During the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, Simo Häyhä, a Finnish sniper and competitive shooter, racked up 505 confirmed kills in just 100 days of combat.

The Finnish 🇫🇮 soldiers called him “The Magical Shooter”, the Soviet soldiers had a more apt nickname for him. They called him the “White Death” @facethenation

❄️🏉❄️❄️ Start of a rugby match between England ⚪️ and Ireland ⚫️ at Twickenham, Greater London, 1955

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Young East Berliners shout for joy 🙌 as they run into West Berlin through an opening in the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, December 23, 1989.

The new East German government had promised to fully open the gate by Christmas 🎄. The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain. For many people in Germany 🇩🇪, especially for those with family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 and friends in the other part, this was one of the best days in their lives @facethenation

There were two black pilots in World War I, one on each side of the conflict. Many historians argue that it's either an Ottoman military officer Ahmet Ali Celikten and an American aviation graduate Eugene Jacques Bullard

Who was the first black pilot ever?

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When WWI broke out in 1914, Eugene Jacques Bullard joined the French Foreign Legion 🇫🇷.

Bullard volunteered as a gunner in the French Air Service in 1916. Less than a year later, he made Corporal and qualified as a pilot with Aéro-Club de France license number 6950 @facethenation

In 1908, Ahmet Ali Celikten graduated from school as a First Lieutenant. And then he went to aviation courses in the Naval Flight School that was formed on 25 June 1914 at Yeşilköy. A year later he passed the flying test and joined the Ottoman air force 🇹🇷 @facethenation

Snowball fight in winter of 1920 in London. It was a cold, snowy day in December ☃🧣🧤

❓What is the weather like in your city today?

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Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein discussing quantum mechanics, 1927.

Despite their differences of opinion regarding quantum mechanics, Bohr and Einstein had a mutual admiration that was to last the rest of their lives @facethenation

January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany and implements blatant anti-Jewish policies.

Hitler’s emergence as chancellor, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world @facethenation

Crowds on the beach to see the first aeroplane ✈️ at Maroochydore (coastal suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Australia 🇦🇺) on February 1, 1922 @facethenation

The pilots were Capt Snell 👨‍✈️ and Lieut Bird 👨🏼‍✈️. They landed unexpectedly about midday. It was first thought to be a forced landing but two valid reasons transpired afterwards. One was a dire shortage of cigarettes on the aeroplane and the other was that, having an alleged up-todate map 🗺 on board, which mentioned no township, village or settlement here, they went down to get its name.

Vladimir Lenin with group of commanders in the Red Square, May 25, 1919 @facethenation

He inspects the Vseobuch troops — system of compulsory military training for men.

The first Vsevobuch was urged by the 7th Congress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1918 to fight the remnants of opposition to Soviet rule. Initially Vsevobuch engaged mainly the workers and poor peasants.

Physicist Albert Einstein on the premier of Eleanor Roosevelt's weekly NBC television show, February 14, 1950 @facethenation

Einstein warns that the development of the hydrogen bomb brings the possibility of ending life on Earth, "within the range of technical possibility.”

🇫🇷 1970s French Jet-Powered Monorail @facethenation

The Aérotrain I80 250 was a hovertrain developed in France from 1965 to 1977. In 1974, the Aérotrain, set a world speed record for overland air cushion vehicles, reaching a mean speed of 417,6 km per hour and a peak speed of 429,7 km per hour.