This Many Years Ago

@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social

6172 Followers 1012 Following

I post daily about something that is “this many years ago”. This account is a hobby project. Time zone is GMT+2.

Sadat, Carter and Begin at the signing ceremony
Palestine Police Force wanted poster of Irgun and Lehi members. Begin appears at the top left.
The hotel after the bombing
The site of the temple in 2017
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in a photograph taken by Neil Armstrong, who can be seen in the visor reflection along with Earth, the Lunar Module Eagle, and the U.S. flag.
Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in order: Lucretia Coffin Mott is on top of the list
Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert (1785)
Portrait of Luis de Onís y González-Vara
Screenshot from the Darth Vader 'Hallway scene' in Rogue One, where Vader stands in the centre of the shot.
Banknote of one hundred daler issued by Stockholms Banco and signed by Johan Palmstruch, 1666
Russian billboards celebrating the 1410 Teutonic-Polish/Lithuanian Battle of Tannenberg/Grunwald as a Russian victory and "a memorable date in Russian military history", on the background of the Ribbon of Saint George.
Lithuanians fighting with Teutonic knights (14th-century bas-relief from the Malbork Castle)
An eyewitness painting of the siege of the Bastille by Claude Cholat
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793)
The Battle of the Boyne (Ireland) between the armies of James II and William III, July 12, 1690. In the center, a battle between cavalry is taking place. Dead soldiers and horses lie on the ground.
Early 17th-century Chinese woodblock print, thought to represent Zheng He's ships
Chaco Canyon petroglyph proposed to represent SN 1054 and the moon.
Russell announces the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, London
Roswell Daily Record. July 8, 1947. Top of front page. Article titled: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region".
Image: Bread slicing machine from the 1930's
John Lennon (centre) plays guitar with the Quarrymen at St Peter's church fete, Woolton, Merseyside, 6 July 1957. Photograph: PA
Modeling the first bikini on 5 July 1946 at the Piscine Molitor in Paris
1863 photograph of Carroll by Oscar G. Rejlander
The Coronation of Hugues Capet (941-996), 988. Miniature from a manuscript of the 13th or 14th century. B.N., Paris, France.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1917)
Arondéus on holiday on the island of Urk, 1921.
Tunguska event. Trees were knocked down and burned over hundreds of square km by the Tunguska meteoroid impact. This image is cropped from the original, taken in May 1929 during the Leonid Kulik expedition in 1929.
Ivan Vyhovsky, Ukrainian hetman XVII c., 19th-century, Havrylo Vasko (based on miniature from Chronicle of Samiilo Velychko)
“Stormé DeLarverié, at Roberts Show Club,” Schomburg Digital Collections, New York Public Library, 1958.
Outside of the official business district, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. A 1969 police raid here led to the Stonewall riots, one of the most important events in the history of LGBT rights (and the history of the United States). This picture was taken on pride weekend in 2016, the day after President Obama announced the Stonewall National
The only known photograph taken during the first night of the riots, by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows LGBTQ youth scuffling with police.
Annie as depicted in an illustration that accompanied her first-person account of her trip published in the New York World on October 20, 1895. Image courtesy of annielondonderry.com
Map of the world, showing route traveled by Annie Londonderry.
Londonderry with her branded placard
Credit to /u/boazg on reddit:
Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Latin copy in Sao Paulo)
The Brotherhood Flag
Original eight-stripe rainbow flag for the 1978 Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco.
Music was typically played during outbreaks of dancing mania, as it was thought to remedy the problem. A painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, after drawings by his father. Picture not from the 14th century
Birth control pills in 1976 in New York. Bettmann/Getty Images
Portrait of Galilei by Justus Sustermans, 1635
IMAGE: Nishiki-e, Honnoji ware, 3 pieces, Nobukazu Yosai, 37.4 × 73.2 Created in the Meiji era, owned by Nagoya City.
Painting possibly depicting Murad Reis (Jan Janszoon), by Pier Francesco Mola © Louvre
Portrait of Dr. Opal Lee
Juneteenth gathering at Emancipation ParkA group, including Emancipation Park founder Jack Yates (far left), gathers for a Juneteenth celebration, Houston, c. 1880s.
Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon, exhibited in 1880 by Sir William Quiller Orchardson. Orchardson depicts the morning of 23 July 1815, as Napoleon watches the French shoreline recede.
The Battle of Waterloo William Sadler, 1815
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor, on board the French frigate Isère 1885
Tereshkova in 2024
Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spaceship capsule.
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space when she launched on the Vostok 6 mission June 16, 1963. (Image credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin, using standard abbreviations of the period, authenticated with the Great Seal of King John. The original wax seal was lost over the centuries. This document is held at the British Library and is identified as "British Library Cotton MS Augustus II.106
The London Science Museum's difference engine, the first one built from Babbage's design. It has the same precision on all columns, except in calculating polynomials, the precision on the higher-order columns could be lower.
Emperor Licinius of the Eastern Empire (left) and Emperor Constantine I of the Western Empire (right).
"Ik hoop dat ik alles aan jou kan toevertrouwen, zoals ik dat nog nooit aan iemand heb gekund, en ik hoop dat je een grote bron van troost en steun zult zijn."
Anne Frank's diary Photocollection: Anne Frank Foundation, Amsterdam
Phaeton Peugeot Type 7 4-seater of Isaac and Paul Koechlin from Valentigney, with Daimler 3 HP 3-4 engine, before departing for Paris-Bordeaux-Paris.
The Frederick Barbarossa Memorial, near Silifke in Mersin Province, southern Turkey. The text explains in Turkish and German how Frederick drowned nearby. Not far from this spot the Roman-German Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned on June 10, 1190, in the Göksu River at the head of his army on the way to Palestine after he had agreed with the Seljuk Sultan Kiliçaršlan II on a peaceful march through his lands
Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph, from the Gotha Manuscript of the Saxon World Chronicle (13th century)
Aureus of Nero, c. AD 68