From Out Of The Past... The History In Pictures Thread

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Sign warning of sniper presence ('Watch out! Sniper') in Sarajevo, 1992.

VW Beetle Cup Racing, Brands Hatch, West Kingsdown, Kent, England. 1992.

L.A. Times cover, April 29, 1992.

On the streets of the L.A. Riots, 1992.

1992 Los Angeles riots - Wikipedia

 

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Henry Selick (Director) & Tim Burton (Producer) during the production of The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993.

On the streets of Manhattan, 1993, in HD.

Spoiler: New York City In 1993 HD Video

Kate Moss and a young Leonardo Di Caprio, NYC, 1993.

Sheryl Crow's major-label debut was released in 1993. Though known to many in the music business Crow reached crossover star status finally after grinding it out in the trenches as a sessions musician and song writer for years.

New York Daily News headline after the bombing at the World Trade Center, Feb. 27, 1993.

Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves on the set of the Shakespearean adaptation “Much Ado About Nothing”, 1993.

This really happened... Barkley teaches Godzilla basketball in a comic from 1993 that tied into an ad campaign featuring the two titanic stars.

Spoiler: Barkley Vs. Godzilla

 

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Tienamen Square, Beijing, China, 1989.

The Tiananmen Square protests or Tiananmen Square Incident, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件; pinyin: liùsì shìjiàn, literally six-four incident), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing during 1989. The popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests is sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement (Chinese: 八九民运; pinyin: bājiǔ mínyùn). The protests started on April 15 and were forcibly suppressed on June 4 when the government declared martial law and sent the military to occupy central parts of Beijing. In what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre (Chinese: 天安门大屠杀; pinyin: tiān'ānmén dà túshā), troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded.

Set off by the death of pro-reform Communist general secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989, amid the backdrop of rapid economic development and social changes in post-Mao China, the protests reflected anxieties about the country's future in the popular consciousness and among the political elite. The reforms of the 1980s had led to a nascent market economy which benefited some people but seriously disaffected others, and the one-party political system also faced a challenge of legitimacy. Common grievances at the time included inflation, corruption, limited preparedness of graduates for the new economy, and restrictions on political participation. The students called for greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech, although they were highly disorganized and their goals varied. At the height of the protests, about 1 million people assembled in the Square.


1989 Tiananmen Square protests - Wikipedia

 

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Russian marines, one of them wearing a WW2 German helmet, overlooking Grozny. First Chechen War. Fall, 1994. Russia savaged the Chechens during the war. The center of Grozny was leveled.

Grozny, 1994.

Angelina Jolie doing an interview while on the set of her film HACKERS, 1994.





I'm not sure what they were going for here... A Nintendo Gameboy ad from 1994.

Pamela Anderson at The Australian Music Awards Party in Sydney, Australia (December 1994).

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine and Brian Cranston as Dr. Tim Whatley from Seinfeld, 1994.

A wild and wet action shot of Michael Schumacher, 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix.

 

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Chris Farley and the great Brian Dennehy belting out on the set of the David Spade and Chris Farley film TOMMY BOY, 1995.

Wahlberg and DiCaprio, just hanging out, 1995.

Cover for the Spider-Man/Batman crossover one-shot Disorded Minds, 1995.

Two middle school girls getting ready to show off their new duds for the first day of school, 1995.

At the 1995 Pro Bowl, the NFL unveiled some new mascots that were the stuff of nightmares:

Pittsburgh Steelers.

Miami Dolphins

Cleveland Browns

Atlanta Falcons

Philadelphia Eagles

San Diego Chargers

 

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The Kansas City Chiefs played as the Dallas Texans in the AFL from 1960-1962.
Game programs against the Houston Oilers.

 

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Opening ceremony for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ga.

Cover for DC Versus Marvel #1, 1996.

R. Kelly, 1996.

Dicaprio, Pitt and Depp, 1996.

Dennis Rodman out on the town with Toni Braxton.

Spoiler: Toni Braxton- You're Makin' Me High

Cover for PC Gamer, May or 1996.

With two torn ligaments in her ankle, and a gold medal on the line, Kerri Strug took her second attempt at the vault and nailed it. She helped the US women's gymnastic team win gold at Atlanta in 1996.

 

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The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, 1997, and the destruction of the Barney balloon fulfills the wishes of an entire generation of parents:




Esquire Magazine cover, September of 1997.

The X-Files' Gillian Anderson cosplays as Morticia Addams for a photoshoot, 1997.

