60+ Incredibly Powerful Photos Guaranteed to Make You Cry

These moments in history are for many a time gone by — but the real, raw emotions live on in the images. Take a look back at some of the most heart-wrenching and moving events to ever take place.

When Orville and Wilbur Wright took their historic flight in Kittyhawk, North Carolina, it changed the world and modern aviation forever. This image is often used in the context of technological achievements in the 20th century, but it also represents how an idea can be put into action with the right balance of hard work and determination.

A service is held in Hoboken, NJ, for American soldiers who died on the battlefields of France during World War I, circa 1920.

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Babe Ruth makes his 60th home run of the 1927 season at Yankee Stadium, a record that would remain unbroken for the next 34 years.

Mohandas Gandhi marches from his ashram in Sabermanti to the coastal town of Dandi to revolt against a British ban on making salt out of seawater. The march started on March 12, 1930 and ended on April 5, 1930, with thousands of people showing their support.

Amelia Earhart sits in the cockpit of her Lockheed Electra right before embarking on her second attempt to circle the equator. Earhart and her co-pilot Fredrick Noonan would not return from this voyage.

A view showing St. Mary's, Aldermanbury, surrounded by buildings that had been devastated by the Luftwaffe's incendiary bombing blitz during WWII.

The people of Warsaw, Poland, attempt to rise against the German troops and police that entered the ghetto to deport its inhabitants during WWII.

A group of United States Marines celebrate their victory over the Japanese forces following the battle at Iwo Jima.

U.N. Troops have a Christmas service near the frontline combat zone during the Korean War.

Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school. She was one of the nine Black students whose integration into Little Rock's Central High School was ordered by a Federal Court following legal action by the NAACP.

The view inside an operating room at Duke University, where surgeons use a heart and lung machine during a procedure.

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American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a Black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery.

Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn into the office of the presidency aboard Air Force One.

Outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington D.C., John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's coffin.

Antiwar demonstrators try flower power on soldiers blocking the Pentagon Building in Arlington, Virginia, on October 21, 1967.

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against the oppression of Black people in the United States. With heads lowered and fists raised in the Black power salute, they refuse to recognize the American flag and national anthem. Australian Peter Norman is the silver medalist.

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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. is photographed walking near Apollo 11's lunar module.

National Guardsmen open fire on students protesting the escalation of violence in Vietnam. Four are killed, eight others are wounded.

During the Christmas retail season, a young white boy kisses a Black Santa Claus on the cheek in an unidentified department store.

Protestors stand opposite Royal Ulster Constabulary police and British soldiers at a barricade in Northern Ireland, in response to the shooting of 14 civilians by British paratroopers one week prior.

Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes in record time, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown since 1948.

A mere 73 seconds into its maiden journey, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart mid-flight killing all 7 crew members aboard.

A man takes the destruction of the Berlin Wall into his own hands.

People celebrate on Capitol Hill after the senate passes the Americans with Disabilities Act.

A child famine victim in a feeding center.

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Prince William, Prince Harry, and their father visit memorial tributes to Princess Diana outside of Kensington Palace the week after she died in a car accident in Paris.

While visiting a Sarasota elementary school, President George W. Bush was reading a story to schoolchildren when Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him of the terror attacks that just took place in New York City.

A firefighter breaks down in the wreckage of the World Trade Center following a terrorist attack.

Have you ever seen a sunset so awe-inspiring that it brings a tear to your eye? This may not seem like one of those at first glance, but perhaps the knowledge that it's actually happening on Mars (captured by the Mars Rover Spirit) millions of miles from Earth might change your tune.

A woman is carried out of flood waters after being trapped in her home during Hurricane Katrina. Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds in excess of 135 mph.

Journalist Euna Lee (left) embraces her husband Michael Saldate (far right) and daughter Hana, while fellow journalist Laura Ling (second from left) greets husband Iain Clayton after being released from North Korea. Following talks in Pyongyang with former U.S. president Bill Clinton, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned Lee and Ling, who had been sentenced to hard labor for entering the country illegally.

A pelican attempts to clean off the oil from its body after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A dog sits for the second consecutive day next to the grave of Cristina Maria Cesario Santana at a cemetery in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janeiro, on January 15, 2011. Cristina Maria died in the week's catastrophic landslides in Brazil, which claimed some 550 lives in the country's worst flood disaster on record.

