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ZUM4870343: Aug. 08, 1953 - Professor Piccard's” Bathysphere” is launched in Italy: Professor Piccard's” Bathysphere”, the vessel in which he hopes to explore the depths of the Tyrrhenean Sea, and set up a record dive of 13,000-ft., was launched at Castellamare dio Stabia, Italy. The vessel consists of two main parts - a cigar-shaped structure of watertight compartments which will house the special liquid which will be used for surfacing, and a lower part which is the actual sphere from which observations will be made / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870381: Aug. 08, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes first descent in his new” Bathysphere”: Professor Piccard the famous Swiss Belgian physicist was accompanied by his son Jacques when he newly designed bathysphere” Trieste”, at Castellamara di Stabia, near Naples. He hopes to reach a depth of 13,000 feet during experiments near the Islands of Ponza to study and photograph the sea bed. During these tests three dives of 40 feet, lasting a few minutes only were made / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870566: Aug. 08, 1953 - Sanders arrives home - Mr. Edgar Sanders, the British businessman who was freed from a Hungarian prison two days ago after serving nearly four years of a 13 years sentence, arrived at Croydon Airport this evening in a special plane, with his wife and three daughters who had flown to Austria to welcome him. Keystone Photo Shows: Mr. Edgar Sanders (centre), seen as he left the airport, after his arrival at Croydon. H/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870603: Jan 1, 1950 - North Korean Prisoners Of War Prepare Enclosure For New Arrivals.: North Korean captives seen as they clear ground for a new enclosure - making room for the constant flow of North Korean troops who are being captured - or give themselves up as the forces of the united nations forge ahead - clearing up the invaders from the North. These men are from an enclosure near Pusan, and are guarded by a South Korean Military Policeman. (exact date unknown) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870674: Aug. 08, 1953 - Edgar Sanders discharged from Hungarian imprisonment: the British tradesman Edgar Sanders who had been imprisoned for three years in Hungarian had been discharged and arrived in Vienna on his way back to Great Britain. At a press conference at the British Embassy he gave a sensational report / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870785: Jan. 1, 1950 - Istanbul, Turkey - Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL, ARISTOTLE ONASSIS, ATHINA ONASSIS and Lady CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL taking a car ride in Istanbul. ARISTOTLE SOCRATES ONASSIS - named after two Greek philosophers, went from being totally broke at age 21 to being a millionaire at age 23. After divorcing his first wife, he gained special prominence in the United States through his marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, widow of President John F. Kennedy. A controversial figure in world finance, Onassis was formerly the principal stockholder of the company that controlled the Monte Carlo casino. He was also the founder of Olympic Airways of Greece. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870823: Aug. 08, 1953 - East Germans Continue To Crowd Into The Western Zone For Free Food: In spite of the stringent restrictions placed upon them by the Soviet Authorities - East Germans continue to pour into the Western Zone to collect the free food being distributed to them by the American Authorities. The Volkspoliszei do everything they can do stop them collecting the food - and in many cases it is confiscated when they return to their home territory / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870973: Aug. 08, 1953 - Lord Mayor receives flood relief gift from Indonesia. The Indonesian Ambassador, Dr.Subandrio, went to the Mansion House today to hand over the papers for the delivery of the first shipment of a consignment of four tons of coffee and four tons of tea, from Indonesia, in aid of the Lord Mayor's Flood relief fund / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4871111: Aug. 08, 1953 - Chancellor at the Butts: Mr.A. Butler, the Chancellor of the exchequer, who is on holiday, smiles as he waits for the birds to rise. He is at the butts on the moors at Ma sham, Yorkshire, where, yesterday he was a member of Viscount Swinton's grouse shooting party on” The Glorious Twelfth ' / Bridgeman Images