In 1997 Pepsi held a contest to win a life-size replica of the Simpsons house.

Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier on the set of the Luc Besson film The Fifth Element, 1997, with the actresses playing the "flight attendants" outfitted in the costumes he had created.

A captivated audience watches as IBM's Deep Blue defeats Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, 1997.

Mike Tyson in the ring after getting DQ’d for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear, 1997.

 

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Larry Page's business card from 1998.

Capitol records released 1000 of these diskettes when OK Computer was released by the band Radiohead in 1998.

In 1998 Edward Norton played backup guitar for Hole (Courtney Love’s band) few times. These photos are from the Shrine Auditorium on 11 December 1998. Norton and Love had a contentious on again, off again romance.

In 1998, The L.A. Times Posted a Special Issue, Predicting Life in 2013.

Read the full article here:

"Clinton Settles Paula Jones Lawsuit for $850,000 Paula Jones in October" (AP File) November 14, 1998.

Heck of a catch, Alaska, 1998.

This kid had it going on game wise circa 1998.

Nickelodeon Magazine cover, May, 1998.

 

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Ian McKellen with Peter Jackson in 1999 during filming of the Fellowship Of The Ring.

The ISS, June of 1999.

A young Franco and Rogen on the set of Freaks And Geeks, 1999.

Matt Stone & Trey Parker of South Park cosplaying The Matrix in 1999.

Magazine ad announcing the beginning of the Jon Stewart era of Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

Hey... It's that talentless moron ya'll made into a millionaire overnight cuz of "irony" back in 1999.

The "Ultimate Gaming Rig", the prize in a contest held by Game Pro Magazine in 1999.

Just Weird Al riding a roller coaster at an amusement part in 1999.

Even Spock was worried about Y2K back in 1999.

A mix of the music by the top artists of 1999:

Spoiler: Santanna/Rob Thomas- Smooth

Spoiler: Lauryn Hill- (Do Wop) That Thing

Spoiler: Jay-Z- Hard Knock Life

Spoiler: Ricky Martin- Livin' La Vida Loca

 

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For those too young to understand the way Rock' n' Roll changed America thanks to the Boomer generation that embraced it or what it meant to lose icons at such an early age during the infancy of Rock' N' Roll culture...


Rock legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas, on September 7, 1936. He is often regarded as the artist who defined the traditional rock-and-roll lineup of two guitars, bass, and drums. He was a major influence on later popular music artists, including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw (who later played Holly), and Elton John. He was among the first artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 13 in its list of "100 Greatest Artists".

Richard Steven Valenzuela was born May 13, 1941. K nown professionally as Ritchie Valens, he was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He had several hits, most notably "La Bamba", which he had adapted from a Mexican folk song. Valens transformed the song into one with a rock rhythm and beat, and it became a hit in 1958, making Valens a pioneer of the Spanish-speaking rock and roll movement. He also had the American number 2 hit ''Donna''.

Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson Jr. was born on October 24, 1930. known as The Big Bopper, he was an American musician, songwriter, and disc jockey. His best known compositions include "Chantilly Lace" and "White Lightning", the latter of which became George Jones' first number-one hit in 1959. In May 1957 he broke the record for continuous on-air broadcasting by 8 minutes. He performed for a total of five days, two hours, and eight minutes from a remote setup in the lobby of the Jefferson Theatre in downtown Beaumont, playing 1,821 records and taking showers during 5-minute newscasts.

Buddy Holly terminated his association with the Crickets in November 1958. For the start of the "Winter Dance Party" tour, he assembled a band consisting of Waylon Jennings (bass), Tommy Allsup (guitar), and Carl Bunch (drums), with the opening vocals of Frankie Sardo. The tour was set to cover 24 Midwestern cities in as many days. New hit artist Ritchie Valens, "The Big Bopper" and Dion and The Belmonts joined the tour to promote their recordings . On Monday, February 2, the tour arrived in Clear Lake, having driven 350 miles from the previous day's concert in Green Bay. The town had not been a scheduled stop, but the tour promoters, hoping to fill an open date, called the manager of the local Surf Ballroom and offered him the show. He accepted, and they set the show for that night. By the time Holly arrived at the venue that evening, he was frustrated with the ongoing problems with the bus. The next scheduled destination after Clear Lake was Moorhead, Minnesota, a 365 miles drive north. No let up after that was in sight, as the following day, they were scheduled to travel back almost directly south to Sioux City, Iowa, a 325 mile trip. Holly decided to charter a plane to take himself and his band to Fargo, North Dakota, which is adjacent to Moorhead. The rest of the party would have picked him up in Moorhead, saving him the journey in the bus and leaving him time to get some rest.

