ZUM4882613: Sep. 30, 1953 - Incident in Schoeneberg Town-Hall-Madman Arrested: While the council of Berlin senate met in Schoeneberg Town-Hall at 2200 hours for a special meeting at the occasion of the death of Governing Mayor Ernst Reuter a man entered the hall of the town-hall and began to interrupt the silence with scolding. “I want to kill the mayor!” he shouted and was raving about. Berlin SPD-Chairman Neuman just being on the way to the meeting walked yo to the raving madman and tried to appease him. But he went on with crying and raving. Then policemnen stepped in and had to hold the man by force. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4884370: Oct. 10, 1953 - She is the new” Diamond Cracker”; Twenty year old Liliane Montevecchi as she appears in the famous Roland Petite's ballet” The diamond cracker”. The ballet is now being shown again at the empire theater, Paris. Liliane Montevecchi holds the role played by Petite's former partner Zizi Jean Maire. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4884397: Oct. 10, 1953 - Youinto Foreign Secretary Received By M. Georges Bidault: From Left To Right: M. Georges Bidault, France's Foreign Minister, M. Koca Popovitch, Youinto Foreign Secretary And M. Srdja-Prica, Youinto Ambassador To Paris Photographed At The Quai D'Orsay, Paris This Afternoon. Mr. Popovitch Is On His Way Back To Belgrade After Attending The Uno Meeting In New York. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4884685: Oct. 10, 1953 - Perhaps it was the accent: Delegates form 28 countries recently met in London at a World Health Organization International Conference, described as the first of its kind, to discuss the use of statistics nationally and internationally in the attack on disease / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4884796: Oct. 10, 1953 - Princess Margaret visits” The Toddler's Eton”; H.R.H. Princess Margaret this afternoon visited” The Toddler's Eton” - the Rachel McMillan open-air nursery school at Deptford. The 165 children aged 2-5 at Britain's oldest open air nursery school are trained by teachers and nurses, helped by students who come - for practical experience from the Rachel Mcmillan teachers training college next door / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4884812: Oct. 10, 1953 - Queen Mother receives Freedom of city of London, greeted by Lord Mayor; Photo Shows: Sir Rupert De La Bere The Lord Mayor of London seen as he stands between his guests the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret - on their arrival at the Guildhall today for the presentation of the Freedom of the City of London to the Queen Mother. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885010: Oct. 10, 1953 - Long- Haired Beauty From Trinidad: Picture Shows: Beautiful long- haired dancer from Trinidad, Shari, who has just joined Claude Marchant's American Negro Ballet which arrived in England from S. American a month ago, seen at the Embassy Club, Bond- street, where the company has been and is currently appearing. They opens at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, on Tue. Oct. 27th / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885243: Oct. 10, 1953 - French and Belgian International Dancers Arrive... Complete in Costume... Les Cramignons Liegeois of Belgium and Les Dancseurs Chanteurs die Marais Vendeon of France arrived at Victoria Station this morning... They went direct to the Royal Albert Hall - Where they are taking part in the International Dance Festival. Keystone Photo Shows: Three of the young ladies from Belgium - at Victoria Station this morning. They are L-R: Gaby Davin (as 'Market Gardenerer'); Thiry Raymode ('Coal Heaver') and Heresse Marthe ('Market Gardenerer')... They all come from Leige. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885389: Oct. 10, 1953 - Huge cake in the shape of Windsor castle for Royal Society of St. George Banquet. A cake which is five feet long has been prepared for the banquet at the Savoy Hotel which is being held for the Royal Society of St. George. The cake modelled to represent Windsor Castle, will be carried in by pikemen from the Tower of London - and took four weeks to make. Viscount Montgomery will preside over the 500 diners and the food and wines will come from all parts of the Empire / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886541: Oct. 10, 1953 - The” Swiftsure” and the” Diamond” arrives, Stretcher Case Comes Ashore. The cruiser Swiftsure and the Daring Class ship Diamond which were involved in collision during Excercise Mariner, arrived off Sheerness today. Injured members of the crews came ashore. Keystone Photo shows: Leading Electrician Mate, Charles Chase of Northfleet, is carried ashore on a stretcher, at Sheerness today. He is from H.M.S Swiftsure. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886899: Oct. 10, 1953 - Victor Mature comes back and has his bath: Victor Mature who four days ago stalked out of the Savoy Hotel because he could not find his fifth floor favorite room with a shower came back to the same hotel yesterday took a lift to the fifth floor and had his shower. Meantime he had flown 6,000 miles to New York and back / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886951: Oct. 10, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes record descent: Scientist Professor Piccard is seen wearing life-jacket, as he emerges from the connecting-tower of the bathysphere Trieste, after making a world record dive of 10,335 feet. The dive was made 50 miles from Rinza Island, off the west coast of Italy. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886963: Oct. 10, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes record depth descent in Bathyscaph off coast of Italy: Professor Auguste Piccard the 69 year old Swiss Born scientist dived to a world record depth of 10,335 feet (nearly two miles) in his Bathyscaph, the” Trieste”, at a point fifty miles from the Island of Ponza off the West Coast of Italy. The previous record depth was 6,889 feet set up by Commander Houch of the French Navy in the Bay of Toulon. Professor Piccard's dive was made in the” Tyrrrhenian Pit” - the deepest point of the Mediterrabeab Basin / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4887144: Oct. 10, 1953 - Jimmy Edwards to Marry: The radio and stage comedian, Jimmy Edwards, of the” Take It From Here” show, is engaged to 21-year old Miss Anne Michelle Caren-Gibbs, a former school teacher. Mr. Edwards, who is 33, has been selected for the third time to appear in the Royal Variety Performance at the London Coliseum next month / Bridgeman Images