ZUM4948010: Jan. 01, 1955 - Ladies cup winner in Monte Carlo Rally home. Winner of the ladies cup in the Monte Carlo Rally -Sheila Van Damm, and her two co-drivers, Mrs. Ann Hall, of Huddersfield, and Mrs. Francose clarke, of Rugby, arrived home by air today Ferriyfield airport, near Lydd, Kent today - with their sunbeam -Talbot car / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948027: Jan. 01, 1955 - Unshering in a New Era of transportation, the atomic powered submarne USS Nautilus, is pictured underway on her initial sea trial in Long Island Sound on January 17, 1955. The historic moment came at 11:01 a.m. when the Nautilus under nuclear power cast off and got underway from the Croton, Conn, dock of her builder, the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation. Public Health Department, Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4947702: Jan. 01, 1955 - South African Minister of Justice arrives: Included in the arrivals at Waterloo Station this morning on the S.S. Bloemfontein Boat Train was Mr. Charles Robert Swart South African Minister of Justice who is feared by 8 1/2 million Africans. He was accompanied by his wife and Chief of the Special Branch Police Colonel Prinsloo. He is to attend the Commonwealth Conference as representative of Premier Stridjom / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4903203: January 24, 1965 - Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL (November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as well as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Churchill was uniquely stirred by the challenge of war and found his fulfillment in leading the democracies to victory. It was to prove more important that as a democrat, he was disgusted by the rise of totalitarian systems in Europe. PICTURED: Dec 29, 1953 - London, England, United Kingdom - Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL, in coat, hat and with cane, arriving at No. 10 Downing Street to take the Chancellor of the Exchequer chair after returning from Chequers / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4903408: Jan. 01, 1954 - New Rifle Demonstrated: A demonstration of Rifle Self Lading F.N. 30 - the new rifle developed by the Belgian Company “Fabrique d'armes de guerre” of Liege. was given today. It was originally designed to fire the low velocity small caliber. 28. inch ammunition developed in U.K. It has since been modified to fire the high velocity.30inch universal round. which has been produced to meet the Military Characteristics agreed by the N.A.T.O countries. The rifle in the various stages of its developments, has been subjected to extensive Technical and User trials in this country and the United States / Bridgeman Images