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EVB2925021: Third Session of the Central Executive Committee of Soviet Union opened Jan. 23, 1933 in Moscow. Standing is Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Central Executive Committee. To right of Kalinin: Lazar Kaganovich, Sec. of the Moscow Committee of the CP; and Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the CP; Others in the picture are Grigory Petrovsky, Pres. Of the C.E.C. of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Jan Rudsutak, Chrm. Of the Workers and Peasants Inspection / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925023: Soviet Union honors border guards who fought Japanese-Manchurian troops, c. Dec. 1935-March 1936. Mikhail Kalinin (center), President of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, and Vlas Chubar (far left, seated), Vice Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the USSR / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925049: Richard H. Ranger American electrical engineer, sound engineer, and inventor. He demonstrated his new electric organ which uses loudspeakers instead of organ pipes. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Ranger with an Oscar in 1956 for his development of the tape recorder which improved the synchronization of film and sound / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925059: House Speaker Sam Rayburn, holding President Franklin Roosevelt's request for billion. On March 12, 1941, the day after passage of the Lend-Lease Act, Roosevelt's personally signed letter asked for an a immediate appropriation to produce 'every gun, plane, and munition of war that we possibly can' for the democracies of the world. Representative Clifton A. Woodrum, Virginia, at right / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925088: Boris Pasternak, Russian writer was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. When historical novel, 'Dr. Zhivago' was refused publication in the USSR, it was smuggled into Western Europe and published in 1957. The Soviet government pressured him to decline the Prize, but his descendants accepted it his name 1988 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925092: Brazilian soccer star Pele waves the Jules Rimet Cup from an open car on Paris' Champs Elysees. March 30, 1971. In the background is the Arc de Triomphe. Pele played a friendly soccer match at which Bridget Bardot blew the opening whistle and the Foreign Legion provided the band / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925140: Jean Aker, in court testified about the status of her marriage to Rudolph Valentino. June 5, 1922. Valentino married Alla Nazimova on May 13, 1922 before his divorce was legally final. With Valentino charged with bigamy, the couple had their marriage annulled and separated for a year. They remarried in 1923 and divorced in 1925 / Bridgeman Images