June 20, 1940
This photo shows captured Senegalese soldiers in service with the French army shortly before they were massacred by the Germans at Chasselay near Lyon. German troops that invaded France that year committed a number of widespread atrocities, especially against Black African colonial troops.
September, 1987
This is the wedding photo of Roop Kanwar and her husband Maal Singh Shekhawat. Kanwar was the last woman to be burnt alive on her husband's pyre in a Sati ritual. Kanwar was 18 years old and had been married for 8 months to Shekhawat, who had died one day prior at the age of 24 and had no children. 45 people were charged with her murder but later acquitted.