Astonishing moments of history

As the Titanic was sinking into the North Atlantic, 24-year-old stewardess Violet Jessop helped passengers into the lifeboats and rescued a baby whose parents were nowhere to be found. She soon made it into a lifeboat and survived the tragic ordeal. Four years later, Jessop was working for the Red Cross aboard the Britannic, the Titanic's sister ship, when it sank in the Aegean Sea. She had to jump out of her lifeboat as it was being sucked into the ship's massive propeller in order to survive.

1880- Newcastle, UK, Black Gate, close-up of the gateway with a woman leaning against a shop doorway.

Angela Luff could not attend the local 1953 Coronation party in Hortensia Road, Chelsea, London because she had measles. The organisers relented and said she could attend providing she sat a certain distance from the other partygoers.

 Rush Hour in Chicago, 1909.