Queen Victoria with her Indian servant Abdul Karim whom she called Munshi (teacher) and who taught her Hindi, 1885

The World's Record black sea bass caught by Edward Llewellen, 1903. It weighed 425 pounds (193 kg)

Howard Carter became the first man to see inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 26, 1922

King George VI photographed during his address to the British people from London on September 3, 1939, the first evening of the Second World War

Christa McAuliffe, teacher. First U. S. Private Citizen in space, aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle which exploded shortly after lift off, January 28, 1986

Stirling Moss reflects on his epic 1955 Mille Miglia victory. Moss's time of 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds, and his average speed of 98.53 mph (159 km/h)

Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15, 1888 to November 9, 1918

Dr. Elizabeth Bruyn was an ambulance surgeon in New York City. On her first day at work in 1910, she saved the life of an 18 month old baby who had been overcome by gas from a leak in an apartment

In a battle of former Olympic gold medalists in Nov 1965, Muhammad Ali kept Floyd Patterson from becoming the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times by winning via a 12th round TKO

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, great Victorian Engineer who constructed the first British Railway

22-year old Cornelia Fort became the 1st American woman pilot in a combat zone while flying over Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, December 7, 1941

Fire-fighting specialist Red Adair was one of the first called to extinguish the oil fires started in Kuwait by Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf conflict, 1991

Fidel Castro plays baseball, 1959

Albert Einstein pronounces a speech about the civilization and science at the Albert Hall on October 4, 1933

Janet Collins was the first and only African American to become Prima Ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, 1951

Polish flying ace Jan Zumbach of the 303 Kosciuszko Polish Fighter Squadron poses with his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB, 1943. The plane bears his distinctive Donald Duck symbol

Anna Frank. Her famous diary chronicles the events of her life from June 1942 until 1944, during the World War II

Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a space shuttle mission on Columbia STS-93, July 23, 1999

African American inventor Charles Baker and an assistant standing behind the heating (radiator) whitch they invented, 1906

Agnes Chase went to Brazil and collected so many grass specimens, that she increased the world’s knowledge of Brazilian grasses by at least 10 percent