The plane took off normally from runway 17 at 12:55 am Central Time on Tuesday, February 3. Jerry Dwyer, owner of Dwyer Flying Service witnessed the take-off from a platform outside the control tower. He was able to see clearly the aircraft's tail light for most of the brief flight, which started with an initial left turn onto a northwesterly heading and a climb to 800 feet. The tail light was then observed gradually descending until it disappeared out of view. Around 1:00 am, when Peterson failed to make the expected radio contact, repeated attempts to establish communication were made, at Dwyer's request, by the radio operator, but they were all unsuccessful. Later that morning, Dwyer, having heard no word from Peterson since his departure, took off in another airplane to retrace his planned route. Within minutes, at around 9:35 am, he spotted the wreckage less than 6 miles northwest of the airport.

The Civil Aeronautics Board investigation concluded that the probable cause of the accident was "the pilot's unwise decision to embark on a flight" that required instrument flying skills he had not proved to have. A contributing factor was Peterson's unfamiliarity with the old-style attitude gyroscope fitted on board the aircraft, which may have caused him to believe that he was climbing when he was in fact descending. Another contributing factor was the "seriously inadequate" weather briefing provided to Peterson, which "failed to even mention adverse flying conditions which should have been highlighted."


The news of this fatal crash sent shockwaves through the music world. The New York Times, like many other newspapers across the nation, ran headlines reporting “Iowa Air Crash Kills 3 Singers.” The accident marked an abrupt end to three remarkable lives and their careers. Holly left behind a pregnant wife. Sadly, his wife Maria miscarried not long after learning about Holly’s death. Richardson’s wife was also pregnant at the time of the crash and later gave birth to their son Jay Perry. Valens was only 17 years old. The news made little mention of Peterson, who had only just gotten married to his high school girlfriend the year before. The first tribute song, “Three Stars,” for the late performers came out shortly after the incident. This ballad remembered Valens as one “just starting to realize your dreams” and how Holly’s music “could make the coldest heart melt.” It also recalled one of the Big Bopper’s most famous catchphrases: “you know what I like.” The most famous ode to the lost stars, however, wasn’t released until much later. Don McLean scored a number-one hit in 1971 with “American Pie,” which remembered the crash as “the day the music died.” Holly himself had a posthumous hit with “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” about a month after his death. His life has been the subject of numerous books and films, including the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story starring Gary Busey. Valens was also immortalized on the big screen with the 1987 film La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips as the teen singer. Richardson has lived on through his music, which has been featured on countless soundtracks. His son also spent years preserving his father’s legacy by performing as the Big Bopper Jr. before his own death in 2013.

Spoiler: Buddy Holly- Peggy Sue

Spoiler: The Big Bopper- Chantilly Lace

Spoiler: Richie Valens- La Bamba

American Pie (song) - Wikipedia

Spoiler: Don McLean- American Pie

 

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The creators of South Park, Stone and Parker in 2000.

Cover of Nickelodeon Magazine's Jan.-Feb. 2000 edition.

Winner for the Pulitzer Prize of best photo of the year, 2000.

Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian Perkins of The Washington Post For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees. Image Description: At the Macedonian border a man tries to get his daughter onto a bus to a new refugee camp. (Lucian Perkins/The Washington Post)

Bitterroot Forest Fire in Montana on August 6, 2000

Opening of the 2000 Sydney, Australia Olympics.

Mick Folely and Dwayne Johnson showing that whether in the ring or on the controllers playing Wrestlmania 2000 on N64, the Rock and Sock Connection will always be strong

Air France Flight 4590, on July 25th 2000, five seconds after takeoff.

On the afternoon of 25 July 2000, the aircraft serving the flight (registration F-BTSC) ran over debris on the runway during takeoff, blowing a tyre and puncturing a fuel tank. The subsequent fire and engine failure caused the aircraft to crash into a hotel in nearby Gonesse two minutes after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four more people in the hotel, with another person in the hotel critically injured.

The flight was chartered by German company Peter Deilmann Cruises, and the passengers were on their way to board the cruise ship MS Deutschland in New York City for a 16-day cruise to Manta, Ecuador. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27-year operational history.


Air France Flight 4590 - Wikipedia

On the streets of Shinjuku, Japan, 2000.

90's and early 2000's sex symbol Carmen Electra, the year 2000.

