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1Oct 1, '24Jimmy Carter is now too old to play with Legos 🧱953×10.4M247k18k4.7k
2Dec 30, '23Upon seeing this Iowa farmer during his visit, Khrushchev patted his belly, exclaiming, “Now there’s a real American!” 1959.415×4.5M12k1.2k984
3Aug 29, '25Kanye West saying “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Mike Myers looks on in shock.383×4.2M6.7k6551k
4Apr 21, '24The Virgin Mary punching the Devil in the face, painting from c. 1240.226×2.5M2.9k526262
5May 29, '25Upon seeing this Iowa farmer during his visit, Khrushchev patted his belly, exclaiming, “Now there’s a real American!” 1959.154×1.7M10k8221k
6Apr 21, '25Pope Leo XIII was the earliest-born person recorded on film. Born in 1810, the pope was eighty-six when these clips were captured in 1896. For reference, the Pope was born the year131×1.4M9.7k8351.7k
7Aug 1, '25Robert E. Lee on the back of his warhorse “Traveller”, 1866.110×1.2M3k237133
8Sep 2, '25FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 194796×1M2k262303
9Dec 29, '24Jimmy Carter had the longest post-presidency retirement in history. At 43 years 344 days, Carter’s retirement was longer than the age John F. Kennedy was when he started his presid55.5×605k1.6k20193
10Oct 29, '24Two children dressed up for Halloween 1918, USA47.1×513k6.3k351618
11Sep 11, '25New York skyline the evening of September 10, 2001, the day before the world changed…39.1×425k20k3k1k
13Jul 25, '25Ulysses S. Grant's visit to China with notable Chinese Viceroy Li Hung Chang. Grant had traveled to China after his term as president during a two-year world tour. 1879.37.9×413k2k233174
14Jul 25, '25The last photo taken of Ulysses Grant, who died four days later. 1885.37.3×406k11k886525
15Jul 4, '25Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft copy of the Declaration of Independence36.2×394k2.8k638305
16Sep 10, '24New York skyline the evening of September 10, 2001, the day before the world changed…33.3×363k19k2.9k621
17Oct 2, '24Jimmy Carter was 3 years old when sliced bread was first introduced in July 1928. Carter has thus experienced all of the greatest things since sliced bread. 🍞22.7×247k2.9k402111
18May 28, '25🚨Breaking History News🚨 Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler (1841-1845), dies at 96. His grandfather left office 180 years ago.22×239k1.7k316159
19May 26, '25Eisenhower walking through a cemetery in Normandy, France, the final resting place of many from D-Day, 196421.5×234k3.7k57677
22Jun 5, '2581 years ago tonight 156,000 troops waited for what would be the largest amphibious invasion in history. Many wouldn’t know whether they’d live to see another sunset. In the end, a19.5×213k8.4k1.9k192
23Oct 1, '24Jimmy Carter was born closer to the death of both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (d. 1826) than to the present day! #Carter10016.8×184k4.2k381196
24Jun 6, '25Footage of troops landing on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. June 6, 1944.16×174k5.8k859347
25Sep 2, '24I want you to follow @historycalendar if you: ✅ love learning obscure historical trivia ✅ want to learn the hard truths of history ✅ discover often overlooked historic figures ✅ en15.8×172k2635737
26Jun 5, '25General Eisenhower addressing troops the day before the D-Day landing, June 5, 1944. “The eyes of the world are upon you.”15.3×167k6.7k1.2k191
27Dec 30, '22Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the Casablanca Conference. Marrakesh, Morocco, 1943.15.1×165k1.8k21332
28Oct 1, '24Jimmy Carter has turned 100 years old! Carter, who served at the 39th President of the United States, is the longest-lived former president and the first to reach the milestone in 14.3×155k4.5k880127
29May 28, '25For reference, a man who died in 2025 had a grandfather who was born in 1790… when George Washington was serving his first term as President.12.5×136k2.8k379238
30Jul 20, '25Nixon’s speech if Apollo 11 had failed, in which case the astronauts were stranded on the Moon, 1969.11.5×125k1.5k212364
31Jun 6, '25Eisenhower visiting a cemetery in Normandy, France 20 years after the D-Day invasion.11.2×122k5k60578
