Moments In History

Babe Ruth and George Bush On January 29, 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame elected its first members. Among the five men was Babe Ruth, seen in this photograph taken in 1948, donating the manuscript of his autobiography to Yale.  The young man in uniform is the captain of the Yale baseball team and a future President. George H. W. Bush was an older college student—he had delayed going to college and joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.

 

 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became Mother Teresa

She's one of the world's best-preserved bodies: Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old Sicilian girl who died of pneumonia in 1920.

                                       

        A childhood photo of Barack Obama

                               

The Radio Hat was a portable radio built into a pith helmet that would bring in stations within a 20 mile (32 km) radius. It was introduced in early 1949.

 

In the days before alarm clocks were widely affordable, people like Mary Smith of Brenton Street were employed to rouse sleeping people in the early hours of the morning. They were commonly known as ‘knocker-ups’ or ‘knocker-uppers’. 

Ralph C. Lincoln, 11th generation Lincoln, 3rd cousin of Abraham 

 

   

May 08, 1945: Two million people gathered  Square to celebrate the end of  

                                                    World War II.                                                                                    

First photo of Napoleon 

Bonaparte aged 4!

   Marie Curie with Albert Einstein.

                                       

Over ninety years ago during World War I, British and German soldiers put down their weapons, walked out into the desolation of No-Man’s Land and shook hands. 

 The Statue of Liberty's face before it was installed.  

                                                 

    Tandem bicycle

          

 VJ Day at the end of World War II in 1945

This is actually a mask the Doctors wore so as not to contract fatal diseases back in Victorian era.       

              


Women operate stock boards at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The Waldorf was the first to employ women in its various departments, in order to release men for war work, 1918.