Photo Of The Year 1955 - 2012

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1973: Democratically elected President Salvador Allende moments away from death during military coup at Moneda presidential palace in Chile. (By Orlando Lagos)

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1974: The Faces of Hunger. A mother comforts her child, both victims of drought. (By Ovie Carter)

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1975: A mother and her daughter are hurled off a collapsing fire-escape in an apartment house fire in Boston. (By Stanley Forman)

 

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1976: Palestinian refugees in district La Quarantaine. (By Françoise Demulder)

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1977: Police throw tear-gas at a group of chanting residents of the Modderdam squatter camp protesting against the demolition of their homes outside Cape Town. (By Leslie Hammond)

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1978: A demonstrator is engulfed in flames of the molotov cocktail he was about to throw at the police during protests against the construction of the New Tokyo International Airport. The original Narita Airport plan was unveiled in 1966. To acquire the initial land, the government had to evict protesting landowners. Violent clashes between the opponents and authorities resulted in 13 deaths, including five police officers. The new airport opened in May 1978. (By Sadayuki Mikami)

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1979: A Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp. (By David Burnett)

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1980: A starving boy and a missionary in Uganda. (By Mike Wells)

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1981: Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina orders everyone to remain seated and be quiet after armed Guardia Civil soldiers stormed the Assembly Hall of the Spanish Parliament. Three hundred deputies and cabinet members were in session to vote upon the succession of premier Suarez. They were released next morning after having been held hostage for almost 18 hours; the coup was a failure. (By Manuel Pérez Barriopedro)

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1982: The war in Lebanon: The aftermath of the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. (By Robin Moyer)

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1983: Kezban Özer (37) finds her five children buried alive after a devastating earthquake. At five o’clock in the morning she and her husband were milking the cows as their children slept. A few minutes later, 147 villages in the region were destroyed by an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter scale; 1,336 people died. (By Mustafa Bozdemir)

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1984: A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster. (By Pablo Bartholomew)

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1985: Omaira Sanchez (12) is trapped in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours she eventually lost consciousness and died of a heart attack. (By Frank Fournier)

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1986: Ken Meeks’ (42) skin is marked with lesions caused by Aids-related Kaposi’s Sarcoma. (By Alon Reininger)

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1987: A mother clings to a riot policeman’s shield at a polling station. Her son was one of thousands of demonstrators arrested because they tried to prove that the presidential election on December 15, which was won by the government candidate, had been rigged. (By Anthony Suau)