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Reniah Krause, 2, clings to her father Sgt. Joseph Krause after he and fellow soldiers return home from Afghanistan. More than 500 soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team came back that day following a year of heavy fighting and numerous casualties in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.

Riot police walk in the street as a couple kiss on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver broke out in riots after their home team lost in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals.

Phyllis Siegel (left) and Connie Kopelov celebrate after they become the first same-sex couple to wed at Manhattan's City Clerk's Office. On July 24, New York became the sixth state allowing same-sex marriages — this was the first day couples were allowed to obtain a license and participate in a wedding ceremony.

Amidst a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza on September 11, pauses at his late son's name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial.

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Robbie and Alyssa Parker stand outside a firehouse near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The Parkers' daughter, Emilie, was one of the 20 children killed in the shooting.

Police officers with their guns drawn hear a second explosion near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. The first explosion knocked down 78-year-old marathoner Bill Iffrig.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Shyla Smith (left) and love Courtney Burdeshaw laugh while waiting to get married at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau the day after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA. The high court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and ruled that supporters of California's ban on gay marriage, Proposition 8, could not defend it before the Supreme Court.

Little cancer survivor Miles Scott transforms into his dream superhero Batkid thanks to the Make-A-Wish foundation. San Francisco mayor Ed Lee awarded Batkid the key to the city of "Gotham" in the fall of 2013 and hearts melted worldwide.

A dog swims to safety during a massive flood in the Philippines in 2014. According to reports, a river in the eastern part of Manila burst its banks, leading to the evacuation of over 20,000 people.

DOMA plaintiffs Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis celebrate at San Francisco Gay Pride after the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the country.

President Barack Obama gets emotional as he delivers a speech on executive actions to reduce gun violence at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Daniele Santos holds her baby Juan Pedro, who has microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil. Microcephaly is a birth defect linked to the Zika virus where infants are born with abnormally small heads. The city of Recife and surrounding Pernambuco state remain the epicenter of the Zika virus outbreak, which spread to many countries across North and South America.

People hold candles during an evening memorial service for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shootings, at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida.

Omran Daqneesh, 5, of Syria sits alone in the back of the ambulance after he was injured during an air strike targeting the Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo.

President Barack Obama presents comedian Ellen DeGeneres with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Protesters take part in the Women's March in London, England. The Women's March originated in Washington D.C., but soon spread to across the globe, calling on all concerned citizens to stand up for equality and inclusion.

Saffiyah Khan smiles defiantly at a protester in the United Kingdom that had assembled to spout anti-Islamic rhetoric as a part of the EDL initiative.

People gather to see flowers and messages of support in St. Ann's Square in Manchester, northwest England, placed there in tribute to the victims of the May 22 terror attack at the Manchester Arena.

Irma Maldanado and her pets stand in what remains of her home in Corozal, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island.

Mourners turned out in droves to pay tribute to the lives lost during the Las Vegas shooting, which took place at the Mandalay Bay hotel during the Route 91 Harvest music festival. Fifty-eight people died and 546 people were injured.

These are the remains of the Tubbs Fire, which burned and destroyed parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties in Northern California in the fall. Twenty-two people died and 5,300 structures were reportedly destroyed.

Every year, Brazilians celebrate Children's Day to honor all of the country's little ones. In recent years, real window cleaners have dressed up as Marvel superheroes and scaled the outer walls of Hospital Infantil Sabará in São Paulo. In 2017, Superman and the Flash surprised countless kids in honor of their special day.

A rescue team member gets some canine assistance during the rescue efforts following the mudslides that devastated Southern California.

A student at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida mourns at the memorials outside of the school less than two weeks after a former student shot and killed three teachers and 14 kids.

Prince Harry lifts the veil over Meghan Markle's face during their wedding at St George's Chapel in Windsor.

A Honduran woman cries while holding her child after being denied entry at the border in Brownsville, Texas.

Crowds gather in Chiangrai, Thailand as Thai Navy SEALs rescue the boys soccer team and their coach from a collapsed cave.

Fans, friends, and family come together at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit to remember the life of Aretha Franklin as she's laid to rest at the age of 76.

Global warming is a hotly debated topic these days, but photographs of melting icebergs in Antarctica prove that our world is rapidly changing.

Local residents gather to observe the crash site after two trains (one passenger and the other commercial) collided in Pakistan. 11 people were killed and around 80 people were injured.