ZUM4875950: Sep. 09, 1953 - Opening of the Colchester oyster season.: The Colchester oyster season was officially opened today. The opening proclamation aboard the” Native” followed by the Loyal Toast and the hauling of the first dredges of the Season by the Mayor, alderman Miss L.E. Sanders, A.R.R.C., J.P / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873892: Aug. 19, 1953 -” Hey dad, wait a minute...” calls the six year old Kim, dressed in trapper clothes, to his father, famous American actor Broderick Crawford as he exits the subway with his wife. His young son then snaps a picture of the two as they tread onto Kurf? rstendamm. Broderick Crawford arrived in Berlin for the first time in the post-war period to film for the movie” Night People. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4874013: Second World War (1939-1945): island of Huon, New Caledonia (French overseas community), 1942, soldiers of a reconnaissance group of the 23rd US “American Division””” captured a sea turtle to be offered to Major General Alexander Patch (?) , the Commander of the Allied Forces in New Caledonia - Photography 1940 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881189: Sep. 09, 1953 - Adenauer sleeps while Ollenhauer listens. While CDU Party Chairman Adenauer was asleep in bed in Rhoendorf, SPD Party Chairman Ollenhauer stayed up in Bonn with his friends to listen to the results of the federal election. Writers Vosnessensky and Elsa Tr / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881208: Sep. 10, 1953 - 10-9-53 First Comet Baby - The first jet baby, Tony Sabbag, was born of a Moorish mother in a comet flying from Dakar to Casablanca on the Paris run. Mother and son are doing well. Keystone Wire Photo Shows: Air hostess carrying the new born baby, after its birth in the Comet. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881225: Sep. 10, 1953 - Lucky” Lithgow will probably attack Duke's Air Speed record: A new air speed record attempt will soon be made in Super marine Swift. It was learned at Farnborough today that the pilot will probably be Test Pilot M.J. Lithgow and the attempt will be made at Castel Benito in Tripoli. In order to set up an official record, Lithgow would have to average almost 735 mph. The present record (subject to confirmation) is 727.6 mph, which Neville Duke set up last Monday / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881372: Sep. 13, 1953 - Solti to America. General music director Georg Solti said goodbye this afternoon to Frankfurter Rhein Main airport for severe-weeks-long tour through the United States. A visa to the United States had been denied him several weeks ago, because he was said to have associated with a communist front organization in Munich, however this reason for impediment later proved to be invalid. Solti beamed before his departing flight as he showed the journalists his pass with the hard-earned visa. / Bridgeman Images