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Destroyed streets in Valdivia, Chile following the Great Chilean Earthquake, May 22, 1960 [1536 × 864]

Related article about the 1960 Valdivia earthquake:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/22/1960-great-chilean-earthquake/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 13 hours ago

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Delegates gathered beneath the FIFA banner during an official FIFA congress, 1960s [1536 × 864]

Related article about FIFA’s founding:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/21/fifa-founded-paris-1904/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 1 day ago

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Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis before departing Roosevelt Field for the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, May 20, 1927 [1536 × 864]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/20/lindbergh-atlantic-flight/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 3 days ago

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Marilyn Monroe performing ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’ for John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, May 19, 1962 [1536 × 864]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/19/1962-marilyn-monroe-serenades-jfk/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 4 days ago

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Scientists monitoring the eruption of Mount St. Helens during the catastrophic volcanic eruption in Washington State, May 18, 1980 [1396 × 1120]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/18/mount-st-helens-eruption-1980/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 5 days ago

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Jacques-Louis David’s painting depicting the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, December 2, 1804 [1536 × 864]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/18/1804-napoleon-crowned-emperor/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 5 days ago

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Buttonwood Agreement signed on Wall Street in New York City, May 17, 1792, helping establish what became the New York Stock Exchange

Background article and historical context:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/17/1792-wall-street-begins/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 6 days ago

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U.S. Senate Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C., May 17, 1973 [1500 × 1000]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/17/1973-watergate-goes-public/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 6 days ago

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The world’s first working laser, demonstrated by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California (1960) [2048 × 1536]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/16/first-working-laser-1960/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 7 days ago

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Mass rally during the beginning of China’s Cultural Revolution in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, launched under Mao Zedong’s leadership in 1966 [1432 × 1074]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/15/cultural-revolution-china-1966/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 8 days ago

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Skylab, America’s first space station, photographed in orbit above Earth after its launch aboard a Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973 [2048 × 1463]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/14/1973-skylab-launch/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 9 days ago

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David Ben-Gurion declares the establishment of the State of Israel in Tel Aviv following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine (May 14, 1948) [2048 × 1463]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/14/1948-israel-declared-independent/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 9 days ago

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Winston Churchill delivering his “Blood, toil, tears and sweat” speech shortly after becoming British Prime Minister, London, 1940 [1536 × 1024]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/13/churchill-blood-toil-tears-sweat/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 10 days ago

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Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square moments before the assassination attempt, Vatican City, May 13, 1981 [1536 × 1024]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/13/pope-john-paul-shot-1981/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 10 days ago

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Florence Nightingale caring for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, 1850s [1536 × 1024]

Source:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/12/florence-nightingale-born/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 11 days ago

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IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov in New York City, 1997 [1600 × 1000]

Source article with additional historical context:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/10/deep-blue-kasparov-1997/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 13 days ago

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Nelson Mandela being sworn in as President of South Africa following the country’s first fully democratic election, 1994 [1200 × 1500]

More context on Mandela’s inauguration and the end of apartheid here:
https://universalrecord.org/2026/05/10/mandela-president-1994/

u/No-Possible-4979 — 13 days ago

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US-China AI Race Intensifies as New Models Reshape Global Tech

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u/No-Possible-4979 — 14 days ago

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AI and Robots Are Beginning to Replace These Jobs First

universalrecord.org

u/No-Possible-4979 — 14 days ago

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The Tower of London, where Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671, illustration c. 1880s [1600 × 1000]

u/No-Possible-4979 — 14 days ago