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The airship Hindenburg explodes as it comes in for a landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937. © Bettmann/Corbis.



Tanks roll into Tiananmen Square in Beijing in response to pro-democracy student protests, 1989. By Stuart Franklin/Magnum Photos.



Director Roman Polanski sits on his home’s bloodied porch after the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, by Charles Manson’s followers, August 1, 1969. By Julian Wasser/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.