PlayStation 2 Launch at Sony Metreon October 25th, 2000.

 

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Somebody's awesome girlfriend in the year 2001.

So... Looks like there's nothing at all unique about thinking young people are catered to, ignorant ****heels? Who'd a thunkit? Time Magazine cover, Aug. 6, 2001.

(Laughing in Gen. X as the kids from 2001 are either 30 or over and are starting to realize, yeah, they were a spoiled bunch of brats. )

Theatrical Poster for Memento, released March 16, 2001.

Zach Braff, Ryan Reynolds and Donald Faison when Reynolds played a college friend of J.D. and Turk's on Scrubs, 2001.

Destiny's Child line up of Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, at the 2001 Grammy Awards.

September 8th, 2001, World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan.

A group of American High-school kids watching the news live on Sep 11 2001.

Frank Culbertson Jr. was on the International Space Station on September 11, 2001. This was a photo he took then.

This is from the Landsat7 sattelite on the same day.

From inside the evacuation of the WTC. FDNY goes up as civilians go down.

 

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Kirk Douglas became an international star through positive reception for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. His other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day, Ace in the Hole opposite Jan Sterling (1951), and Detective Story (1951), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama. He received a second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), which landed him a second Golden Globe nomination.

In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). In those two films, he collaborated with the then-relatively-unknown director Stanley Kubrick, taking lead roles in both films. Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit.[2] He produced and starred in Lonely Are the Brave (1962), considered a classic, and Seven Days in May (1964), opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films. In 1963, he starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film.

As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he wrote ten novels and memoirs. He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, the highest-ranked living person on the list until his death. After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996, he focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life. He lived with his second wife (of 65 years), Anne Buydens, a producer, until his death on February 5, 2020, at age 103. A centenarian, he was one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age


Kirk Douglas with his son Michael Douglas, 1948.

Kirk Douglas as Michael Midge Kelly in "Champion" - 1949 - colorized by jecinci

Kirk Douglas, seated in chair, on set during the filming of Ace in the Hole, New Mexico, 1950 35mm by Charles and Ray Eames.

Kirk Douglas and Brigitte Bardot sunning on the beach (Cannes Film Festival, 1953)

Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh in Lust for Life, 1956.

Kirk and Michael, 1960.

Kirk Douglas in Saint-Tropez, 1975.

Douglas at his book signing in Del Amo Fashion Center, Los Angeles, in 1990.

Kirk at 102 with his son Michael, 73, in 2019.

 

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost captured on camera at a Fatboy Slim gig in Brighton, the U.K., 2002.

Kobe shaking hands with Jason Kidd's son after sweeping the Nets in the 2002 Finals.

Pilot ejects at the 2002 Ukranian (Sknyliv) airshow disaster : 85 people were killed, and over 100 injured.

Christina Aguelera shows off her fashion sense circa 2002.

This is the main tower of Hirosaki Castle, Japan, 2002.

Adam Driver wearing a crisp Marines uniform, posing for his official picture after joining in February 2002.

Then a music star still on the rise, Avril Lavigne, 2002.

Ryan Adams, Nick Valensi, Beck & Jack White just hanging, NYC, 2002.

Theater stage that was built for the 2002 Bregenz performing arts festival in Austria.

Benedict Cumberbatch photographed during As You Like It rehearsals, 2002.

 

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Publicity photos of the cast from THE TWO TOWERS in full costume and make up, 2002.

 

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Saddam's statue being toppled in Firdos Square on April 9, 2003, Iraq.

Robin Williams with an American soldier in Baghdad, Iraq during the height of the war on a USO tour, 2003.

Striking the wrong tone of hubris and shortsightedness to many then, on May 1, 2003 President George W. Bush is flown via a fighter jet onto the carrier Abraham Lincoln with a very large and prominent "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him to announce to the American people that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".

The vast majority of casualties for the war in Iraq, both military and civilian, occurred after the speech.

Mission Accomplished speech - Wikipedia

Kelowna, British Columbia Wildfires, 2003.

R.I.P to the crew of STS-107 the Space Shuttle Columbia. On this day in 2003, they departed on their fateful mission.

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia

"K-Dog", a USN trained Bottlenose dolphin, works with EOD experts in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003.

This is a time-lapse exposure of a busy city crowd moving through Grand Central Station.

New York Photography Gallery - Portrait and Events - Workshops & Tours

Actors Aaron Ruell and Jon Heder in between takes on the set of the cult hit Napoleon Dynamite, 2003.

