flight.14
1932 — Preparing for the first underwater photographs outside of a diving bell15
1933 — The first flight over the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest16
1934 — Hitler at a Nazi Party rally17
1935 — Hemingway caught a tuna.18
1936 — The Olympic games in Berlin19
1937 — The Hindenburg airship crash20
1938 — A Tibetan woman21
1939 — Soviet Foreign Minister, Molotov signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact22
1940 — Standing guard on a beach in southern England23
1941 — Pearl Harbor was attacked.24
1942 — A Soviet junior political officer25
1943 -Young girls assembling machine guns in a Russian factory26
1944 — The Normandy invasion27
1945 — The end of WWII28
1946 — Traffic jam in Paris29
1947 — Princesses on the footplate during the royal visit to South Africa30
1948 — The first Prime Minister of Independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi on a train31
1949 — Dancers are celebrating New Year’s Eve32
1950 — An aerial view of the Corporation Quay33
1951 — Women wrestling34
1952 — A rocket laboratory35
1953 — John F. Kennedy and his then fiancé, Jacqueline Bouvier36
1954 — Roger Bannister finishing the 4-minute mile37
1955 — Members of the Royal Family helping out at a local village fete38
1956 — Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller at their wedding39
1957 — Laika, a Russian cosmonaut dog was the first animal in space.40
1958 — Pele’s final World Cup performance41
1959 — Some Like It Hot42
1960 — Che Guevara43
1961 — The first man in space44
1962 — Pablo Picasso45
1963 — Buddhist monks celebrating the anniversary of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc46
1964 — Beatlemania has arrived.47
1965 — Muhammad Ali screaming for Sonny Liston to get up and fight48
1966 — Basket shelters on a beach in Belgium49
1967 — An anti-war protester offering a flower to the soldiers50
1968 — A Black Power salute at the Olympics51
1969 — Armstrong setting foot on the moon52
1970 — Pele and British captain, Bobby Moore trading jerseys as a sign of mutual respect53
1971 — Latinos protesting against human rights abuse54
1972 — Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles from the film, Cabaret55
1973 — Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model.56
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