1.
Born 110 years
ago, Red
Grange carries
the ball in
his
professional
debut for the
Chicago Bears in front of 39,000 people on Thanksgiving Day 1925.
Chicago Bears in front of 39,000 people on Thanksgiving Day 1925.
(Average
attendances
were around
5,000 up to
that point)
2.
The face of an
NHL goalie
before masks
became
standard game
equipment.
Terry Sawchuk,
Detroit Red
Wings goalie.
NHL
Hall of Fame.
No. 1 Retired
by Detroit .
3.
The first ever
team photo in
baseball
history, 1858.
4.
Members of
the Stealth
Bomber
football squad
at Gallaudet
University,
1920. It was
the first
university for
the deaf and
they started
the idea of
the football
huddle so
other teams
couldn't see
their signs.
5.
U.S. chess
prodigy, Bobby
Fisher,
playing 50
opponents
simultaneously
at his
Hollywood
hotel on 12
April 1964.
He won 47,
lost 1 and
drew 2.
6.
The very first
Rockefeller
Center
Christmas
tree, 1931.
7.
Old Cincinnati
Library,
looking at one
of the large
cast-iron
book alcoves
that lined the
Main Reading
Hall, circa
1900.
8.
The Hindenburg
successfully
landed in
Lakehurst, New
Jersey,
May 1936.
9.
This is what
Mount Rushmore
was supposed
to look like
if they hadn't
run out of
funding in
1941.
10.
Last public
execution in
USA, 1936.
11.
Dissection
room at a
medical school
in Bordeaux,
France.
Circa 1890.
12.
Suburbia:
move-in day
1950.
13.
Children in an
iron lung
before the
advent of the
polio
vaccination.
Many children
lived for
months in
these
machines,
though not all
survived,
1937.
14.
André
Roussimoff
(Later known
as the Giant)
Cannes,
France,
1967.
15.
An aerial view
of Hiroshima,
Japan, one
year after the
atomic bomb
detonation.
Taken July 20,
1946.
