Queen Elizabeth II opens and attends the Chelsea Flower Show in London, United Kingdom. The Queen’s sister Princess Margaret and her husband, David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, with other dignitaries at opening of the Chelsea Flower show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital (Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4SR England) in London, England. The Queen’s mother, Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, attends the flower show. They visit the garden and see various types of flowers. A man explains about flowers. A man talks to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, about flowers inside the tented area of the flower show.
American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.
Swimmers wear their dresses during 200 m Butterfly event in AAU Women's Championship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All the players dive in swimming pool as the event starts. Becky Collins from indianapolis set new world record for 200m Butterfly swim in2:32.8. Becky Collins with her lucky toy bear. Women players dive in pool during 10m platform diving event and Barbara McAliister wins.
Aerial view of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Panoramic view of city as seen from West Berlin. Scenes of buildings nearby, some reconstructed after World War 2, and others still in rubble and ruin after bombing during the war more than 15 years prior. The Quadriga sculpture on top of the Brandenburg Gate.
During 1961 in build up to Berlin Crisis: Barbed wire on border seen from West Berlin side (initial Berlin Wall). Russian soldier uses binoculars to watch an approaching jeep. Jeep stops because of barrier. Sign shows 'Achtung 500m Schutzstreifen'. Men carry a box through woods fleeing or escaping into West Germany before the border was fully closed. A man with his bicycle passing over a narrow path into West Germany, as another man passes over on foot. People in a canoe approaching a west German bank of the river or lake as they flee from east Germany. A street bus approaches and parks near an intersection with street sign for "Marienfelder Allee." Men, women, and children refugees with their suitcases on a street as they gather near a refugee processing center, before heading into West Germany. A bulldog tied. A mother feeds her baby. Young refugees on streets, refugees board bus. A map show allocation of German parts to France, United States, England and Soviet Union. Traffic on road in Berlin, with view of the bombed (from World War 2) Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church or the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, in the background. Many German civilian pedestrians walking on streets in busy West Berlin. 1950's and 1960's cars and trucks on busy Berlin streets. People in outdoor cafe restaurant. Telefunken building is seen.
Troops and vehicles of the 2nd battle group, 182 AB, 101 AB Division, standing by in ready area. Military jeeps flashing lights. Cadets in tents during Mississippi Riots by segregationists against education integration at University of Mississippi during the civil rights movement.
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