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Milt T, Flickr // CC BY 2.0

On June 12, 1963, activist and civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot in his own driveway by Klansman Byron De La Beckwith. A bullet hole can still be seen in a kitchen wall in the home, which was declared a National Monument in 2019.

Emily Petsko
J. Malcolm Greany, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

The celebrated photographer—who was born on this day in 1902—once mutilated his own negatives. On purpose.

Jake Rossen