"Broken arrow" 1966
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"Broken arrow" 1966

Eighty days after if fell into the ocean following the January 1966 midair collision between a nuclear-armed B-52G bomber and a KC-135 refueling tanker over Palomares, Spain, this B28RI nuclear bomb was recovered from 2,850 feet (869 meters) of water and lifted aboard the USS Petrel (note the missing tail fins and badly dented front). No radiation leak occurred.

u/Wild_Neighborhood605 — 4 hours ago
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Kenyan athlete Sabrina Chebichi, who won a marathon in 1973 barefoot and in a dress.

She was known as the petticoat runner.

u/IllustratorSea8372 — 7 hours ago
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Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

u/Bhavy1001 — 1 day ago
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Prague residents, carrying a Czechoslovakian flag and throwing Molotov cocktails in an attempt to stop a Soviet tank in downtown Prague on August 21, 1968.

u/Wild_Neighborhood605 — 2 days ago
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Four “Ranch Hand” C-123 aircraft spray liquid defoliant (AKA Agent Orange) on a suspected Viet Cong position in South Vietnam in September of 1965. The four specially equipped planes covered a 1,000-foot-wide swath in each pass over the dense vegetation.

u/Wild_Neighborhood605 — 3 days ago

Chernobyl Elephant's Foot, a formerly molten mass of "corium" from the reactor core meltdown. It still emits radiation today, that can kill a person in an hour just standing a couple of meters away.

u/Wild_Neighborhood605 — 3 days ago