The first women's international, between the English team Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. and France (result 2-0) in Preston, England, 1920. This photo shows the greeting between the two captains, Alice Kell for England with the striped shirt and Madeleine Bracquemond for France.

This is Saparmurat Niyazov, former despot of Turkmenistan photographed around 2002. He has gone down in history for his bizarre edicts and laws, such as banning beards, banning dogs, renaming the days, weeks and months. And declaring bread must be called Gurbansoltan, his mothers name.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (How the HELL did this flop?)

In 1868, photographer Thomas Annan was hired to photograph the Glasgow slums. The work he produced is absolutely fantastic, full of lots of ghostly figures.

'Old Vennel off High Street' Glasgow, photographed by Thomas Annan in 1868. Annan was hired to photograph the Glasgow slums. The work he produced is fantastic, full of lots of ghostly figures. I've linked to a gallery of his work in the comments should you wish to see more.

On this day in1976, Patty Hearst was convicted of armed robbery. Hearst was the granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, she was sentenced to 7 years in prison but her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter in 1979

This is Saparmurat Niyazov, former despot of Turkmenistan photographed around 2002. He has gone down in history for his bizarre edicts and laws, such as banning beards, banning dogs, renaming the days, weeks and months. And declaring bread must be called Gurbansoltan, his mothers name.

Bonasera was one hell of a mortician! On the set of the Godfather, Brando and Caan share a joke. 1972

Neonatal nurse Marie Fikáčková is photographed here in the late 1950s with a doll. She would be convicted in 1960 of killing of two newborn babies, although she claimed to have killed at least ten newborns between 1957 and 1960.

The Soviet Sex Alphabet: Sergey Merkurov’s VERY saucy work from 1931

Mr & Mrs Hudson outside their Newsagents, Seacroft, Leeds, 1974.

This 1936 project was proposed for making the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower accessible by car.

Two juvenile thieving friends are shackled as punishment. Old Street, London, England, 1872.

The Four Tops rehearse in the basement of the Apollo Theatre in 1964.

FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked with finding an FBI mole, despite secretly being the mole himself. By the time of his arrest in 2001, he had worked for the KGB since 1979, causing "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history," receiving millions in diamonds and cash.

In 2004, Russia attempted to assassinate future Ukrainian president Viktor Yuschenko by poisoning him with a chemical found in Agent Orange. He survived the attempt, but his skin was scarred for life.

This dapper chap is Albert Göring, younger brother of the infamous Hermann Göring in 1940. Serving as the export director of Škoda Works he would use his position and brother's reputation to save over hundreds of Jews during WW2 as well as avoid four arrests and one death warrant.

Manute Bol defending the hoop in the college, 1980s. Listed at 7 ft 6 or 7 ft 7 tall, Bol was one of the tallest players in the history of the NBA

Jewish-German Otto Richter, along with his wife, wearing placards protesting the man’s deportation from the US back to Nazi Germany in 1936, arguing his torturous death would be inevitable if forced to return. He was eventually deported to Belgium instead.

Douglas Kirkland taking Marilyn Monroe’s picture, 1961.

On this day in 1995, the infamous London gangster Ronnie Kray died. Along with his brother, Reggie he was given a 30 year prison sentence in 1969 for the murder of a rival gang member. His funeral (pictured here) is considered a traditional East End funeral

Hal Fischer published a monograph in 1977 with the title Gay Semiotics based on pictures taken in San Francisco, especially Castro Street and Haight Ashbury. In these images he explains the complex codes adopted by gay men of the time.

These are two examples of the prosthetic work that Anna Coleman Ladd completed during WW1. Her creations worn by wounded soldiers with life changes injuries and thus enabled them to integrate back into society without feeling they ought to hide from public view. More examples in the comments.

Below is Lt William Calley, on trial during the investigation of the My Lai massacre which took place on this day in 1968. Calley was convicted of 22 counts of murder, and sentenced to life in jail. He served a week in jail and then Nixon intervened, he was released from house arrest in 1974.

Below is Lt William Calley, on trial during the investigation of the My Lai massacre which took place on this day in 1968. Calley was convicted of 22 counts of murder, and sentenced to life in jail. He served a week in jail and then Nixon intervened, he was released from house arrest in 1974.