ZUM4905436: Jan. 01, 1954 - Thirty-five people in comet Air Liner Crash. Stewardess who took the place of her friend. Thirty five people (29 passengers and 6 crew) lost their lives then a B.O.A.C. Comet Airliner crashed into the sea in flames in the Mediterranean, soon after leaving Rome yesterday. Included in the dead was 23 year old stewardess Miss Elaine Baker of Southern Rhodesia - who was taken ill in Karachi with ear trouble / Bridgeman Images
ETE4905479: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Chateau-Thierry (Marne) beginning September 1944: After the liberation of the city on 29 August 1944 by elements of the 7th US DB, two American officers in front of the Memorial to the Soldiers of the 3rd US Division who fought on the Marne in July 1918 which was very damaged by the fighting / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904039: Jan. 01, 1954 - Rally Birthday-Biggest-ever parade through the streets of Cairo.: Yesterday, the first anniversary of the foundation of the Liberation Rally was celebrated by a imposing ceremony in the Republican Square, with the biggest ever Parade in Egypt. A total of 35,000 members of the National Guard and Youth organisation took part / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904128: Jan. 01, 1954 - World Famous Boxer Gets 'The Bird' Max Schmeling and the stork.: A Stork was recently found in an exhausted condition by a poor workman - near his home in Munich recently. The bird was apparently not able to keep up with its companions in the annual flight to while - and then issued a notice - looking for a home for it. Max Schmeling the one time boxing champion offered to care for it - and it is now making a home - with Max / Bridgeman Images
ETE4916157: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Mourmelon (Marne) France 4 June 1945: According to the Yalta agreements, Sovietic nationals are returned to the Russian Zone. Former prisoners of war and labour deportees are about to embark on the first C47 that will take them to the Sovietic area of occupation / Bridgeman Images
ETE4916166: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Charleroi (Belgium) 12 August 1945: At the Cavalry Barracks, before each departure by train of some of the 1500 displaced persons (DP) from work or other who originate from Union Sovietique to the Sovietic zone in Germany, they wield emblems or of the Sovietique Union / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4916232: Feb. 23, 1954 - Mayor Kolb received the delegates from Frankfurt, USA - Kentucky today in R? Wed, Mr. Jack Hulette and his wife. They gave him the golden key to the Whiskey-House in Frankfurt and the certificate titling him “Colonel of Kentucky.” The” Colonel of Kentucky” is a legendary figure from the Civil War, Pictured: Mr. Hulette presents Dr. Kolb (left) a certificate and a figure of the” Colonel of Kentucky / Bridgeman Images
ETE4916372: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Desert Libyan Middle East July 30, 1943: Before leaving to bomb the oil installations of Ploest (Romania), General Lewis Brereton (CG of the US Air Forces in the Middle East) explains their mission to the crews of a bombing group of the 9th USAAF who fly on B24 Liberators / Bridgeman Images