ZUM4901200: Dec. 12, 1953 - Air Secretary Breaks The Sound Barrier: M. Louis Christiaens, The 63-Year-Old French Minister Of Air, Boarding The S.O. 4050 Vautour At Istres Aerudrome (Near Marseilles) Yesterday. Air Pilot Roland Galvany Who Was At The Wheel Broke The Sound Barrier With The Minister On Board The Plane / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900485: Dec. 12, 1953 - Princess Margaret goes to the Ice show and chats with comedian Norman Wisdom. H.R.H. Princess Margaret last evening attended a special gala performance of the” Sinbad the Sailor on Ice” show at London's Empress Hall. Proceeds of the performance went to the Endowment Fund of the girl guides Association of which the princess is Chief Ranger of the British Empire / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900661: Dec. 12, 1953 - The Sleeping Beauty ~ tight rope walker.: The Sleeping Beauty of the fairy-tale is a fragile Princess. But the Sleeping Beauty to be danced by Leslie Caron in the new English ballet” La Belle au Bois Dorman” is a gay little English wight-rope walker. Miss Caron's rope in the ballet, which is by Roland Pete and opens in London tonight - is a foot-wide plank / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4872469: Aug. 09, 1953 - The curiosity of these children was not to be denied as they peered through the glass at this troop of Indians who had come to Germany for the Karl May Festival. The troop only played for 20 minutes, which was a huge scandal, and the children chased the Indians all the way to the exhibition hall where they sought safety. Police had to calm down the raucous group of kids. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4872778: Second World War (1939-1945), Liberation of Metz, November 17, 1944: Soldiers of the 2nd Beat of 377th RI of the 95th US DI “” Victory Division””” pass the sign “” Metz”” at the north entrance of Woippy (WWII, Battle of Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France, 17th November 1944) Photography / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4901554: Dec. 15, 1974 - Nassau, West Indies - The President GISCARD D'ESTAING met the President GERALD FORD during his official visit in the West Indies. The picture shows President VALERY GISCARD D'ESTAING and President GERALD FORD shaking their hands at the Fort-De-France airport in West Indies. In the back is J.P. FOURCADE / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4901720: Dec. 12, 1953 - French Ballet Rehearsals At Stoll Theatre. “Sleeping Beauty” And The” Young Man”.: Rehearsals were held at the Stoll Theatre this morning of the Roland Petity Ballet” La Belle Au Bois Dormant” - with Leslie Caron a the Tight Rope Walker - and Sleeping Beauty / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4901915: Dec. 12, 1953 -” Teachers for Peace” Conference Opens. The Chairman Speaks.: The two day conference of the” Teachers for Peace” opened this afternoon at Holborn Hall. Many delegates who were to have attended - were refused permission to enter the country on the orders of the Home Secretary - Sir David Maxwell Fyfe / Bridgeman Images