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ZUM4908452: Jan. 16, 1954 - 16-1-54 The winner takes the penultimate fence racing at Sandown Park. Keystone Photo Shows: - 0/00usyeaaie 0/00Uidomata- 0/00usyeaaiaa? (7) ridden by Corbett seen as he takes the last but one fence in the Mildmay Memorial Steeple Chase at Sandown Park this afternoon. Second was - 0/00usyeaaie 0/00uired Rube- 0/00usyeaaiaa? with - 0/00USYEAIE 0/00UISHAEF- 0/00USYEAIAA? third / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904505: Jan. 24, 1977 - Giscard d'Estaing will preside over the inauguration ceremony of the new European Palace on January 28 in Strasbourg. It was built to house the Ministers Council, the Parliamentary Assembly, and the secretarial department of the European Council whose seat is in Strasbourg / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904624: Jan. 01, 1954 - Preparing To Drop Envelopes Into The Sea - Admiralty Take Part In Oil Pollution Research: As a contribution to the campaign against the pollution of the beaches by oil residue jettisoned by ships - 10,000 plastic envelopes are to be dropped by aircraft of Coastal Command over a radius of approx 500 miles from the Bay of Biscay to a point half way between the Hebrides and Iceland. The envelopes will drift ashore in time - and the finders are asked to complete the enclosed cards stating time and place of finding etc. and send it to the National Institute of Oceanography, nr. Goda ~ ming, Surrey. Each card returned carries an award of 2/6d. or its equivalent in foreign currency. The cards will be numbered and the date and position at which each was dropped will be recorded. It will thus be possible to work out the approximate speeds and directions of the currents - which will give a lead as to the directions taken by oil dropped from ships in various points. Instructions on the cards will be printed in eight different languages, 2,000 are to be dropped in early Spring; Autumn and winter this year - and 4,000 in early Summer / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904748: May 07, 1977 - May 7th 1977 Seven International Leaders at Downing Street Summit Conference - The Downing Street Conference started today with seven International Leaders taking part. They are Prime Minister Callaghan, President Carter of America, President Giscard d'Estaing of France, Mr. Trudeau of Canada, Signor Andreotti of Italy, Chancellor Schmidt of West Germany, and Mr. Fukuda of Japan. They will discuss how to pull the industrial world out of its troubles / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904842: Jan. 01, 1954 - Lt. Gen. Sir Otto Lund to tour West Indies: Lt. Gen Sir Otto Lund. K.B.E., D.S.O., Commissioner-in-Chief, St. John Ambulance Brigade, leaves London Airport tomorrow, for a tour of inspection in the British West Indies. His prime object is to urge expansion and to endeavour to see that it was carried out as quickly and as thoroughly as possible / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4910263: Feb. 02, 1954 - Greek prisoners Of War Return From Other Side Of Iron Certain Hostages From Hungary: A party of 501 Greek prisoners aboard the s.s. Miaculis, from Venice. These people were living in villages near the boarder and were forced across the frontier behind the Iron curtain between the years 1947-49. A total of 1231 are being returned to Greece from Hungary / Bridgeman Images