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The first non-stop westward flight by an aeroplane over the Atlantic was on April 12-13, 1928, by Germans Captain Herman Kohl (left), Baron Guenther von Hunefeld (right), and Irishman Captain James Fitzmaurice. They flew from Dublin to Greenly Island, Labrador, a distance of 3,564 km.

The Junkers W33 aircraft flown by Germans Captain Herman Kohl, Baron Guenther von Hunefeld and Irishman Captain James Fitzmaurice. The first non-stop westward flight by an aeroplane over the Atlantic on April 12-13, 1928.

A crowd of city workers reading a bulletin announcing the end of the general strike April 12, 1926.

German traveller, philosopher and lecturer Theodore Illion paddling a tiny rubber dinghy during a demonstration in London of the equipment he will take on a planned expedition to uncharted regions of Central Asia April 12, 1934. In the early 1930s, Illion became the first westerner to visit the underground city in Tibet.

A nurse in the operating theatre at St George's Hospital in London April 12, 1935.

A Chesterfield Borough Police telephone operator tests a gasmask with built in earpiece and microphone. The telephone service is considered one of the most important links in the coordination of ARP operations and must remain operational during air raids April 12, 1939.

Three South African athletes (left to right) high jumper Marjorie Clark, J Luckhoff and hurdler Barbara Burke in training at Paddington Recreation Ground, London, for the British Empire Games April 12, 1934.

A line of LNER locomotives on the main line to the north of England ready to cope with the holiday crowds at Kings Cross April 12, 1933.

Picture released on April 12, 1945 of British soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division launching an offensive through the village of Westphalia, near Stadtlohn, during the Second World War.

British army tanks at Aldershot military base in Hampshire April 12, 1930.

German military leader Hermann Goering with Marshal Italo Balbo (1896 - 1940, right) in Tripoli, Libya, April 12, 1939.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaving for the House of Commons with Irish journalist and Minister for Information Brendan Bracken (1901 - 1958), April 12, 1939.

Picture released on April 12, 1945 of Dutch civilians waving to the Canadian soldiers driving through a village of Netherlands, during the Second World War.

American Democratic politician Harry S. Truman, with his wife Bess and daughter Margaret, at the Democratic National Convention, where he was nominated for the Vice- Presidency. Truman became President of the United States on April 12, 1945, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in office.

Motor racing boss Tony Vandervell inspecting a new motor car with a group of mechanics, April 12, 1952.

A photo taken on April 12, 1959 in London shows French actress Brigitte Bardot, flanked by Royal Air Force boys, arriving at the R.A.F. Base .

Charles Mortimore, the captain of Woking FC holding the Football Association Amateur Cup after beating Ilford in the final April 12, 1958.

Malagasy president Philibert Tsiranana is welcomed by the crowd, on April 12, 1960 in Antananarivo, on his return from France and after signing the agreements between France and Madagascar. Madagascar independence will be proclaimed on June 26, 1960 and Philibert Tsiranana is first President of Madagascar from 1959 to 1972.

The Beatles receiving awards from Tony Bennett at the NME Poll Winners Concert at Wembley Pool April 12, 1965.

Irish fashion designer Sybil Connolly admires one of her dress designs on a young model at her Dublin fashion house April 12, 1965.

English actor Michael Caine and Anjanette Comer in Berlin during the filming of 'Funeral in Berlin'. April 12, 1966.

Blindfolded prisoners are taken away by South Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War, 12th April 1972.

South Vietnamese forces inspecting casualties during the Vietnam War April 12, 1972.

President Amin of Uganda with his young son, Mwanga dressed as a commando. Watching are James Callaghan and Denis Hills who had been released from captivity on Mr Callaghan's intervention April 12, 1979.

This April 12, 1981 NASA photo shows the first launching of the space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Columbia carried astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. The space center is 600 miles (965kms) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the Wright Brothers first flew under power.

A group of Sudanese refugee boys in a camp April 12, 1993 run by the UNHCR in north Kenya. The children are praying for peace in south Sudan where there has been a civil war with the government for the past 10 years. Most of the children have been separated from their parents for many years.

A photo dated April 12, 1995 shows prisoners in Kigali suspected of the 1994 massacres in Rwanda. Rwandan firing squads executed 24 April, 22 people convicted of genocide during the 1994 civil war, with some 100,000 jubilant spectators watching the shooting of three men and a woman in Kigali.

Supporters of ousted Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez hold his portraits of the former leader during a protest in front of Tiuna Fort April 12, 2002 in Caracas, where Chavez is being held. Chavez was overthrown earlier after violent protests, which left 15 dead and 300 wounded.

Nigerian field workers for the World Health Organization inoculates a child with polio vaccine April, 2005 in Rimin Gado, Nigeria. Polio, a disease that health workers once had hoped to eradicate worldwide by 2005, is on the march again in Nigeria, especially in this region, where local Islamic leaders banned the polio vaccine two years ago over post Sept. 11 suspicions of everything Western. Inoculations have resumed and Nigeria will undertake a massive countrywide push to inoculate every child under five with nearly 30 million doses of polio vaccine in four days. The 50th anniversary of the approval of the polio vaccine is April 12.