ZUM4928960: May 05, 1954 - Actors as Lottery Salesmen: Daniel Gelin, Famous english screen and stage actors, and lovely screen star great garsun selling lottery tickets on the champselysees for the Benefit of the ex servicemen of Lecler's Division. The occasion was the annual ex festival organised by the ex servicemen in the Garden of Turnstiles / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929248: May 05, 1954 - Roger Bannister does it. Runs mile in under four minutes: Britain's Roger Bannister has done it. Last night he ran the fabulous four minute mile, a feat which the world's athletes have been trying to achieve for years, His time the three minutes 59.4 seconds. As he passed the post at Oxford's Iffley road track he was swept up in a mass of cheering, shouting spectators / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929514: May 05, 1954 - The Queen and the Duke Reunited with Children: H.M. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Tobruk and were reunited - after five months - with their children, Prince Charles and Princes Anne, abroad the Royal Yacht, Britannia. The Royal couple landed at EL aDem airport, Libya, after breakfasting at the airport they began the 18 mile car journey inspecting a Guard of Honour, after arriving at El Adam airport / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4934051: May 28, 1954 - 9 year old artist exhibits 'Abstract' paintings: 9 year old Patrick Jordan of Paris among his paintings now on show at the galerie D'Orsay ~ Paris. Patrick began paintings when he was 4 years old and had shown great talent in expression his ideas in a pure abstract style / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4933633: May 19, 1954 - Hunted Gunman shoots Himself.: London's day of terror from a mad gunman ended last night, when Mathan Goldberg, 27, an ex-Guardsman, died in hospital after shooting himself in the head in a taxi. Police had been issued with guns after Goldberg had shot three men- one fatally - on his revenge list of 22 Photo shows The boy and the dog who nearly got gunman, Goldberg. Three year old David Baldwin with Prince his puppy. Goldberg almost ripped over them as he fled after his third shooting / Bridgeman Images