Cassettes and CDs by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor are flattened by a pavement roller on New York City's Avenue of the Americas, October 21, 1992. The recordings, donated by unhappy record fans, were collected by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, which planned to deliver the crushed remains to the singer. In 1992, O’Connor destroyed a photo of Pope John Paul II on U.S. national television. The pushback was swift, turning the late Irish singer-songwriter’s protest of sеx abuse in the Catholic Church into a career-altering flashpoint. (Photo by Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo)





A crowd gathers around a personnel carrier as some people climb aboard the vehicle and try to block its advance near Red Square in downtown Moscow, Russia, on August 19, 1991. The August 1991 coup that briefly ousted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed in just three days, precipitating the breakup of the Soviet Union that plotters said they were trying to prevent. Former Soviet leader Gorbachev has died Tuesday Aug. 30, 2022 at a Moscow hospital at age 91. (Photo by Boris Yurchenko/AP Photo/File)





Supporters of presidential candidat Leonid Kravchuk hold his effigy during a pro-independence rally, on November 30, 1991 in Kiev, held before the vote for a referendum and the first presidential elections shedulded for December 1, 1991. Ukraine was proclamed as an independent democratic state on August 24, 1991 by Ukrainian Parliament. (Photo by Sergey Supinski/AFP Photo)





In this early Sunday, August 31, 1997 file photo, police services prepare to take away the car in which Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales, died in Paris, in a car crash that also killed her companion Dodi Fayed, and chauffeur. It has been nearly 25 years since Princess Diana died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo/File)





The body of the founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin lies in a sarcophagus October 26, 1993 in the Red Square mausoleum in Moscow. The Kremlin said that Lenin's embalmed body would stay in its mausoleum for the time being, and Moscow authorities pledged its eventual removal would be orderly and dignified. (Photo by Vladimir Persianov/Reuters)





A policeman guards the wreckage of the Tupolev 144 that crashed during the Paris Air Show, killing all six on board and eight on the ground, destroying 15 houses in Goussainville, near Le Bourget airport, 04 June 1973. The Tupolev Tu-144 was the first Soviet supersonic transport aircraft, constructed under the direction of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau headed by Alexei Tupolev. (Photo by AFP Photo)





The Russian flag flies over the Kremlin between the spires of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, on Thursday, December 26, 1991. After Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stepped down on Dec. 25, 1991, people strolling across Moscow's snowy Red Square on the evening of Dec. 25 were surprised to witness one of the 20th century’s most pivotal moments – the Soviet red flag over the Kremlin pulled down and replaced with the Russian Federation's tricolor. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo/File)





British troops, in foreground, clash with demonstrators in a Catholic dominated area of Belfast, Northern Ireland on May 5, 1981. As King Charles III arrived in Northern Ireland for the first visit since his mother’s death elevated him to the throne, the voices of Belfast offered a sharp reminder of the country’s complicated bloody political realities. (Photo by AP Photo, File)





A table with some documents and glasses are seen after the signing of an agreement terminating the Soviet Union and declaring the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Viskuli, Belarus, on December 8, 1991. The agreement by the leaders of the Soviet republics of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus dealt the final, deadly blow to the USSR. (Photo by Yuri Ivanov/AP Photo/File)





Actress and model Kitty Dolan talks to another showgirl dancer in the dressing room at The Tropicana Hotel circa 1958 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images)





A supporter of Ukraine presidential candidate Levko Lukyanenko, a former political prisoner, carries campaign posters in Kiev on Saturday, November 30, 1991. The Ukraine presidential election and independence referendum on Sunday will be a key showdown in Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev?s efforts to hold together the 12 remaining republics in a looser confederation. (Photo by Liu Heung Shing/AP Photo)





Indian Black Cat commandos escort civilians outside the Parliament House as half a dozen armed men stormed the complex in New Delhi, India, Dec. 13, 2001. India on Friday, August 12, 2022, criticized China's decision to block the imposition of U.N. sanctions sought by it and the United States against Abdul Rauf Azhar, the deputy chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Pakistan-based extremist group designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organization. India says Azhar was involved in the planning and execution of numerous terror attacks, including the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. (Photo by John McConnico/AP Photo/File)





Bodies are removed from the U.S. Marine base near Beirut airport on October 23, 1983, following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base and caused a huge death. Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region. (Photo by Hussein Ammar/AP Photo)





British Army Riot Squad troops wearing gas masks, bullet proof vests and wielding two foot long batons during a demonstration in Belfast, Northern Ireland on October 2, 1969. It has been 25 years since the striking of the Good Friday Agreement, the landmark peace accord that ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, a period known as “the Troubles”. (Photo by Peter Kemp/AP Photo)





A female motorcycle cop directs traffic wearing crash helmet, Haywarket Square, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images)