April Collection (page 47)

Istanbul - Police Officer draws gun during Student riots
Istanbul, Turkey - 28th April 1960 - a Police Officer draws his pistol during Student riots against the Government of Adnan Menderes

United for Peace - Worlds Peace Conference, San Francisco, USA (formally United Nations Conference on International Organization) - April 25th - June 26th, 1945

Damage to Exeter during WW2 - Baedeker Blitz
" Exeter under fire" - Damage sustained by bombing on the city by German planes of the luftwaffe during WW2. The Baedeker Blitz (or Baedeker raids) were targetted raids

General William Booth welcomed at the City Hall, Tokyo - April 1907 - (see also: 11008180) Date: 1907

V Beach Cemetery - near Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey
V Beach Cemetery in 1925 - a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. The cemetery was brought into use shortly after the landing at Cape Helles at

San Francisco Earthquake - Ruins of Buildings
San Francisco Earthquake, USA - Ruins of the Lick House Entrance of the Bullock & Jones Building and the San Francisco Savings Union Building after the Earthquake and fire of 18th April, 1906

San Francisco Earthquake - Ruins on Mason Street
San Francisco Earthquake, USA - Ruins on Mason Street after the devastating Earthquake of 18th April, 1906. Date: 1906

Senegal - Rebellion at Thies - Sarithia Dieye and Canar Fall
The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall

Unusual Epitaph in Christchurch Priory, Dorset. Sally Wiiliams died of Grief the 8th April 1836 Aged 79 years. Date: circa 1910s

Samoa - Hoisting the Union flag - World War One
Samoa - Hoisting the Union flag - 30th August, 1914. At the outbreak of World War One, New Zealand troops landed on Upolu unopposed on 29th August 1914 and seized control from the German authorities

The first, short-lived Avro 534 Baby prototype, April 1919

Nadar, the pseudonym of Gaspard-Felix Tournachon
Nadar, the pseudonym of Gaspard-FÚ¼®x Tournachon (6 April 1820 23 March 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist

Northrop F-15A Reporter Pilots Ira Williams and Gayle York
Northrop F-15A Reporter. Pilots Ira Williams, left, and Gayle York underneath the largest pice of plexiglass then blown, April 1946

Cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, 1934-1968, is driven into Prague from the airport in April 1961

Sopwith Snipe, April 1918. Date: 1918

Frederick Handley Page in Bluebird in April 1910. Date: 1910

Frank Hedges Butlers balloon Dolce Far Niente (45, 000cuft) ascending from Monmouth Gas Works on 16 April 1906 during an Easter House Party at the Hendre, Lord Llangattocks seat. Passengers were F

A Rolls-Royce RB211 in one of six newly-built test beds at Derby. April 1969

A Cadet standing by a Royal Naval Air Service SS-2 (Willows VI) airship in a shed at Dover, 9 April 1915

An SS-class airship moored at sea at the Naval Airship Station, Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, 26 April 1917

M Garros flying a Morane-Saulnier Hydro-Monoplaneu
M. Garros flying a Morane-Saulnier Hydro-Monoplane over the Tir-Au-Pigeons at Monte Carlo during the Monaco Schneider Trophy Contest, April 1913

M Gauberts Maurice Farman seaplane
M. Gauberts Maurice Farman seaplane at the Monaco Schneider Trophy Contest, April 1913

M Bregis Breguet H1-U2 seaplane sheltering at Beaulieu
M. Bregis Breguet H1-U2 seaplane sheltering at Beaulieu. The wreck of M. Weymanns Nieuport is in the foreground at the Monaco Schneider Trophy Contest, 12 April 1913

Gilberts Morane-Saulnier seaplane (left)
Gilberts Morane-Saulnier seaplane, left, and the Borel Hydro-monoplane on the quay at the Monaco Schneider Trophy Contest, April 1913

Gilberts Morane-Saulnier seaplane at the Monaco Schneider Trophy Contest, April 1913

Dr Gabriel Espanets Nieuport seaplane at the Monaco Schneider Trophy Contest, April 1913

Borel Hydro-monoplane at the Monaco Schneider Trophy Contest, April 1913

The funeral of Manfred von Richthofen at Bertangles Cemetery, France, on 22 April 1918. No 3 Squadron AFC officers were pallbearers and other ranks from the squadron acted as a guard of honour

The fourth Convair 880 N8801E at Anchorage Alaska
The fourth Convair 880, N8801E, at Anchorage, Alaska, 29 April 1960. Date: 1960

Charles H Kaman receiving the first Ca certificate
On 15 April 1949 Charles H. Kaman, right, received the companys first Ca certificate for the K-190 from Herbert M. Toomey, Chief, Civil Aeronautics Administration, First Region, left, Hal Hermes

Curtiss CW20 G-AGDI St Louis of BOAC April 1942
Curtiss CW20, G-AGDI, St Louis, of BOAC. April 1942. Date: 1942

Dassault MD410-01 Spirale which flew for the first time on 8 April 1960. Date: 1960

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Lockheed Ventura I AE762
Lockheed Ventura I, AE762. April 1942. Date: 1942

Wind-tunnel model of Nord N600 from Air Bus Compraison de Configurations (Exploitation des essays a

Short-Bristow Crusader N226 at Rochester after launching
Short-Bristow Crusader, N226, at Rochester after launching on 18 April 1927. Date: 1927

Lunardis Grand Air Balloon. Engraved for the Aerostatic Spy, 1 April 1785

Convair Atlas on display at Las Vegas
Group photograph of Convair Atlas on display at Las Vegas with Douglas Thor, Boeing Bomarc, Northrop Snark and Discoverer satellite mock-up - the Atlas was an actual ICBM modified for exhibition use

The first Thor IRBM launched in a training exercise by a three-man RAF launch crew at Vandenberg. 16 April 1959. Date: 1959

Skylark sounding rocket being readied for its first public viewing at the Factory Equipment Exhibition at Earls Court, London, April 1958. Date: 1958

A Twin-Engined Commercial Monoplane of the Near Future. Original fine pencil drawing (28.5cm x 37cm) reproduced in Flight 21 April 1921. Roderic Hill drawing. Date: 1921

Jean Batten on her arrival at Croydon after her flight from Australia to the UK. 29 April 1935. Date: 1935

Jean Batten on her arrival in Rome during her flight from Australia to the UK. 27 April 1935. Date: 1935

Bristol Type 142 Britain First in its original form
Bristol Type 142 Britain First, in its original form with wooden airscrews at Filton in April 1935. Date: 1935

A model of Sputnik II in the Soviet Pavilion at the Brussels Fair. 16 April 1958. Date: 1958

The first Short SC1 XG900 landing
The first Short SC1, XG900, landing at the end of its first flight piloted by Tom Brooke-Smith. Boscombe Down, 2 April 1957. Date: 1957

Juan de la Cierva (1895-1936) in the cockpit of the Cierva C30 autogiro at Hanworth Air Park, Middlesex. April 1930. Date: 1936

Hensons Aerial Steam Carriage from a supplement to Illustrated London Life, 1 April 1843

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