The LZ 129 Hindenburg airship as it caught fire and was destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at the Lakehurst Naval Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937.
There were 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.
Operation Torch was the first mass involvement of US troops in the European–North African Theatre, and saw the first major airborne assault carried out by the United States.
”Descobri a colorização de fotos em 2015. Sempre me fascinou a ideia de trazer para uma realidade mais próxima os momentos e pessoas que moldaram o mundo.
O amor pela história me acompanha desde criança. Entendi desde o início que juntar minhas maiores paixões e transformá-las naquilo que viria a ser a minha profissão era um privilégio, e sempre atribuí à esse entendimento a “obsessão” que se desenvolveu em mim.
A ansiedade para compreender as técnicas, as incontáveis horas que passava estudando, o perfeccionismo que sempre persegui, a inquietação para produzir trabalhos cada vez melhores....
Todo o esforço valeu a pena e aos poucos veio o reconhecimento; primeiro internacional...
Mata Hari was executed by a firing squad #OnThisDay in 1917.
The military tribunal deliberated for less than 45 minutes before returning a guilty verdict. "It's impossible, it's impossible," Mata Hari exclaimed, upon hearing the decision.
"Harlot, yes. But traitor, never!"
At the time of her execution, she was 41.
"My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple."
#OnThisDay in 1943, prisoners at Sobibor covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
"Our day has come. Most of the Germans are dead. Let's die with honor. Remember, if anyone survives, he must tell the world what has happened here!"
Dutch historian and Sobibor survivor Jules Schelvis estimates that 158 inmates perished in the Sobibor revolt, killed by the guards or in the minefield surrounding the camp. A further 107 were killed either by the SS, Wehrmacht, or Orpo police units pursuing the escapees.
Some 53 insurgents died of other causes between the day of the revolt and 8 May 1945. There were 58 known survivors, 48 male and 10 female.