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On this day in1963, the British government admitted that ex-diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union. He was revealed as a key member of the Cambridge 5, a spy ring which passed information to the Soviet Union during World War 2.
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On this day in1963, the British government admitted that ex-diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union. He was revealed as a key member of the Cambridge 5, a spy ring which passed information to the Soviet Union during World War 2.

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The ABC’s Monday Conference visited Mount Isa, Queensland in 1976 where locals were keen to have their say on the topic of gay liberation. Homosexuality was still illegal in most parts of Australia, and pioneering LGBTQ+ activist Lex Watson faced questions from both supporters and detractors.

Via here

u/ExtremeInsert — 9 days ago
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In 1985, Georges Courtois and Abdelkarim Khalki turned their own armed robbery trial into a live televised hostage crisis at the Nantes courthouse, taking 29 people hostage including the judges, and forced the judge to answer on camera for banning him from seeing his wife and kids for 3 years.

The standoff ran 36 hours, involved 200+ police including a Paris anti-terror unit, ended with the first ever deployment of RAID, and somehow nobody was killed, despite Courtois firing shots at the crowd from the courthouse steps at one point.

u/UtterlyInterest — 11 days ago
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Muhammad Ali visiting Bob Dylan backstage at Madison Square Garden during the star-studded Night of the Hurricane benefit concert, December 8, 1975. Photo by Ken Regan.

u/EaterofGrief — 11 days ago
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In 1910, Louis and Temple Abernathy decided to cross America by horseback without adult supervision, from Oklahoma to Manhattan. They were just 10 and 6 years old. To get back home, they bought a car and drove it while their horses returned by train. In 1913 they made the same trip on a motorcycle.

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u/UtterlyInterest — 22 days ago
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Various images from old school Hollywood at play. Starting with Clark Gable and his 1932 Packard Twin Six 905 Coupe Roadster.

u/ExtremeInsert — 25 days ago
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On this day in 1968 Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol in New York City. She believed that he wanted to steal her work: a play called Up Your Ass. She also wrote the SCUM Manifesto (Society For Cutting Up Men). Richard Avedon photographed Warhol's extensive post surgery scars a year later.

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u/UtterlyInterest — 29 days ago
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In 1954, director Elia Kazan was testing actors for the role of Cal Trask in East of Eden. Paul Newman, then a relatively unknown theater actor, screen-tested alongside the rising star James Dean.

u/CarkWithaM — 1 month ago
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In 1969 Samuel Beckett received the Nobel Prize for Literature. A virtual recluse & concerned about a spike in publicity, when Swedish TV asked him for an interview he said yes but on the basis it took place in Tunisia and that they didn’t ask him any questions.

u/ExtremeInsert — 1 month ago
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Stevie Nicks and George Harrison having a casual jam session in Maui, Hawaii, around 1978. George was working on material for his upcoming self-titled album, and the two spent hours just sharing music and collaborating. You can see Stevie writing away in her notebook while George plays.

u/CarkWithaM — 2 months ago