1960s:
President JFK greets trick or treaters, John Jnr and Caroline

1965:
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Amphibious car





“President Lyndon B. Johnson was known as an owner of an Amphicar. Apparently he liked to scare new visitors to his ranch by driving them downhill in his Amphicar directly into his property’s lake, all the while shouting that the brakes had broken”

- Wikipedia

3rd September 1967:
Traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right





“Dagen H (H day) was the day on which traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. The change was widely unpopular, The campaign included displaying the Dagen H logo on various commemorative items, including milk cartons, men’s shorts and women’s underwear. Swedish television held a contest for songs about the change; the winning entry was Håll dig till höger, Svensson (‘Keep to the right, Svensson’) by Rock-Boris.”

- Wikipedia

1920s:
Rosie the Presidential Elephant Golf Caddy

1903:
Bud, the first dog to drive across America





“In 1903 Horatio Nelson Jackson and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States. Somewhere in Idaho, Jackson and Crocker obtained a dog, a Pit Bull named Bud. Newspapers at the time gave a variety of stories of how Bud was acquired, including that he was stolen.

“It turned out that the dusty alkali flats the travelers encountered would bother Bud’s eyes so much (the Winton had neither a roof nor windshield) that Jackson eventually fitted him with a pair of goggles.”

- Wikipedia

1913:
American Civil War Veterans shake hands








“The 1913 Gettysburg reunion of 53,407 American Civil War veterans was for the Battle of Gettysburg’s 50th anniversary. President Woodrow Wilson’s July 4 reunion address summarized the spirit: “We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten—except that we shall not forget the splendid valour.”“

- Wikipedia

Jully 1969:
President Nixon visits the Apollo II Astronauts in quarantine

1968:
May Protest, Paris by Göksin Sipahioglu













“The May 1968 protest refers to a particular period in French history. It was historically significant for being the first wildcat strike ever, and for being the largest general strike ever, bringing the economy of an advanced industrial country to a virtual standstill. It commenced with a series of student occupation protests. The strike involved eleven million workers for a continuous two weeks, and its impact was such that it almost caused the collapse of President Charles de Gaulle’s government.”

- Wikiped

1961:
Nelson Mandela

21st October 1967:
Flower Power





“Flower Power, taken by photographer Bernie Boston was taken during a march to the Pentagon and shows a young, long-haired Vietnam protestor in a turtleneck sweater, placing carnations into the barrel of a rifle of a National Guardsman.”

- Wikipedia