On This Day
1926(01 of13)
British film director, Alfred Hitchcock with his bride, Alma, at their wedding.
1931(02 of13)
Giant Anti-Hitler demonstration at the Berlin Sportpalast on 2 December 1931, organised by the Republican Reichsbanner.
1938(03 of13)
Len Harvey relaxes in his London home the morning after winning the British Heavyweight Title. He beat Eddie Phillips on points
1943(04 of13)
Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects his old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, lined up in front of their tanks, in the Egyptian Desert, near Cairo, in December 1943.
1947(05 of13)
Workers on London Underground's new Central Line extension from Leytonstone to Woodford and Newbury Park.
1955(06 of13)
Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, about to take off to Antarctica from Auckland, New Zealand for a preliminary reconnaissance for a New Zealand expedition, holds his son Peter, aged 19 months.
1957(07 of13)
Technicians watching a nuclear reactor dome being lowered, by means of huge overhead crane, into place at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station.
1961(08 of13)
Tony Curtis and wife, actress Janet Leigh, are shown in December 1961 as she greeted him on his return to New York from Argentina.
1970(09 of13)
With a radioman leading the way while transmitting, two Cambodian soldiers assist their wounded buddy away from fighting on the road between Kompong Chan and Skoun.
1975(10 of13)
Ronald Reagan had this reaction to a newsman's questions when he appeared on ABC's Issues and Answers in Los Angeles.
1988(11 of13)
Cyclone victims wait for relief outside their damaged house in Satkhira, Bangladesh.
1993(12 of13)
the Hubble Space Telescope, backdropped over Madagascar, is berthed in the cargo bay of the space shuttle following its capture by STS-61 astronauts on their mission to service the telescope.
1995(13 of13)
Rogue trader Nick Leeson is sent to jail for six years for fraud.