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The cover of TIME Magazine for September 14, 2001 -- published with a black border.

“The Falling Man”, Associated Press (09/11/2001). At 9:41am, an AP photographer captured a man falling headfirst from the upper floors of the WTC North Tower. Though officially unknown, he would become a powerful symbol of all unidentified victims of the 9/11 attacks.

"Special effects" in Conan the Destroyer (1984)

A father desperately tries to shield his child as they huddle behind a barrel under a rain of bullets. 26 years later the image of Palestinian boy Muhammad al Durrah and his father remains an iconic and haunting symbol of childhood innocence and parental love trapped in conflict

Edna Cintron is possibly one of the most well known people to die on 9/11 apart from the man in the 'Falling Man' picture. Edna was trapped in the North tower and made her way to the open gash were she could look out. May she rest in peace.

Baltimore residents cleaning their famous marble steps. The white marble steps in these row houses used to be the city's badge of pride and one of their most distinctive symbols

Photos of Tom Cruise from a little-known gay magazine called Parlée have resurfaced 45 years later, along with claims that he tried to suppress the issue. (1981)

Legendary actor Sir Christopher Lee posing alongside his wife, Birgit Krøncke, who he was married to for 50 yrs, in 1966. Christopher Lee met Rasputin's assassins, was a RAF intelligence officer in WWII, spoke 9 languages, was Ian Fleming's cousin, and was the only actor to meet J.R.R. Tolkien.

Mel Brooks and his future wife Anne Bancroft celebrating the news learned that she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker on April 9, 1963. They would marry the following year and stay together until her passing in 2005

Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä with his dog Kille (1961). Nicknamed ‘The White Death’, he was credited with 505 confirmed kills during WW2.