10 interesting historical photographs

Martin Luther King being arrested for demanding service at a white-only restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida, 1964 

The 3245-year-old seal on Tutankhamen’s tomb before it was broken, 1922

 

An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in an airplane cockpit during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport him to a field hospital, July 1944. 

A Russian Soldier Looking Over Istanbul. In 1878 Russian army had almost reached Istanbul

Soviet border guards patrolling the USSR-China border (now Kazakhstan-China border) near Khorgos, 1984 Barack and Michelle Obama wedding photo, October 3, 1992.

Marilyn Monroe entertaining troops on stage in Korea (1954).

Russians wait in line outside a first McDonald’s fast food restaurant in Moscow 1991

 

As Queen Elizabeth II rides past, a foot guard passes out (1970) 

Police officer guarding a pharmacy in high-flood waters, Ontario, 1974