32Sep 11, '25The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of an unidentified man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in Ne10.7×116k3.4k529233
33Nov 19, '23Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Smith, at their wedding in 1946.9.9×108k3.1k36048
34Oct 25, '25“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” — George Patton9.8×107k5.1k715427
35May 27, '24Eisenhower walking through a cemetery in Normandy, France, the final resting place of many from D-Day, 19649.8×107k2.2k35828
37Jul 27, '25Rest in Peace to the great Tom Lehrer, who helped put the periodic table of elements to song! 🎶9.1×99k1.8k509301
39Oct 1, '24Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Smith, at their wedding in 1946.8.8×95k7k439116
40Apr 30, '25Adolf Hitler died 80 years ago today.7.5×82k1.9k32197
41Jul 25, '25General Ulysses Grant (right) sitting next to President Andrew Johnson in June 1865.7.5×81k4.9k390274
42Oct 30, '25A young Barack Obama with his mother on Halloween, c. 19667.3×80k5.4k477130
43Sep 11, '25Marcy Borders covered in dust after the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Borders would succumb to stomach cancer in 2015, aged 42.7.3×80k5.1k725154
45Apr 19, '25The American Revolution began 250 years ago today with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. 🇺🇸7.2×78k2.4k39765
46Oct 22, '22An Egyptian woman from Cairo, c. 1870.7.0×010k951252
47Sep 11, '25September 11, 2001 — 10:03am: Flight 93 is crashed by its hijackers as a result of fighting in the cockpit 80 miles (129 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvani6.4×70k2.1k239124
49Jul 27, '25The Four Corners in Kingston, NY is the only intersection in the United States in which all four structures date before the American Revolution. The oldest, the Jansen House, was b6.3×69k2.3k267242
50Nov 22, '24John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963. JFK was assassinated the very next month.6.3×68k4.8k570140
51Sep 11, '25Shadows of the World Trade Center over NYC, 1988.5.8×63k4.3k418224
52Aug 1, '25Robert E. Lee, posing for a photograph sometime after the Civil War.5.5×60k3.6k229138
53Jun 6, '25The scale of war can easily be forgotten until you see photos from the era. Here are LCTs with barrage balloons deployed, unloading supplies on Omaha Beach for the break-out from N5.4×59k2.5k491115
54Aug 16, '25Jefferson Davis, former U.S. Senator and President of the Confederate States of America, 1885.5.4×59k1.7k12795
55Aug 3, '25“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt5.3×58k2.7k519236
56Sep 11, '25The lobby of the World Trade Center in New York, as it appeared in 1976.5.2×57k3.9k317213
57Jul 27, '25J.P. Morgan was self-conscious about his rosacea and hated being photographed. Here is a rare photo of Morgan capturing his appearance without being doctored. Note deformity in his5.2×56k2.9k120247
58Aug 1, '25This is the actual flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814 during the Battle of Baltimore, which inspired the anthem "The Star Spangled Banner". Photograph from 1873.5.1×56k4.1k644238
59Sep 11, '25The World Trade Center under construction, 19704.9×54k3.5k419189
60Apr 19, '25Paul Revere’s house in Boston.4.9×53k3.1k22966
61Sep 26, '25Louis-Victor Baillot, who fought in Napoleon’s army. Before his death at the age of 105, he was last living veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, 18974.8×53k2.4k230143
62Jun 6, '25Ronald and Nancy Reagan walking along the Normandy American Cemetery, 1984.4.8×52k2.6k23440
63Aug 26, '22The patent for toilet paper, showing the intended orientation had the paper drape over the front of the roll, not behind it. 1891.4.3×05.1k652336
64May 26, '25American Civil War veterans, filmed in 1929, describe the battles of Cole Camp & Wilson Creek, 1861.4.2×46k1.5k271415
65Sep 2, '25The White House as it appeared at the end of the Civil War, 1865.4.0×44k1.7k242110
66Nov 19, '23Jimmy Carter with Rosalynn Smith and his mother at his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on June 5, 19463.7×40k1.4k16115
