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Hank Aaron's 715th career home run, Atlanta, April 8, 1974. history

The Coolest Photo You’ll Ever See of Hank Aaron’s 715th Home Run

Not originally published in LIFE. Tense scene at a brokerage office during the 1962 stock market "flash crash." history

Panic From A Distance: Remembering the Market’s “Flash Crash” of 1962

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‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of an American Spree Killer

In downtown Anchorage, the buildings and the pavement dropped 20 feet, dividing Fourth Avenue into two levels and leaving a weird jumble of signs. history

The Biggest Quake in North America: Alaska, 1964

Oklahoma, 1942. Agriculturists work on the region's catastrophic on erosion problem. history

True Grit: Dust Bowl Survivors

Will D. Campbell, alone on the Lorraine Motel balcony, gazes out into the night. "This picture was probably made as soon as we got there," Groskinsky told LIFE.com. "When I saw him standing there, alone, I thought it looked as if he was just asking himsel history

The Night MLK Was Murdered: A Photographer’s Story

A boy badly burned by the Hiroshima bomb four years earlier, seen in 1949. history

After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors

Children watch the story of "Saint George and the Dragon" at an outdoor puppet theater in Paris, 1963. history

Paris in 1963: Children at a Puppet Show, and More

In a thousand-year-old rite, the witches dance around bonfire within prehistoric Rollright stone circle that stands in Oxfordshire. history

The Wonderful World of Witches: Portraits of English Pagans, 1964

John Glenn, 1959 history

The Right Stuff: When America Met the Mercury Astronauts

Albert Einstein's office - just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it - taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955. history

The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story

Adolf Hitler receives a model of a Condor airplane as a gift on his 50th birthday, Berlin, April 20, 1939. history

Hitler at 50: Color Photos From a Despot’s Garish Birthday Bash

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