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Granville-Paris Express rail engine 120-721 after it crashed through the station wall and onto the street #OTD October 22, 1895 https://t.co/ZgxI3XE6Io

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October 22, 1913 legendary photographer Robert Capa was born

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Bankrupt investor Walter Thornton tries to sell his luxury roadster for $100 cash on the streets of New York City following the 1929 stock market crash on October 30, 1929 https://t.co/5oxL5UKpIt

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Clinton and Monica hugging at a Fundraiser at the Washington D.C. Sheraton Hotel on October 23, 1996 https://t.co/FupdqYGuYW

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18-year-old man with the flowers in the picture is George Edgerly Harris III. He moved to San Fran and took the stage name, Hibiscus, co-founding a far-out, psychedelic, gay-themed troupe called The Cockettes. Photographed by Bernie Boston Oct 21 1967 https://t.co/opeu59cQK3

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Oct 17, 1968 Mexico City Olympics Tommie Smith on the gold medal platform, John Carlos on the bronze raising their fists in salute with silver medalist Peter Norman looking on. https://t.co/xvMvgUoef1

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On October 11, 1965, Dorothea Lange, the photographer, died at the age of seventy without ever knowing who the subject was in her famous picture. https://t.co/paEwt11IRF

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Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei Oct 6 1997, died at the age of 80. He never made any money from royalties of his work but his son-in-law Yuri Bibichev said Khaldei didn’t care, “He was glad that what he had done over 80 years was of use to someone”. https://t.co/wuYG4HPWwv

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Photographer of this photo, October 15, 1978, W. Eugene Smith suffered a massive stroke in Tucson, Arizona, while he was shopping to buy cat food. He was 59-years-old https://t.co/JPVVPHv5p0

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On October 7, 2001. #OTD the photographer of this famous civil rights photo, Will Counts, died of cancer at the age of 70 in Bloomington, Indiana. https://t.co/kh2ywMFZcn

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David 'Elsewhere' Bernal becomes famous after this video taken on Oct 6, 2001 goes viral. It was taken at the Kollaboration which was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles. https://t.co/w4lL9n8ePB

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German photographer, Richard Peter, who took this photo of the destruction of Dresden dies #OTD October 3, 1977 https://t.co/bcSl6CCIKG

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In this posed picture, photographer Fred Morley's assistant carries a carton of milk through rubble after a German bombing attack during the Blitz on October 9, 1940, https://t.co/cqwgLIDRMb

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October 7, 1914 Eugene de Salignac takes this iconic of workers arranged almost musically, on the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge — 31 years after it first opened. https://t.co/OU2dyFODux

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The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles) marching down the street when Warren “Whitey” Bernard runs out to his father, Pte. Jack Bernard. https://t.co/xLYKInOhWS

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On October 7, 2001. #OTD the photographer of this famous civil rights photo, Will Counts, died of cancer at the age of 70 in Bloomington, Indiana. https://t.co/kh2ywMFZcn

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Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei #OTD Oct 6 1997, died at age of 80. He never made any money from royalties of his work but his son-in-law Yuri Bibichev said Khaldei didn’t care, “He was glad that what he had done over 80 years was of use to someone”. https://t.co/wuYG4HPWwv

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David 'Elsewhere' Bernal becomes famous after this video taken on Oct 6, 2001 goes viral. It was taken at the Kollaboration which was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles. https://t.co/w4lL9n8ePB

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Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie reaching out to a fellow Marine near Hill 484 on October 5, 1966 https://t.co/xgMxknlUZc

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James Dean died at the young age of 24 #OTD September 30, 1955, in a horrible car crash at the Junction of highways 46 and 41 in California. https://t.co/RHCPEr7uIR