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Feisty French archaeologist Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt forged a career in a male-dominated field to become curator of Egyptian antiquities at the Louvre.

Officers and crew on a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy salute their flag, emblazoned with the rising sun.

Japanese naval pilots receive orders before bombing Pearl Harbour.

Calling for the end of nuclear testing, protesters march in front the White House in 1958—seven years after the U.S. began atmospheric detonations in Nevada and 12 years after the first test in the Pacific, in the Marshall Islands.

Magnus Hirschfeld was a pioneer in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, and an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights. His vision of a more equal society wouldn't manifest until a half century after his death.

Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his son ski nearly 40 miles south of Tehran in 1963. Mohammad Reza would abandon his throne 16 years later, one month before the Islamic Revolution. After his departure, crowds chanted, “The shah is gone forever!” His son has yet to reclaim the throne.