On This Day in History - May 1st, 1931. President Herbert Hoover officially dedicated the Empire State Building in New York City.

(📷 Bernard Hoffman, 1941/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Venice, Italy draws over 30 million visitors a year, and for good reason.

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(📷 Dmitri Kessel, 1952/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Students during a tumbling class at Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, California - 1946.

(📷 Martha Holmes/LIFE Picture Collection)

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A woman attending the Metropolitan Opera's 61st season in New York City, New York, 1944.

(📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Mark Kauffman captured the so-called “Coca-Colonization” of Coke's formal introduction to France. Click below to see initial reactions to Coca-Cola coming to France!

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(📷 Mark Kauffman/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Joseph Carl Boudreaux laughing while his new puppy yawns, 1949.

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(📷 George Silk/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Enjoy the view of our 'blue marble' from the Apollo 11 Space Mission in 1969.

(📷NASA/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Large group of female students at the University of New Hampshire, with arms outspread, preparing to exercise in November 1942.

(📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Professional model Janet MacLeod wearing a veiled hat designed by American milliner Lilly Dache, 1937.

(📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection)

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View of the temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, at Abu Simbel, 1947. 🇪🇬

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(📷 Eliot Elisofon/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Thoroughbred horses grazing at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky - 1968.

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(📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Rehearsal for the NBC-TV special 'Broadway of Lerner & Loewe', with Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Maurice Chevalier, Robert Goulet, and Stanley Holloway - 1962.

(📷 Leonard McCombe/LIFE Picture Collection)

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On This Day in History - April 15, 1947. Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in Major League Baseball at age 28.

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Man working in a wood factory in the northwestern United States, 1939.

(📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection)

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View of Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River in southern Africa, 1966.

(📷 Priya Ramrakha/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Ray Charles singing, with arms outstretched, during a performance at Carnegie Hall - New York, 1966.

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(📷 Bill Ray/LIFE Picture Collection)

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Actress Grace Kelly reading a script during a break in filming for her role as Georgie in 'The Country Girl', April 1954.

(📷 Ed Clark/LIFE Picture Collection)

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LIFE Cover from April 1943 of Lieutenant John Hancock Spear kissing his new bride, Ester while saying goodbye at Penn Station before he returns to Camp Blanding, FL.

At the height of the Second World War, LIFE's Alfred Eisenstaedt captured the Heartache of Wartime Farewells -…

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Sweeping views of pink petunias and a rear-view mirror glimpse of an abandoned school, California, 1962.

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(📷 Ralph Crane/LIFE Picture Collection)

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