The organizers are trying to stop Katrin Switzer, she is competing with men at the Boston Marathon. She became the first woman to finish the marathon, in 1967.

This day in history is the Suez crisis.

On July 26, 1956, the President of Egypt decided to nationalize the Suez Canal. Thereby causing huge damage to the trade of Israel and its European allies. The very next day, Great Britain and France decided on a military operation. As a result of which Egypt lost, but under pressure from the USSR and the United States seized control of the channel. However, the Sinai Peninsula came under the control of Israel.

Armenian women who fought against the government troops of the Ottoman Empire, 1895.

Hattie McDaniel - the first American black actress to win an Oscar, 1940

She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Gone With the Wind. There was a scandal during the award ceremony, then in the USA blacks had to sit separately, or rather, do many things separately from whites.

The director of the film stood up for the actress, threatening to boycott the award. Nevertheless, it was not without troubles, which is why she has such a sad look in the photo.

McDaniel starred in more than 300 films, but in most of them her name was not even mentioned in the credits.

Actress Madeleine Smith, 1970s.

Jimi Hendrix sets fire to a guitar at a festival in Monterey, USA, 1967.

Salvador Dali paints his canvas "The Face of War"

1941

Mugshot of Marilyn Monroe, who was arrested for driving without a driver's license, February 4, 1954.

Miss November 1957 of Playboy magazine.

Night New York, 1930s.

Peter Dinklage, 1987

This day in history - the First World War began.

On June 28, 1914, the heir of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, was killed. This led to the July crisis and attempts to solve something peacefully. It didn't work out - on July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Russia has announced the protection of the country. And as a result, a complex system of alliances led to the most destructive conflict in history at that time.

This is Eugene Cernan, the man who was the last to walk on the moon. Exactly 45 years ago, on December 19, 1972, Cernan and two other crew members of Apollo 17 returned to Earth.

Sophia Loren on the beach in Cannes, 1955.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan hold a ceremony in Atlanta, USA

In the 1870s, the KKK was officially banned and went underground, but in 1915 the organization resumed its open activities. About 6 million people joined its ranks. Lynchings in the United States continued.

Chevrolet cars will pass along the West Side highway, on the background of the flooded liner Normandy, New York, 1942.

Wealthy family, 1910s, Monrovia, Liberia.

In the 20s of the XIX century, freedom fighters of oppressed Blacks in the United States organized a movement to return freed African slaves to their descendants' homeland. So the State of Liberia arose.
American Negroes, returning to Africa, seized a significant part of the territory from the local tribes in west Africa and ... turned them into slavery.
The descendants of slaves who were once taken to America carefully copied the American way of life and became slave owners themselves.

Winona Ryder, USA, 1990s.

The first Audi model. Germany, 1910

Many are surprised by the fact that Pope Benedict XVI served in Nazi Germany.

Joseph Alois Ratzinger, in 1941 he joined the "Hitler Youth". Later he became a soldier of the anti-aircraft battalion. In 1944, he joined the Austrian Legion, an air defense auxiliary personnel unit in Munich. He survived the war and became Pope Benedict XVI.

When Leonardo da Vinci wrote The Last Supper, he attached special importance to two figures: Christ and Judas. For a very long time he could not find sitters from whom he could paint these figures.

Finally, he managed to find a model for the image of Christ among the young singers. It was not possible to find a model for Leonardo's Judas for three years.

Until one day he came across a drunkard lying in the gutter on the street. He was a young man who had grown old from heavy drinking. Leonardo invited him to a tavern, where he immediately began to paint Judas from him. When the drunk regained consciousness, he told the artist that he had already posed for him once. It was a few years ago, when he sang in the church choir, Leonardo painted Christ from him.

The Last Supper, 1495-1498