ZUM4879619: Sep. 09, 1953 - The” October festival” procession 1953 at Munich. At the first Sunday of the 'October Festival' the procession too place as usual, and went through the main streets of Munich. Only a few hours later when all the people enjoying the festival were sitting in the beer pavillions it began to rain. This year also a delegation from the USA, the Bavarian club from Newark, New Jersey (our picture) h d a splenderous festival car in this procession. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4907373: Jan. 01, 1954 - Gelignite Used To Destroy Ancient Steeple In Hamilton - Scotland: About 1,000 people, including many school children watched the destruction of the Old Tolbooth Steeple, in Muir Street, Hamilton, Scotland recently - with the aid of gelignite charges... The steeple bell had tolled out the hours for 312 years but the foundations of the steeple were eaten away and it menaced a nearby housing scheme / 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