ABBA's Benny, with birthday gift. 1982

Congressional Republicans publish teacher guidelines for enforcement of their new national high school bathroom gender confirmation regulations (2017)

Thought to date from Saxon times (500-1066 AD) the Great Staffordshire Bowl of Easement is thought to be the oldest continuously used toilet in England

A federal revenue agent inspects an illegal moonshine still captured during prohibition. 1926 (colorized)

First documented sighting of the homophobic dog (1971)

The last affordable home in all of North America, preserved in a museum in 1998

Chernobyl Disaster (1986)

Known as “the queen of Pelton Avenue," Jeanette Allen was a well-known prostitute who frequented politicians and civic leaders in her home state of Iowa. (colorized) (March 28, 1897)

Missionaries arriving in Japan to preach Christianity(1549)

Beginning of book burnings in Nazi Germany (1933)

French Queen Marie Antoinette is paraded around the streets of Paris shortly before her execution, October 16, 1893