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John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

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The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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US heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis receives a medal during WW2

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The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

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The battleship USS California following the attack at Pearl Harbor

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Crossing the line: Japanese soldiers seize a railway during the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 – prompted by a staged bombing near the city of Mukden. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Josephine Baker lounges on a tiger skin around the time she starred in La Revue Nègre

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