Events around time of division of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten declares India as a free country in Karachi and New Delhi. Crowd gathers at the India Gate to celebrate the freedom. Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten in jeep. Celebration in the cities. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addresses people. New flag of Pakistan flies on the flag pole. Officers and Mohammad Ali Jinnah salute. People walk on the street of free India. Jawaharlal Nehru addresses people. Indian flag on the flag pole.
Match between Kentucky Wildcats and Seattle at the Basketball Championship held in Louisville, United States. They play in the NCAA Hoop Championship. Match in progress. Spectators watch the match. They cheer and applaud. The Wildcats win the match. Vernon Hatton scores 30 points.
With World War 2 tensions simmering, German and Italian agents and their families, expelled from the United States, bid farewell to relatives and friends at New York port. Distant view of USS West Point carrying agents and their families back home. Ship underway with New York City skyline in background. Axis country diplomats or agents prepare to board chartered airplane.
Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air arrives with fellow colleagues at St. Paul's Cathedral (St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom) in London. Mr. Sinclair unveils a Bronze tablet honoring Pilot William Meade Lindsley "Billy" Fiske III that reads 'WILLIAM MEADE LINDSLEY FISKE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO DIED THAT ENGLAND MIGHT LIVE'.4 July 1941.
Chief of the Office of Personnel Management OPM Knudsen visits Seattle's Boeing manufacturing factory. Knudsen inspects factory accompanied with factory officials. This is probably Plant 2 on the Boeing grounds. Assembly line production of various Boeing planes goes on. Overhead view of 3 Boeing fuselages under construction. This is a few months before the United States' entry into World War 2.
Men, women, and children of Astoria, New York holding American flags parade the streets to celebrate rituals of Greek Orthodox Easter. Accompanying them is Archbishop Athenagoras and his fellow church clergy dressed in elaborate liturgical vestments. Congregation heads inside St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Cathedral (30-11 30th Dr, Queens, NY 11102, United States). Overhead shot of Archbishop with holy cross and other clergy with lit candles in center of thousands of attendants. 11 April 1938.
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