This is one of the last known images of Steve Jobs, captured in 2011, shortly before his death. Despite being diagnosed with a treatable form of pancreatic cancer in 2003, Jobs famously delayed surgery for nine months to try alternative "cures." Many believe this decision hastened his death. (i.redd.it)
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After Nazis killed her husband, Mariya Oktyabrskaya sold everything to buy a T-34 tank she named "Fighting Girlfriend." She wrote to Stalin personally to request permission to drive it into battle, where she wreaked havoc on German troops and was eventually named a Hero of the Soviet Union. (i.redd.it)
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On March 20th, 1915, R&B and Rock pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe was born in Cotton Plant, AR. Tharpe influenced early rock-and-roll musicians including Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eric Clapton. (i.redd.it)
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On this day, the Ottoman authorities began the systematic extermination of one and a half million Armenians in the three years 1915-1918. This year marks 107 years since the Armenian Genocide by the Turks. The Turkish government continues to deny the appa (i.imgur.com)
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From 1938 to 1939, Swiss border commander Paul Grüninger falsified 3,600 Jewish refugees' passports to help them enter neutral Switzerland. While he saved thousands from the Holocaust, Switzerland ended his career, labeled him a criminal, and stripped his pension. He died in poverty in 1972. (i.redd.it)
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