On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip fired two shots that would change the course of history, sentencing 40 million to die in war while leaving the entire continent in tatters.Considering the disastrous chain of events that occurred from two bullets fired by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, it could be said that this was the single deadliest moment in history.
Gavril Princip’s Early Life And Radicalization The man who arguably single-handedly reshaped the course of the 20th century was born in the tiny town of Obljaj in Bosnia in 1894.
On March 26, 1964, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. met on Capitol Hill and discussed working together in the future — but within a year, one of them was dead. Universal History Archive/Getty ImagesThough Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were two of the most renowned Black leaders of the 1960s, they only met one time.
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are two of the most iconic figures of the 1960s American civil rights movement.
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump went from being a working-class Scottish immigrant to a New York City socialite who gave birth to the 45th President of the United States.The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesMary Anne MacLeod Trump and her husband attending Donald Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples on Dec. 20, 1993.
As a poor immigrant from Scotland, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump probably never could’ve imagined that her son would one day become the President of the United States.
Iconic LIFE Magazine Photos: Martin Luther King Jr. Source: Time Life
Originally snapped in 1957 at one of the early Civil Rights rallies in Washington D.C., the photo would go on to become one of the most famous of the Reverend and one of the most recognizable photos of the Civil Rights Movement itself. Despite being taken nearly nine years earlier, the photo was not published until a week after King was assassinated in 1968.
On February 17, 2014, 14-year-old Breck Bednar secretly met 18-year-old Lewis Daynes at his apartment in England. Bednar was found dead the next day.The untimely death of 14-year-old London native Breck Bednar shocked the world in 2014. His murder at the hands of a stranger he met online named Lewis Daynes served as yet another macabre cautionary tale to those socializing on the web.
His horrific execution was as shocking as it was senseless.