Good Old Days


Rosa Parks is arrested for violating segregation laws by refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956

The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964

A circus elephant walks out of a train car in a Bronx railroad yard in 1963

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932

Nelson Mandela walks free from prison in Cape Town in 1990

Mother Teresa cradles an armless little orphan girl in Calcutta in 1973



Louis Bleriot made the first powered flight across the English Channel in 1909

London city gent with one of the first mobile phones in 1984

13-year-old Julie Andrews is the youngest star chosen for the Royal Command Variety Performance at the London Palladium in 1948

Blood pours from the face of Henry Cooper as the referee stops the 1966 World Heavyweight Championship fight against Muhammad Ali

Italy's Pietri Dorando was disqualified from winning the marathon in the London Olympics in 1908 after officials helped him over the line

Men at work during the cleaning of the Statue of Justice over the Old Bailey in 1933

Emily Lucas from Tunbridge Wells in England soon after the birth of her 23rd child in 1926

Charlie Chaplin on the shoulders of Manuel Alonso, the famous Spanish tennis player with Douglas Fairbanks (left) and William T. Tilden, the tennis champion in 1923

Audrey Hepburn dressed as a tulip at the Cambridge Theatre preview of Cecil Landeau's 'Sauce Piquante' in 1950



A second atomic bomb explodes over the Japanese port of Nagasaki in 1945

The Black Power salute at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games

A gunman fires six shots at President Ronald Reagan in Washington in 1981