ZUM4841378: May 05, 1953 - They recently held a vacuum cleaning contest between men and housewives on well-known Jusgfernstieg in the center of Hamburg. Vnis contest proved that men were mach more perfect and faster than housewives. We are showing some snapshots of the site of the losore. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841425: May 05, 1953 - Thirty-one Sicilian bandits sentenced Giuliano gang's six hundred years.: After a trial lasting nearly four months, the Central Court of Palermo, Sicily, recently delivered its verdict, which took eight days to reach in the case of 45 men accused of serious crimes while members of the gang of Salvatore Giuliano, the bandit who, after terrorizing Sicily for six years, was shot dead by the police in 1950. Thirty-one of the accused bandits were found guilty of complicity in 11 murders, 15 attempted murders, 14 kidnapping and a number of other serious crimes. They received sentences of imprisonment two of them penal servitude for life - which totalled 600 years. The other 14 were ac ~ uitted, though nine of them still have to serve long sentences for previous crimes. Some of the guilty are still in hiding and were sentenced in their absence / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841440: May 05, 1953 - Revival of 13th. Century fair at Cheam.. the” Queen” tries out the stocks... Evan the stocks were to be seen at the 13th. Century Fair which was opened at the Park Road, Cheam, Surrey, this morning, by Sir Sidney Marshall M.F. for Sutton and Cheam, followed by the crowning of 27 year old Mrs.Eunice Pitcher of Chem / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841196: May 05, 1953 - Final Dress Rehearsal for the Berkeley debutante dress show: wedding gonna by Dior: A final dress reheard was held this morning at the Berkley restaurant - for this afternoon's Berkeley Debutante Dress show to be held in aid of the N.S.P.C.G.- and in which debutantes are displaying styles by the famous Christian Dior. Keystone photo shows lady Roee Blithe were a white Organza wedding gown, gold embroidery and lilies. The bridal attendants, whose dresses are not by Dior - are (left) Wish Mary Anne Parker-Bonnee (7) and wins ~ ~ ~ Sarah Greenly aged 6. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841243: May 05, 1953 - Duke Inspects U.S. Atom Bomb Carrier: The Duke of Edinburgh climbs up int the giant RB. 36. the world's largest operational bomber, at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, yesterday, Bases. The Duke, who flew 400 miles in a Viking aircraft of The Queen's Flight, also inspected American troops at Bentwaters, Sussex and Burtonwood, Lancashire. At Brize Norton, he inspected gun sites and crews. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4842010: Second World War (1939-1945): an African American Women's Army Corps battalion is in charge of the entire Postal Service of the European Theater of Operations (ETO). A corporal defeated her canteen shortly after arriving at the temporary battalion headquarters. Photograph taken on an American base in Great Britain, February 1945. / Bridgeman Images