John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician. On 4 November 1909, to prove that pigs could fly, he put a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his French-built Voisin aeroplane.
The first aerial photo of New York City, taken by photographer James A. Hart in 1906 from a hot air balloon
It's been some time since I was in the market for crayons but if Crayola reissued this packaging, I'd be all over them.
March 4, 1861. The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. The unfinished Capitol in the background.
During WWII the Polish army trained a bear to carry artillery shells. His name was Wotjek and he had a fantastic truck insignia.