67Jul 26, '25John Quincy Adams, photographed c. 1840s. He is the earliest-serving U.S. president ever to be photographed (having served 1825-1829).3.7×40k2.5k297102
68Nov 22, '24John F. Kennedy approximately one minute before he was shot, Nov. 22, 19633.7×40k2.1k31990
69May 26, '25US Marine who paid the ultimate price during the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945.3.6×40k2.9k32073
71May 26, '25Out of over 750,000 soldiers that fought for South,these were last 3 surviving Confederate Civil War veterans, 1951.3.3×36k2.1k244127
72Jul 30, '25A daguerrotype of John Armstrong Jr with his dog, 1840. Armstrong was the last surviving delegate to the Continental Congress, dying in 1843. He is the only delegate to have been p3.3×36k2.7k406180
73Oct 23, '22Blanche Monnier was a French woman noted for her beauty. She wished to marry an old lawyer that her mother disapproved of, so her mother locked her daughter in a small dark room in3.2×03.8k671200
74Oct 16, '25Woman on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France 1947.3.1×34k2.1k20865
75Dec 29, '24Now Jimmy Carter is one for the ages3.0×32k1.6k18280
76May 26, '25A living United States flag, formed by 10,000 Navy Sailors in Illinois, 1917.2.9×32k1.6k30252
77Jun 6, '25Rather than get caught up in today’s turmoil, let’s take some time to remember the brave men who faced danger head-on during the Normandy invasion #OnThisDay in 1944. ♥️ & 🔁 t2.9×32k1.8k32124
78Jul 25, '25Rare photo of general and former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant with a posture brace behind him to prevent movement during a photo session. Any movement would cause blurring due t2.9×31k2.3k277124
79Sep 11, '25The Empire State Building next to the Twin Towers on the September 11 Attacks, 20012.6×28k1.6k177111
80Oct 8, '22Queen Fawzia Fuad of Iran and Princess of Egypt, c. 1939.2.3×03.2k346109
81Aug 1, '25Robert E. Lee posing shortly before death in 1870.2.2×24k2k14270
82Jul 26, '25Former President Andrew Jackson shortly before his death in 1845. He was among the first presidents to be photographed.2.1×23k1.9k19866
83Apr 20, '25The tombstone of Samuel Adams (1722-1803) in Boston.2.1×23k1.5k14337
84Oct 22, '22Men of the 72nd highlanders who served in the Crimean war, c. 18542.0×02.7k35254
85Aug 3, '25“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams, 17752.0×22k1.7k31057
86Oct 23, '22Princess Ileana of Romania, 1920s2.0×02.9k28456
87Sep 7, '22A Woman with all her belongings, sitting alone in war-ruined Cologne. 1945.1.9×02.6k32654
88Sep 1, '25The last photo taken of Ulysses Grant, who died four days later. 1885.1.8×20k1.5k18050
89Jul 26, '25Robert E. Lee, around age 38, and his son William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, around age 8, c.18451.8×20k1.7k16988
90Jun 6, '25A US helmet sits atop a captured German machine gun, marking the location at Pointe du Hoc of fallen comrades, casualties of June 6, 1944 during D-Day.1.8×19k1.5k22034
91Jul 31, '22Robert Cornelius, who took the first self-portrait photograph, October or November 1839, an approximately quarter plate size daguerreotype. On the back is written, "The first light1.5×02k26047
92Aug 7, '22Interior of a passenger airplane in the 1930s.1.4×01.9k22840
93Oct 26, '22Adolf Hitler receiving salutes from the German Reichstag upon declaring war on the United States, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany, 19411.2×01.6k21357
94Oct 29, '22Two children dressed up for Halloween 1918, USA1.2×01.8k11968
95Oct 25, '22The only known photograph of an African American Union soldier with his family. c1863-651.2×01.7k22825
96Nov 26, '22FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 19471.1×01.5k16360
97Aug 27, '22“Into the jaws of death”- With the first wave headed ashore at Normandy, June 6, 19441.0×01.4k17516
98Sep 1, '22Lost men being buried at sea aboard the USS Intrepid, 1944.1.0×01.4k18124
99Oct 29, '22Young German Soldier Crying After Being Captured by U.S. Forces in 19450.9×01.3k9717
100Jul 29, '24The Tetons and the Snake River. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming photgraphed by Ansel Adams. 19420.7×7.4k222395

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