ZUM4842973: May 05, 1953 - A relay station was set up near the Dutch German border at Hinsbeck in cooperation of the North West German Broadcasting Corporation and the Federal Post for the television transmission of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth to Germany. This relay station will close the gap between the British and the German television system. English, Belgian and Dutch transmitting stations will transfer the coronation to the concave mirror of the 40-meters high Relay-station and will be transmitted from there to the North West German system. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4843204: May 05, 1953 - The italin child prodigy iannela De Margo receives her first holy communion in Rome: Giannella De Margo the child music prodigy who recently toured Europe conduction some of the most famous orchestras - attended her first holy communion at st. Ivrss church in Rome - during the week-end-and is seen here receiving the blessing from a mother superior. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841425: May 05, 1953 - Thirty-one Sicilian bandits sentenced Giuliano gang's six hundred years.: After a trial lasting nearly four months, the Central Court of Palermo, Sicily, recently delivered its verdict, which took eight days to reach in the case of 45 men accused of serious crimes while members of the gang of Salvatore Giuliano, the bandit who, after terrorizing Sicily for six years, was shot dead by the police in 1950. Thirty-one of the accused bandits were found guilty of complicity in 11 murders, 15 attempted murders, 14 kidnapping and a number of other serious crimes. They received sentences of imprisonment two of them penal servitude for life - which totalled 600 years. The other 14 were ac ~ uitted, though nine of them still have to serve long sentences for previous crimes. Some of the guilty are still in hiding and were sentenced in their absence / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841440: May 05, 1953 - Revival of 13th. Century fair at Cheam.. the” Queen” tries out the stocks... Evan the stocks were to be seen at the 13th. Century Fair which was opened at the Park Road, Cheam, Surrey, this morning, by Sir Sidney Marshall M.F. for Sutton and Cheam, followed by the crowning of 27 year old Mrs.Eunice Pitcher of Chem / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4841536: May 05, 1953 - Westminster Technical College Students Prepare to Help in the Queen's Kitchens.: Eleven boys from the Westminster Technical College, Vincent Square, Are to give a hand in the Queen's Kitchens, on Coronation Day. the boys were selected by Mr. J. Vincent head of the College Cookery School - and he decides that it was a job for the boys - as it would probably prove too great a strain for the girl student / Bridgeman Images
ELD4842446: Campagne de France: “” Father Lathuille, from the cabaret restaurant located on Avenue de Clichy in the Batignolles district, distributes food to defensers of the Barriere de Clichy, commissioned by General Moncey during the Battle of Paris in March 1814” (Battle of Paris, 1814: the famous cabaret owner pere Lathuille (to Lathuile) gives free food) the soldiers of the french imperial guard, defenders of the Clichy barrier) Engraving by Alexis Martin, 1890 Private collection / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4843507: May 05, 1953 - Sugar Magnate's Daughter weds. The Wedding took place today at St.Paul's Knightsbridge, between 21-year old Miss Virginia Tate, daughter of sugar magnate, Mr. George Vernon Tate, cchairman of Tate & Lyle, and Mr. Michael Belmont, grandson of banker Lord Kindersley / Bridgeman Images