Launched on July 7, 2003, Opportunity (MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) landed on Mars on January 24, 2004.

Opportunity (rover) - Wikipedia

Cover of MAD Magazine released December of 2003.

 

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February 3, 1889 - In Oklahoma, two shotgun blasts in the back ended the life of the “Bandit Queen.” Born Myra Belle Shirley in Carthage, Missouri, she moved to Texas with her family after her brother was killed and her father ruined financially by the Civil War. In Texas, she began relationships with bad guys Cole Younger and Jim Reed. After Reed was killed, she joined with Sam Starr. Romanticized stories in dime novels told of her robbing and rustling aboard her mare Venus while wearing velvet robes and plumed hats. Belle’s killer was never caught.

 

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American service member returns home to see his family, 2004.

ACTUAL YEARBOOK in Louisiana from the year 2004.

No... Not a misprint... The year 2004.

Hard to believe but... Amy Whinehouse, London, 2004.

Spoiler: Amy Winehouse- Back To Black

Competitors at the 2004 Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest.

Because people... They were just THAT awesome! The Beastie Boys take time out of their usual pre-show basketball game when word got to them that these two fans fell in love partly due to their mutual love of the Beastie's music.

Spoiler: Beastie Boys- Ch-Ch-Check It Out

A then 18 year old Gal Gadot on the first day of her service in the IDF, Israel, 2004.

Long before the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon meets a young fan, 2004.

Covers for the DC/Marvel comic book crossover that pitted DC's JLA against Marvel's Avengers in a team up story that had been planned since the late 1970's. Famed artist George Perez, well known as a prolific artist that worked with both company's stable of characters, had actually been the artist assigned to the original project from decades earlier.

 

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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami) occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw, reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas. The earthquake was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate.

A series of large tsunami waves grew up to 30 metres (100 ft) high once heading inland, after being created by the underwater seismic activity offshore. Communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean were seriously affected, and the tsunamis killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries. The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh reported the largest number of victims. The earthquake was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. The direct results caused major disruptions to living conditions and commerce, particularly in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.

The earthquake was the third largest ever recorded and had the longest duration of faulting ever observed; between eight and ten minutes. It caused the planet to vibrate as much as 10 millimetres (0.4 inches), and it remotely triggered earthquakes as far away as Alaska. Its epicentre was between Simeulue and mainland Sumatra. The plight of the affected people and countries prompted a worldwide humanitarian response, with donations totaling more than US$14 billion. The event is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake.


2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami - Wikipedia


The first tsunami waves hit Ao Nang, Thailand.

Foreign tourists far out on the sand after the water receded react as the first of six tsunami waves started to roll towards Hat Rai Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand.

Spoiler: 2004 Tsunami footage-

And here are some pictures of areas affected heavily by the tsunami days and weeks after the Dec. 26, 2004 disaster and those same places years later after going through a large scale rebuilding process.




A photo taken on January 5, 2005 of the devastated district of Banda Aceh on Indonesia's Sumatra island in the aftermath of the massive tsunami.

The same location as before, photographed on December 1, 2014.

A photo taken on January 9, 2005 of the impassable main coastal road covered with debris in Aceh Besar district, on Indonesia's Sumatra island, where surrounding houses and buildings were heavily damaged and coastal villages wiped out in the aftermath of the massive tsunami.

The same location as before, photographed on November 29, 2014, showing the new highway.

A partly damaged mosque in the Lampuuk coastal district of Banda Aceh.

The same location as above, photographed on December 1, 2014, showing the renovated mosque surrounded by new houses and rebuilt community.

An aerial shot taken from a US Navy Seahawk helicopter from carrier USS Abraham Lincoln shows devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

A view of the same area of Lampuuk, prior to the ten year anniversary of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami on December 11, 2014.

The glowing names of tsunami victims at Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

 

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The Buncefield fire was a major fire at an oil storage facility on 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal, located near the M1 motorway, Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, England. The terminal was the fifth largest oil-products storage depot in the United Kingdom, with a capacity of about 60 million Imperial gallons (273 million litres) of fuel.

The first and largest explosion occurred at 06:01 UTC near tank 912,which led to further explosions which eventually overwhelmed 20 large storage tanks. The emergency services announced a major emergency at 06:08 and a firefighting effort began. The cause of the explosion was a fuel-air explosion in a vapour cloud of evaporated leaking fuel. The British Geological Survey monitored the event, which measured 2.4 on the Richter scale. News reports described the incident as the biggest of its kind in peacetime Europe and certainly the biggest such explosion in the United Kingdom since the 1974 Flixborough disaster.

