The President had some impressive skills, Gerald R. Ford and Pelé, 1975

The Titanic took off for its last trip, full of dreams and promises, Ireland, 1912.

Rush hour looked a lot different than it does today, Chicago, 1909.

Barack Obama on his high school basketball team

Muhammad Ali talking someone out of jumping off a building, 1981

Elton John at the piano bar aboard his private plane, 1976

The opening ceremony of the 1896 Olympic Games in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.

Female Danish gymnasts practice at the 1908 London Olympics.

Eisenhower’s Inauguration on January 20, 1953

Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light, 1937

Marilyn Monroe performing for troops stationed in Korea, February 1954

Mugshot of Joseph Stalin held by Okhrana: the Tsarist Secret Police, 1911

One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler’s bunker (Führerbunker) in 1945 by Allied soldiers

Hindenburg over Manhattan on May 6, 1937, hours before disaster

Citizens in a bar celebrate the end of alcohol prohibition in the United States. December 5, 1933

Liberated Jewish man holds Nazi soldier at gunpoint during WWII

NYC Grand Central Station, 1929. The sun can’t shine through like that now because of taller buildings

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

An intoxicated man is taken home by a basket man employed at a bar in Turkey in the 1960s

An African-American sharecropper and devoted mother from Louisiana teaches her children letters and numbers at home in 1939

What a football game looked like in 1920