ZUM4907116: Jan. 01, 1954 - Italian Speed Boat Ace Attempts to Set Up New World Record. Mario Verga Italy's speed boat King just failed to set up a new world speed record for” No Limit” motor boats - owing to engine trouble in his specially constructed Alfa - Romeo speed boat which is powered with two 1,500 c.m engines... Keystone Photo Shows: Mario Verga's speed boat seen during the unsuccessful attempt on the Iseo Lake, Northern Italy / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4908273: Jan. 14, 1954 - 35 killed in comet disaster, Wreckage brought ashore: Part of the wreckage of the Comet jet airliner, which crashed in the Mediterranean, with a loss of 35 lives, seen being brought ashore at Porto Azzorro, Isle of Elba. The plans crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Rome / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4908285: Mother Teresa (Theresa) - Jun. 06, 1980 - The 86. Deutsche Katholikentag (4. - 8. June 1980) ended in Berlin: At Sunday June 8th, 1980 ended with a solemn divine service in the Berlin Olympia-stadium and with a joined manifestation the 86. Katholikentag. About 100,000 believer took place a the divine-service celebrated by the chairman of the German Bischofskonferenz cardinal Hoffner. At the talks and discussions of the Katholikentag stand in the middle the explanation with the attitude of the Catholic Church towards the Dritte Reich and the question after the responsibility of the believers to the 'alteration of the world' / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4908321: Jun 25, 1980 - Left to right: Japan's Foreign Minister Okita, Prime Minister of Canada Pierre-Eliot Trudeau, West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, French President Giscard d'Estaing, Italy's Council President Francesco Cossiga, American President Jimmy Carter, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and President of the European Commission Roy Jenkins / Bridgeman Images