ZUM4847702: Jan. 1, 1900 - Paris, France - Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan MATA HARI (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, 1876-1917) who was executed by firing squad for alleged espionage during World War I. The very name of Mata Hari has become synonymous with spying, espionage, intrigue, and sensuality. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4847092: May 18, 1953 - Queen of Tonga arrives for coronation.: Queen Salote of Tonga - the 20-stone 6 ft. 3ins. ruler from the South Seas, arrived in London today - to wait the Coronation. She is the only person in the British Commonwealth, apart from members of the Royal Family - who is entitles to be addressed “Your Majesty”. Queen Salote is to be a guest of the Government at St. James's Palace / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4835003: Apr. 04, 1953 - Seven Arrives from Korea: The seven men who have been interned in Korea for two years and eight months arrived by Hasting aircraft at the R.A.F Station, Abingdon today. They are CAPT: VYVYAN HOLT former British Minister in Seoul. Mr. Norman OWEN first Secretary of the British Minister in Seoul Mr. Philip Deane a war reporter; Father Thomas Quinlan the Irish Missionary; Commissioner Herbert Lord of the Salvation Army; Bishop Alfred Cooper an Anglican Missionary and Mr. George Blake British Vice Consul at Seoul / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4834635: Apr. 04, 1953 - King's Troops Of The F.W.G. At Rehearsal Major Weldon Gives Instruction: The King's Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery was to vb seen rehearsing at Wormwood Scrubs this morning for their public displays this year. A new morning's carried out by six horses with limber and a thirteen ponder gun - in which they charge over a three foot brushwood fence. The leads, middle and wheel horses jump independently to gun and limber being dragged over the fence / Bridgeman Images