These Newly-Colorized Historical Photos Reveal Shocking Things

Newly Engaged Jackie and JFK

After they got engaged, Jackie Bouvier and John Kennedy visited the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port with a reporter who documented their relationship. Life Magazine ran a feature on their engagement with the headline "Senator Kennedy Goes a-Courting.”

The More You Know

During World War I, Jackie the baboon was awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal.
The Dutch declared a war against the Royalists but no battles happened or deaths caused. It went on for 335 years.
Vladimir Pravik was the first of the few firefighters who reached the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and after the contact to radiation his eyes turned from brown to blue.
The Sixteenth President of the USA, Abraham Lincoln was declared as a wrestling champ. He had concurred one loss among 300 matches.

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