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ZUM4948010: Jan. 01, 1955 - Ladies cup winner in Monte Carlo Rally home. Winner of the ladies cup in the Monte Carlo Rally -Sheila Van Damm, and her two co-drivers, Mrs. Ann Hall, of Huddersfield, and Mrs. Francose clarke, of Rugby, arrived home by air today Ferriyfield airport, near Lydd, Kent today - with their sunbeam -Talbot car / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948027: Jan. 01, 1955 - Unshering in a New Era of transportation, the atomic powered submarne USS Nautilus, is pictured underway on her initial sea trial in Long Island Sound on January 17, 1955. The historic moment came at 11:01 a.m. when the Nautilus under nuclear power cast off and got underway from the Croton, Conn, dock of her builder, the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation. Public Health Department, Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948085: Jan. 01, 1955 - Two Injured As B.E.A. Viscount Airliner Crashes On Take-Off At London Airport. The pilot and one passenger were injured when a B.E.A. Viscount airliner crashed on the take-off at London Airport. The aircraft had taken a wrong turning on to a disused runway in mistake for the main take-off runway during the fog. It crashed into a barrier and ended up between a hangar and some builder's huts. One engine was thrown on to a stack of scrap metal. There were 25 passengers aboard the aircraft including two children. Keystone Photo Shows: - The tangled mass of steel - which is all that remained of one of the Viscount engines after the crash at London Airport / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948280: Jan. 01, 1955 - Cyrys State Of Emergency - Terrorists Throw Bomb During Caledonia Ball in Nicosia: A few hours after Field Marshall Sir John Harding - Governor and Commander-in-Chief in Cyrus had declared a state of emergency in the terror ridden island of- a bomb was thrown into at ballroom at the Ledra Palace Hotel, Nicoeia - during the Caledonia Ball. A number of people were injured. The bomb was aimed at the top table usually occupied by Sir John Harding - but he was not present at the tire / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948310: Jan. 01, 1955 - Actress Sculptor Prepares For Her Exhibition Of” Personalities At Prime Minister's Conference” Miss Fredda Brilliant the actress sculptor wife of Herbert Marshall was to be seen at her St. John's Wood Studio this morning preparing for the exhibition of her work which is to be opened at the A.I.A. Galleries by Krishna Menon next week. The exhibition will include busts of some of the important personalities at the Prime at the Prime Ministers Conference, Brilliant, Fredda (1903-99) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4945133: Nov. 11, 1954 -” Dickens fair”.: A” Dickens fair”, organized by the Southwark Old People's Welfare Committee, is being held today at the.: Photo shows (L to R): Alec Winterton, as Tommy Traddles; Miss Dorothy Coward, Is, 18, as Rose Maley, from Oliver twist; Miss June Taylor, 24, as Estella, from Great Expectations; Miss Edith Coward, 17, as Tilda Price, from Nicholas Nickleby, and Raymon Binks, as David Copperfield / Bridgeman Images