ZUM4900046: Dec. 12, 1953 - Exhibition of Fine Art in London Portrait of Admiral Lord Cunningham.: Many well known personalities were to be seen attending the preview of the” Courier” Exhibition of Fine Art - held at the Royal Society of Painters in water Colours, Condult Street, London, this morning / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900427: Dec. 12, 1953 - International chess congress at Hasting. Alexander Tolush of Russia - plays: The International Chess Congress opened this morning at the White Rock Pavilion Hastings. Two Soviet players David Bronstein and Alexander Tolush are taking part. This is the first time that Russia has competed in 19 years / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4897271: Dec. 03, 1953 - Girl from Hiroshima is a bride: A Japanese girl who was in Hiroshima when the atom bomb hit it is a bride in one of England's prettiest villages. June Agnes Itose was leaving the railway station in Hiroshima when the bomb fell on August 8, 1945. She spent several weeks in hospital recovering from atomic disease. On Saturday she will wear white to marry 28 year old Allan Kline in the Baptist Chapel at Blockley, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucester. Allan and June with the British Commonwealth Forces headquarters at Kure / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4895810: Oct 2, 1970 - London, England, United Kingdom - DONOVAN (born DONOVAN PHILIPS LEITCH, 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music (notably calypso). PICTURED - Maida Vale, Paddington, London, England - Singer musician DONOVAN, 19, relaxing at Maida Vale home wearing a kaftan, with on the bottom half of a wax dummy / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4895619: Nov. 11, 1953 - Army radar team spots the thing R.A.F. pilots saw. From the war office last night came a report that a” Strange object” seen passing over Kent on November 3 was, in fact, tracked by an army reader set in South-east London. This was the first time that an official report has been made in this country about objects that have been and reported first by flying officers T.S. Johnson and C. Scythe, who were at 20,000 ft. in a Vampire jet on that day. When they reported this at west Malling air station, investigations were started. It was found that the war office had received a report a reader on this object from a Territorial Arny unit testing a reader set an El them - road, lee green, photo shows Mr. A.J. Jeffrey (technical strongman (right), and SCT. H. Waller, r.a. (left), a radar instructor, two of the radar team who spotted” The thing” seen discussing their experiences this morning. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4896096: Nov. 19, 1953 - BSM Britain Receives Award.: Regimental Sergeant Major Ronald Brittain, Coldstream Guards, owner of” the loudest voice in the British Army”, today received a bar to his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. He has been in the Army 36 years. The presentation was made by Major General E.S.B. Gaffney, GOC Aldershot District, at a passing out parade at Mons Officer Cadet School, at a passing out parade at Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot / Bridgeman Images