A picture is worth a thousand words…and the ones you’re about to see might be worth more than that. History class was never the most exciting, but if I had these pictures to envision the worlds most important events, I might not have been so bored. It brings a reality to events that you can’t quite comprehend with just the imagination. Take a look for yourself!

#1 Children licking large blocks of ice on the sidewalk in New York City in 1912.

#2 A payphone in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.

#3 John F. Kennedy Jr. in the presidential plane, 1963.

#4 Freddie Mercury with his mother, 1947.