Andre The Giant with his body double on the set of The Prince Bride, 1986

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13 April 1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest ever golfer to win the Masters Tournament

The then 21-year old sportsman was also the first person of African heritage to win a major golf title. Tiger Woods is considered one of the most successful golfers of all time.

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State of Affairs At Washington, early 1861

This cartoon dates from the transition between Lincoln's election and his assumption of the Presidency in March, 1861. James Buchanan is pictured as a helpless old woman, fretting as his cabinet members resign, and ultimately doing nothing about the coming Civil War.

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14 April 1912 Doomed passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic

The subsequent sinking of the world's largest ocean liner of the time resulted in more than 1500 deaths. It was one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history.

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Midnight-Club Member before an illegal Streetrace in Tokyo in the early 90s.

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Kalle Johansson, a lone Swedish police constable, brandishes his saber at a group of rioters attempting to storm a Nazi assembly. Linköping, September 5, 1943.

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Empress Matilda (1102–1167) was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of Henry I, king of England and ruler of Normandy, she went to Germany as a child when she was married to the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V.

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German POWs captured by the Soviets near Königsberg (April 10, 1945)

German soldiers captured by the Red Army near Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad).

* Location: Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany
* Author: Mikhail Savin

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A group of female Red Army POWs captured by the Nazis. Nevel. July, 1941.

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A group of well-dressed people crossing a suspension bridge. Vancouver⁣, Canada, 1905⁣.

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A young girl with Down’s syndrome. Her photo was taken inside an asylum in England in the 1890s.

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17 April 1986 The world's longest war ends without a single shot having been fired

The state of war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly had been extended for a total of 335 years by the lack of a peace treaty. Some historians doubt that war had ever been declared.

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Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, are believed to have shot themselves on the couch in their bunker on April 30, 1945, according to Allied war correspondents. Hitler is probably the one whose blood is on the couch's arm.

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Farah Pahlavi (1938–) is the former Queen and last Empress of Iran and is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. As a philanthropist, she advanced the welfare of Iranian civil society through the establishment of charities, and founded Iran's Shiraz University.

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The Shah of Iran lights a cigarette for his second wife Soraya during the 1950s.

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The quarterback for the New York Giants, Y.A. Tittle on September 20, 1964, after being thrown on the ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers tackle in Pittsburgh. Tittle was forever captured in the picture as the quintessential elderly warrior who had at last fallen from grace.

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Priincess Diana’s famous “revenge” dress, worn the same night Prince Charles confessed to cheating (1994).

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German ship Gneisenau in Kiel dock after being hit by a torpedo from a British submarine, 1940s.

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