"Charles Moore put faces on the civil rights movement for a nation to see. His photographs for Life magazine reached half of the nation. Images of snarling police dogs, water cannons, the Ku Klux Klan and Bloody Sunday helped spur the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Moore died March 11 at the age of 79 of kidney disease and other ailments."

"Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed standing in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June 1989. The most widely known photograph was taken by Jeff Widener of the Associated Press, from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away."

In 1911, custodian Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, intending to return it to its ancestral home of Italy.