Megan Fox in 2005.

Annie Leibovitz’s 2005 Star Wars Vanity Fair Cover.

Scarlett Johansson attending the Match Point film premiere, 2005.

Amanda Bynes, 2005.

The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated Islamic terrorist suicide attacks in London, England, that targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transport system during the morning rush hour.

Four Islamic terrorists separately detonated three homemade bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. The train bombings occurred on the Circle line near Aldgate and at Edgware Road, and on the Piccadilly line near Russell Square.

Apart from the bombers, 52 UK residents of 18 different nationalities, were killed, and more than 700 were injured in the attacks, making it Britain's deadliest terrorist incident since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie, Scotland, and England's deadliest since World War II, as well as the country's first Islamist suicide attack.

 

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Cover for Nickelodeon Magazine, August of 2005.

In 2005, the nuclear attack submarine USS San Francisco suddenly stopped dead in its tracks. The ship's crew were thrown about, some over distances of 20 feet, and the majority of the 137-member crew suffered one injury or another—including one that would later prove fatal. Further inspection would explain what happened, and reveal that the submarine's bow looked like a crushed soda can. USS San Francisco had run into an undersea mountain.

The incredible thing about the incident: despite running into an immovable object at more than 30 miles an hour, at depth of 525 feet, the San Francisco didn't sink, nor did it experience a reactor malfunction. Even more incredibly, the submarine was able to move under its own power back to port on the island of Guam.

Fergie, 2005.

A Canadian teenager's bedroom computer set up, 2005.

Kiwa Hirsuta, also known as a Yeti Crab was discovered in 2005 in the Pacific Ocean.

Missy Elliott at the Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons Fall/Winter 2005 Fashion Show.

The cover of Playboy, June 2005.

Some of the big song hits of 2005:

Spoiler: Foo Fighters- Best Of You

Spoiler: Weezeer- Beverly Hills

Spoiler: Kanye West/Jamie Foxx- Gold Digger

Spoiler: Green Day- Boulevard of Broken Dreams

 

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Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia




Satellite tracking of Hurricane Katrina plotting it's course for land fall in August of 2005.




Lake Pontchartrain overflows, New Orleans, Aug. 2005.

Six Flags New Orleans after being submerged by the waters of Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans, Aug 29, 2005.

A rescuer transports a box of cats to safety, New Orleans, 2005.

Survivors trudge through the waters to assess the damage.

People outside the Superdome, 2005.

Man looks on as fires rage, many for days as emergency services are taxed to the limit in the days following the hurricane's march of destruction.

Locals search the housing for those in dire need.

 

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Miss Japan's evening gown in Miss Universe, 2006.

The Office cast after Steve Carell won his Golden Globe in 2006.

From Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in 2006, on the opinions of Alaskan Republican Senator Ted Stevens in regards to the Internet:

Stephen Colbert does what he does best at the Foreign Correspondents dinner of 2006.

(To the thick heads in the peanut gallery... If you don't get that Colbert's literal job is to mercilessly tear public figures a new one when they act out of hubris and stupidity, and that he's always done this... There's no help for you. You've left reality behind.)

A reminder to all... This was Tom Hardy in 2006.

Britney Spears, 2006.

A Reflective Palace Of Rainbows. The Palacio de Cristal was originally built in the late 1880s in Madrid, Spain. In 2006, artist Kimsooja transformed it into this rainbow reflecting palace.

February 11, 2006... This **** happened. And... Just like before, right now, we are letting them get away with it because some of us are more angry at the nasty post somebody typed to us in 2003 than with unrepentent and unrivaled corruption at the highest levels of government. The Vice President shot a man in the face... And got the person who was shot to publicly apologize.

Dick Cheney hunting accident - Wikipedia

 

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April 16, 2007, a girl becomes embarrassed after giving flowers to a female US soldier on duty in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Patrick Swayze takes a picture with two fans, 2007.

Australia Day Jan 2007 - Blue sky, fireworks, storm rolling in, and McNaught comet in the sky.

The then 87 year old Morning Star Baptist Church burns down due to a four alarm fire. Portland, Oregon, 2007.

Couple kissing under a foggy Verrazano Narrows Bridge on the Brooklyn side, 2007.

Ladies Gaga and Starlight on stage at Lollapalooza 2007.

May 22, 2007, and Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama of Illinois speaks at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA.