Otto von Bismarck
This photo depicts Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany, in the final hours before his passing. He died of natural causes in 1898. The picture was taken illegally by a journalist, making it one of the first scandalous photos in history.
May 25, 1953
Upshot-Knothole Grable was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the U.S. This picture depicts the mushroom cloud from its detonation, with the cannon from which it was fired in the foreground. The test remains the only nuclear artillery shell ever actually fired in the U.S. nuclear weapons test program.