Walter Cunningham piloted the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7 - the first manned flight test of the third generation United States spacecraft @facethenation

Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham floats in the zero-gravity of space on October 14, 1968

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President John Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at San Antonio Airport on November 21, 1963. Kennedy's last day @facethenation

John Kennedy's motorcade cruises through San Antonio on November 21, 1963, the day before he was assassinated in Dallas

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On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship Hindenburg experienced a mid-air explosion at Lakehurst, New Jersey and was engulfed in flames in just 32 seconds.

At the time, the Hindenburg was the fastest and most luxurious way to cross the Atlantic. It had already completed 63 flights from its base in Germany to a range of destinations including Rio de Janeiro. It had also been used as a propaganda tool to support Hitler’s remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936, and flew over the Berlin Olympics later that year.

The Hindenburg began its maiden trans-Atlantic flight exactly one year before the disaster, on May 6, 1936. By the end of the year it had crossed the Atlantic 34 times, transporting 3.500 passengers and 30.000 kg of mail. It was, therefore, a proven and reliable form of transport – if you could afford a ticket!

When the Hindenburg arrived at Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, Captain Max Pruss delayed landing due to poor weather conditions. Three hours later he carried out a swift landing to take advantage of an improvement in the weather. The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by flames.

The most widely accepted explanation for the fire is that the airship was statically charged as a result of flying through the storm, and the landing ropes ‘earthed’ the airship, resulting in a spark. However, the biggest single cause of the fire is simple: the Hindenburg contained 7 million cubic feet of explosive hydrogen gas

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The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames

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French soldiers moving into attack from their trench during the Verdun battle on the Western Front in France, on February 21, 1916, during the first World War @facethenation

The battle that raged for 10 terrible months: soldiers wait in the trenches as they prepare to make their way "over the top" to face the enemy

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In 1925 and 1926, the Ku Klux Klan descended on Washington for two massive marches.

In the early 1920's, the KKK was at the peak of its membership, numbering 4 million strong. The growth of the hate group was fueled by the 1915 release of the silent film Birth of a Nation, which portrayed members as heroes, coinciding with the widespread xenophobia following the devastation of World War I.

The KKK's hatred was directed not only against black people, but also against European Catholic and Jewish immigrants flocking to the U.S. after the war.

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Ku Klux Klan members hold a march in Washington

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Horse-drawn fire engine racing to a fire. The era of the fire horse lasted roughly fifty years stretching from the end of the Civil War until the end of 1915 @facethenation

First ever video footage of New York fire brigade, 1893 🚒

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When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in 1917, the first thing they did was to start destroying monuments to the tsars and replace them many times over with monuments to Communist revolutionary heroes and influential socialist thinkers like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Vladimir Lenin initiated a plan of "Monumental propaganda", and according to this strategy, numerous monuments became important means to propagate revolutionary ideas.

The earliest monuments of Lenin's Plan appeared on the streets and squares of Moscow and Saint Petersburg in time for the first anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1918. From 1918 – 1921 in Moscow alone over 25 sculptural monuments were set up and more than 15 monuments were erected in Saint Petersburg. Still, due to the use of inexpensive materials, most monuments haven’t survived.

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Lenin speaks at the opening of the monument to Marx and Engels on November 7, 1918

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A car mounted pedestrian catcher. The shovel-like contraption fixed to the front of a car was designed to reduce the number drunk pedestrians killed on Paris's busy roads in 1924 @facethenation

A trial of a protective net attached to the front of an automobile for the safety of any pedestrians the car might attack

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One of the strangest craft of the 1950's, the Avrocar VZ-9 was the result of a Canadian effort to develop a supersonic, vertical takeoff and landing fighter-bomber. However, its circular shape gave it the appearance of a “flying saucer” out of science fiction movies of the period.

When it was discovered that the VZ-9 could barely get off the ground and would not be able to operate at high altitude, the U.S. Army evaluated it as a hovercraft to carry troops across swamps. It was here that the nickname Avrocar was coined as being more appropriate. The flying saucer was more of a skimming saucer, with a top speed said to be less than forty miles per hour, making it slower than an army truck. Helicopters were more practical for flying troops over swamps. The project was cancelled in 1961.

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The Avrocar VZ-9 was developed by Avro Canada as a top secret black project for the U.S. Army and Air Force, but the flying saucer shaped aircraft was a failure

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Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, meeting at the "Big Three" Tehran Conference around December 1, 1943 @facethenation

The Tehran was a strategy meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill from Nov 28 and Dec 1, 1943. It was the first of the World War II conferences of the "Big Three" Allied leaders

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