Shots That Shook the World

31 photos according to agency World Press Photo
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May 1995. Chechnya. Boy looks out from a bus loaded with people fleeing Grozny from the epicenter of the fighting near Shali ... Taken Luciano Perkins from the newspaper "Washington Post» ...


August 28, 1955. Cup of Motorsport for the track Volk Molle in Danii.Avtor - Mogens von Haven.


1956. East Germany. The daughter met a German soldier of World War II, a prisoner who has served a term in the USSR. Author - Helmut Pirate.


September 4, 1956. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students who go to college. Author - Douglas Martin (agency "Associated Press»)


September 1958 goda.Chehoslovakiya. National Championship football game Prague and Bratislava. Author - Stanislav Teasing.


October 12, 1960 in Tokyo. A student activist of Right Forces kills Socialist Party chairman Asanuma Inizhiro. Author - Yasushi Nagao.


June 4, 1962 Puerto Kabello goda.Morskaya base. Wounded soldier sniper dies at the hands of the Priest Luis Padillo.Avtor - Hector Rondon Lovera from Venezuela.


June 11, 1963 in the southern Vetname.Buddistsky goda.Saygon monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to protest against religious persecution by the government of Vietnam. Author - Malcolm W. Browne ("The Associated Press»)


April 1964. Haziveram Cyprus. Turkish woman mourns her husband, who became a victim of the Greek-Turkish civil war. Author - Donald McCallin for the magazine "The Observer».


September 1965 goda.Bin Dean in South Vietnam. Mother and children are stepping up the river to escape the American bombing from the air. Author Kioichi Sawada ("United Press International»).


February 24, 1966 goda.Tan Bean in South Vietnam. The US military has dragged on a rope body vetkongovskimi rebel ... Author - Kioichi Sawada ("United Press International»).


May 1967. South Vietnam. The commander of the tank M48, 7th Regiment of the US Army at work ... Author - Co Rentmister (magazine «Life»).


February 1, 1968. Saigon in South Vietnam. South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc National Loan executes a Viet Cong soldier verdict over the army. Author - Eddie Adams.


May 1969. Londonderry in Northern Ireland. A young Catholic in clashes with British troops ... Author - Hanns-Jorge Anders ("Stern»).


December 29, 1971. Saarbruecken to East Germany. Shootout between police and bank robbers. Author - Wolfgang Peter Geller.


One of the most famous photographs of the Vietnam voyny.8 June 1972, in the Southern Vetname.Pan Trangbang Tee Kim Puk fleeing napalm by South Vietnamese troops mistakenly dumped ...


September 11, 1973, Santiago, Chile. Democratically elected President Salvador Alenda seconds before death during military coup at the presidential palace.


July 1974. The victims of the drought in Niger. Author - Ovie Carter for the "Chicago Tribune».


July 22, 1975. Boston. Girls and women are falling out of the window, trying to escape the fire. Author - Stanley Forman.


January 1976. Beirut, Lebanon. Palestinian refugees. Author - Frankoz Demulder.


August 1977. Modderdam illegal settlements in South Africa. The police spray tear gas in response to protests by residents against the demolition of their homes. Author - Leslie Hammond.


March 26, 1978. Tokio.Protest against the construction of Narita Airport. Author - Sadayuki Mikami.


November 1979. Sa Keo refugee camp. Kambodzhiyka lulls baby, waiting for the distribution of free food. Author - David Barnett.


April 1980. Uganda. Terribly hungry child and missionary. Author - Mike Wells.


February 23, 1981. Madrid. Spain. Lieutenant Colonel Thayer Antonio Molina and members of the Civil Guard and the military police held hostage by the Spanish parliament. Author Manuel Perez Barriopedro.


September 18, 1982. Beirut, Lebanon. The consequences of the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. Author -Robin Moyer.


October 30, 1983. Koynoren in eastern Turkey. Kezban Lakes found her five children dead after the devastating earthquake. Author - Mostafa Bozdemir.


December 1984. India. The child, who died as a result of leakage of poisonous gas in an accident at a chemical factory Union Carbide. Author - Pablo Bartholomew.


November 16, 1985 goda.Kolumbiya. Twelve Omayra Sanchez trapped in the ruins, formed in the eruption of Nevado del Ruz. After sixty hours in this trap, she lost consciousness and died. Author - Frank Fournier.


March 31, 2003. Iraq. Man tries to soften the harsh conditions of his son in jail for voenoplennyh. Author - Jean-Marc wake.