ZUM4872580: Aug. 12, 1953 - 12.8.53 400 killed in Greek earthquakes - At least 400 people have been killed and hundreds injured in three days of earthquakes in the Greek island of Cephalonia. Yesterday was the worst yet. Towns and villages were wrecked and many thousands made homeless in the neighbouring island of Ithakis / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873584: Tue 03, 1953 - Electrical Housecraft Advisors Conference in London... Visitor from Denmark... Many modern methods of cooking electrically were demonstrated this morning at the Assembly Hall, Royal Empire Society, London - at the Annual Conference of Electrician Housecraft Advisors and Senior Demonstrators - which was opened by Lord Citrine. Keystone Photo Shows: Left to right: Mrs. Scalian of the Jackson Electric Company, London - and Miss E. Lasson Anderson of Copenhagen - talk over the merits of an electric show - at the Conference This morning. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873643: Aug. 17, 1953 - Hildegarde Neff her for Premiere. German actress, Hildegarde Neff, has arrived in London to attend Next Wednesday's gala opening of her been called” The sexiest of the year”. For the London showing, some of the shots have been out from the film including one of Miss Neff posing in the nude to have her pictures painted. She is in London on her way to Hollywood / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873291: Aug. 15, 1953 - Greek Earthquake Disaster Latest Pictures: Six days after the first shocks, Argostoli, Capitol og the Greek Earthquake Islands of Cepahalonia, is still burning. Latest figures are that 1,000 people have been killed, 4,000 ijured and 10, 000amde homeless / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873726: Tue 03, 1953 - QUEEN JULIANA ARRIVES FOR FUNERAL OF QUEEN MARY. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: QUEEN JULIANA of Holland (1909-2004) being greeted by THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, (Philip Mountbatten, Prince of Greece and Denmark, did 1921) as she left the plane after her arrival at Northolt this evening to attend the funeral of Queen Mary (Mary de Teck, 1867-1953) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873892: Aug. 19, 1953 -” Hey dad, wait a minute...” calls the six year old Kim, dressed in trapper clothes, to his father, famous American actor Broderick Crawford as he exits the subway with his wife. His young son then snaps a picture of the two as they tread onto Kurf? rstendamm. Broderick Crawford arrived in Berlin for the first time in the post-war period to film for the movie” Night People. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873773: Aug. 18, 1953 - 18-8-53 Preparations for Model Engineer Exhibition. Keystone Photo Shows: The Model Engineer Exhibition which opens tomorrow at the Horticultural Hall is interesting to both young and old and here is Mr. Gentry, aged 82, of Clapham, studying a steam traction engine. / Bridgeman Images