ZUM4841892: May 05, 1953 - Bing Crosby, American's hit singer No. 1 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

UTD4841914: French pantomime and clown Marcel Marceau, Germany 1980s. / Bridgeman Images

SOB4842054: Fernando Arrabal, May 8, 2007 , Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

SOB4842163: Guillermo Arriaga, September 24, 2010, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

GIE4842177: Portrait of the Italian writer Elisabetta Rasy. / Bridgeman Images

ETE4842182: Second World War (1939-1945): General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander) in conversation with Connecticut Republican Representative Clare Boothe Luce, a member of the US House of Representatives Defense Committee. Photograph taken in France in December 1944. / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4842261: May 05, 1953 - Opening of the battersea festival gardens.. American singer crowns the 'queen': Photo shows Eddie Fisher the American singer performs the task of Crowning Miss Sheila Handsley the Festival Queen - during the ceremonies of opening the Battersea Festival Gardens for the season - this afternoon. / Bridgeman Images

GIE4842267: Giovanni Raboni / Bridgeman Images

UTD4842290: DALIDA (German TV-Performance 'Arena der Sensationen', annees 1980 / Bridgeman Images

SOB4842362: Michel Aubry, September 6, 2010, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

ICA4842381: Candide, Satirique en N & B, 1964_11_26: President of the Republic, Reproduction - De Gaulle Charles - Illustration by Jacques Faizant (1918-2006), Faizant, Jacques (1918-2006) / Bridgeman Images

GIE4842416: Portrait of the Italian writer Pietro Citati. / Bridgeman Images

GIE4841764: Portrait of American writer Anita Shreve (born 1946). / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4842034: May 05, 1953 - LIFESAVER SARAH... SARAH - short for Search and Rescue and Homing - is a new radio device for saving air-crash survivors, shipwrecked seamen and stranded personnel in mountains, jungle and in desert. A radio beacon weighing only 20 ounces with a 32-ounce battery fitted to the survivor's life-jacket, transmits a signal to guide searching aircraft. The stranded man pulls a ring which releases a 31-inch flexible aerial and starts the transmitter. Transmission can be maintained for 20 hours with a maximum range of 66 miles to an aircraft at 10,000 feet. A distress signal at see can thus be picked up by an aircraft within an area of 10,000 square miles. The signals are displayed on a cathode ray tube in the rescuing aircraft. The rescuing craft then” homes” on to the signal which suddenly vanishes when the aircraft is above the stranded man. A two-way speech unit provides means of verbal communication in between rescuer and survivor at close range. Keystone Photo Shows: - On left - SARAH, the new radio life - saving device, is seen before a water test, showing the oscillator and aerial containers. On right - SARAH is seen being demonstrated in water, with the” survivor” using his hand microphone, with erected aerial. / Bridgeman Images

GIE4842053: Portrait of the Italian writer Elisabetta Rasy. / Bridgeman Images

UTD4842081: Portrait de Veronique Sanson, compositeur interprete et pianiste francaise, debut des annees 1970 - / Bridgeman Images

GIE4842130: Portrait of the Italian writer Elisabetta Rasy. / Bridgeman Images

GRZ4842150: The funeral of Count VITTORIO CINI, economist. Venice 1977 / Bridgeman Images

GIE4842160: Portrait of the Italian writer Elisabetta Rasy. / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4842166: May 05, 1953 - British Canberra jet bomber sets up new world altitude record of over twelve miles. It has just been officially announced that the British Canberra jet Bomber, powered by two Bristol Olympus turbo - jet engines, and piloted by Ming Commander W.F. Gibb D.S.O., D.F.C. - on May 4th. Set up a new world altitude record for class C. aeroplanes. Observed by officials of the Royal Aero Club and the Federation Aeronatique Internationale - the Olympia Canberra took of from Filton Aerodrome and 14.32 hrs. and landed again at 15.33 hrs after cresting a new record of over 12 miles in height / Bridgeman Images

SOB4842282: Pierre Assouline, 27 October 2007, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4842309: May 05, 1953 - American Singer Has Reception At Prince Of Wales Theatre: A reception was held at the Prince of Wales Theatre, this afternoon for Eddie Fisher the American singer who is to appear at the London Palladium next week / Bridgeman Images

GIE4842349: Portrait of the Italian writer Pietro Citati. / Bridgeman Images

GIE4839121: Agota, Agata, Kristof / Bridgeman Images

SOB4839224: Benjamin Levesque, October 8, 2004, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4839279: Apr. 28, 1953 - Clare Booth Luce Presents Credibility Letters to de Gasperi / Bridgeman Images

SOB4839308: Benjamin Levesque, October 8, 2004, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

GIE4839379: Portrait of Elsa de Giorgi (1915 - 1997), Italian actress, photographed in 1996. / Bridgeman Images

SOB4839466: Hans-Peter (Hans Peter) Litscher, April 24, 2007, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

SOB4839511: Hans-Peter (Hans Peter) Litscher, April 24, 2007, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

GIE4839567: Portrait of François Dupeyron, French director Born in 1950. / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4839747: May 04, 1953 - Band turns out for Prisoner Hero. The band of the Royal Fusiliers and a contingmert of men, went to the Arnold Estate, Druid Road, Bermondaey, to pay an official welcome, attended by the Lady Mayoress of Bermondsey, to Private George Hodkinson, D.C.M., one of the prisoners released by the Communists / Bridgeman Images

GIE4839796: Portrait of Bernard Comment, Swiss writer, born in 1960. / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4839967: May 05, 1953 - H.M. The Queen presents new color to Grenadier guards: H.M. The Queen today represented how colors to the 1st. and 2nd. Batallions of the Grenadier Guards, at Buckingham Palace / Bridgeman Images

SOB4840008: Masha Meril, October 27, 2007, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images

SOB4842520: Patrick Autreaux, June 26, 2011, Bassouls, Sophie / Bridgeman Images