re: Another Historical Photos Thread

Bobby Fischer playing 50 opponents simultaneously, 1964.



Navy chaplain Luis Padilla gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela.
Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. 1962



Boxing 1913



Princess Diana shaking hands with one of the residents of Casey House, an AIDS hospice, in Toronto, Canada.

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Dagen H (H day) was the day, 3 September 1967, on which traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right.
The “H” stands for “Högertrafik”, the Swedish word for “right traffic”. After all, Sweden’s Scandinavian neighbors were on the right side of the road, most of Europe was on the right side of the road, and Swedish cars had left hand steering.

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Pope John Paul II visits his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca in prison.