[custom_adv] Over sixty years ago, on January 14, 1954, two legends wed in San Francisco - one a baseball hero named Joe DiMaggio, the other, a Hollywood starlet known as Marilyn Monroe. They were famous, wealthy and good-looking, but that was about all they had in common. [custom_adv] Ethel and Julius Rosenberg during their 1951 trial in New York. They were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage – the government claimed they had stolen the secret to the atomic bomb and all but triggered the Korean War. [custom_adv] Now selfie can make even fur-seals, but popular self-inflicted pictures are already almost one hundred years old. The photo dated 1920 emerged in a network. And, by all appearances, it was the first selfie in the world. [custom_adv] British comedy actor Reg Varney was the first person to make a withdrawal from the cash machine – which only dispensed £1 notes, up to the value of £10. [custom_adv] Professional frogman Courtney Brown tows a 55-foot scale model of the sunken liner Titanic during work on the film Raise the Titanic! (released in 1980.) The screen version of the best-selling novel by Clive Cussler dramatizes an attempt to raise the 46,000-ton wreck of the Titanic, which is 2 1/2 miles down on the floor of the North Atlantic. The model is described as "an exact replica costing $5,000,000." [custom_adv] U.S. Army men casually seated around a table as one on horseback jumps over the table. [custom_adv] Men and boys swarm over the wreckage of a train in Buckeye Park in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1896. [custom_adv] July 27, 1934—Heimwehr Mobilized. "Ready for Action." Vienna, Austria: All the Heimwehr forces in Vienna have been mobilized and ordered to get ready for immediate action. Armored cars are patrolling the main streets in case of disturbance. [custom_adv] July 17, 1938—Vienna Police lifeboats competed on the Danube Canal in races. During the gathering, two soldiers demonstrated the art of swimming a machine gun along the Danube, spattering bullets as they went. The gun was mounted on a raft, and the two soldiers, using their legs like paddles, drove the craft upstream, demonstrating how simple it is for modern military methods to overcome natural forces such as floods. [custom_adv] A two-horn listening device in use at Bolling Field in Washington, D.C., in 1921, used to detect distant aircraft before the advent of radar. [custom_adv] The next significant date in multi-level buses came in 1954, with the introduction of the double-decker Routemaster bus, which, painted red, became an iconic sight in London. And, inevitably, triple-decker versions soon followed. [custom_adv] Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of the old Roman town of Remagen, about halfway between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt on the Rhine River, at the end of World War II was the 1,000-foot, double-track Ludendorff railroad bridge. [custom_adv] April 17, 1928—A novel hour of entertainment was recently presented to the radio audience of the nation with the inauguration of the Michelin Hour, presented by the rubber tire manufacturing concern. The orchestra's members are attired in grotesque fashion, as shown above. [custom_adv] Surprised spectators look on in amazement as Miss Beth Pitt takes her pet fawn, Star Message, for a walk in midtown New York on November 16, 1942. Earlier in the day Miss Pitt paid a fine of $2 in court for letting her pet to roam free in Central Park. [custom_adv] Cassius Clay became a Muslim and was named Mohammed Ali by an Islamic leader named Elijah Mohammed. [custom_adv] Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly celebrates Friday the 13th in October of 1939 by standing on his head on a board stuck out from the 54th floor of the Chanin Building, and dunking doughnuts over Manhattan. [custom_adv] Miss Amelia Earhart, copilot of the transatlantic plane Friendship, atop the roof of the Hyde Park Hotel in London, getting a view on June 26, 1928. [custom_adv] An army Sikorsky R-5 helicopter undergoing record trials demonstrates its lifting power by carrying 17 persons and pilot aloft as female onlookers wave in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on January 10, 1946. During the tests, records were claimed for altitude speed and both altitude and speed with payload. [custom_adv] May 8, 1941, New York, La Guardia Field. No, these are not men from Mars, but TWA mechanics and inspectors with propeller hub caps over their heads as they go about spring overhauling chores on the giant transport planes at the airport. [custom_adv] 1928—Gigantic flame and no smoke! A furious pillar of fire from an oil well causes tremendous losses at Santa Fe Springs, California. The terrific blaze following the blow in of the Bell View No. 1 well in a fabulous rich field. The intense heat has spread destruction to adjacent derricks and the loss has already reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is the second severe fire in the field. [custom_adv] January 28, 1961, Pyramids of Giza, Egypt—American jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong plays the trumpet while his wife sits listening, with the Sphinx and one of the pyramids behind her, during a visit to the pyramids at Giza. [custom_adv] Ivan Unger, a member of the "Flying Black Nats" and Gladys Roy are shown playing tennis on the wings of an airplane in flight. [custom_adv] The Queen joined as an honorary Second Subaltern and had five months of training in London as a mechanic and military truck driver. [custom_adv] President John F. Kennedy laughs with officials at the presentation of a Thanksgiving turkey by the National Turkey Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board; President Kennedy pardoned the turkey.
