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Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope and Bette Davis in front of the Hollywood Hall of Honor

This image shows one of the 1968 "Chicago Special Olympics" Games held in Soldier Field. The 1968 Games brought around 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities together from 26 U.S. states and Canada.

Photograph showing African Americans participating in the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, at Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama, as firemen attempt to force them to disperse by directing their fire hoses on them as they congregate in…

African-Americans kneel on sidewalk outside City Hall in Birmingham, Alabama protesting racial segregation

Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) cryptologists at work at Arlington Hall. Many of these cryptologists were women.

A recovered part of the original Japanese Type B cipher machine, codenamed "Purple" by the United States, on display at the National Cryptologic Museum in Washington DC.

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference in Finland several months after his space flight in 1961.

Announcement of the launch of the first artificial "sputnik" satellite by the Soviet Union.

Full Report of Yury Gagarin to the State Commission after his mission, on April 13, 1961.

AROOSTOOK LEATHERNECK IN KOREA -- Marine Sergeant Roger W. McCully, 21, straps Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, into his jet fighter-bomber at a base of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Korea. Sgt. McCully, a jet aircraft mechanic,…