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    Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor poses with a Yorkshire terrier near a rocket at the Rome Universal Exhibition, Rome, Italy, July 2, 1959.

    Gabor was in Italy to work on the movie "The Blue Countess" in Naples.




    Out of petrol

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    23rd June 1935: Policemen survey the wreckage of a plane which ran out of petrol and plunged into King George Reservoir, Ponder's End, London. The pilot, Mr A Norman, and his passenger, Miss Jaqueline Paravicini, were unhurt.

    Photo by E. Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images



    Feeding

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    Italian solider and explorer Umberto Nobile sits amid protective gear and feeds his pet dog 'Titina' during his ill-fated second airship expedition to the North Pole, late Spring or early Summer, 1928.

    Nobile's airship 'Italia' crashed on pack ice during its return from the Pole, half of the crew survived to be picked up seven weeks after the initial crash.

    Nobile and Titina were rescued by a Swedish aircraft on June 23.

    Photo: Pictorial Parade/Getty Images


    Space woman

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    Valentina Tereshkova practises eating in simulated flight conditions for her flight as the first woman in space.

    Lieutenant Tereshkova, 26, was the fifth Russian cosmonaut to go into the Earth's orbit when her spaceship Vostok VI was launched on 16 June 1963, 1230 Moscow time.

    Moscow Television broadcast the first pictures of Tereshkova - code-named Seagull - ninety minutes later.

    Photo: Keystone/Getty Images

     

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    London bank manager George Scanner takes a group of children on a ride around his garden on a miniature steam engine, 26 June 1956.

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    Schoolboys skate on the frozen fountain at Trafalgar Square, London, February 1929.

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    This picture was taken in 1938, and shows a woman sorting through the mail.