Wilbur Shanklin of the 101st airborne guards German Prisoner, Turqueville, France, 1944

Nancy Nesbit, pilot trainee in women's flying training detachment, 1943

Before getting started at writing in his twenties, the young Hunter Thompson had managed to drop out of high school, going to jail for robbery and entering the US Army

Czech gymnastics icon Vera Caslavska who will be winning four gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico city

Ian Fleming (author of the James Bond novels) and Sean Connery on the set of Dr. No, 1962

Annie Fox was the first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat. She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Tony Hawk is known for landing the first 900 at a competition at X-Games. His new skateboard tricks while floating in zero gravity in a vomit comet is another reason to be impressed. @scienceissexy

Virgil Grissom, the command pilot of the Gemini-Titan 3 (GT-3) space flight, is shown in the GT-3 spacecraft just before the hatches are secured prior to launch, March 23, 1965

Max Planck hands over the office of Interim President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society to Otto Hahn, 1946

Army Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound in an airplane (in level flight) on October 14, 1947

Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov compete during the figure skating pairs short program at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon in 1967

Leonid Breznev and Willy Brandt in Germany, 1971

John Young, training for Gemini 3, 1965

Max Mathews with Generated Real-time Output Operations on Voltage-controlled Equipment system, 1972. GROOVE was one of the first computers developed for real time performance of music

Fyodor Makhnov the tallest person on Earth. Makhnov eventually grew to a stature of 7 ft 10 inches (2.39 m) and a weight of 365 lbs

Derrick Deamer and Clem Williams wear full battle gear as they chat on the British sector of Korea’s Naktong River front in South Korea, September 14, 1950

David Sarnoff announces black and white television as a commercial service at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, April 20, 1939

Violet McKenzie playing the piano at tea time at the Electrical Association for Women, 1936

The Kodak camera was patented in 1888 by George Eastman. It was a newer, easier way to have documented proof of what was going on