W. G. Phillips/Getty ImagesLord Denman (1874 - 1954) and Lady Denman (1884 - 1954) take shelter with Lord Mayo during the Punchestown Races, County Kildare on April 13, 1910.
Hulton Archive, Getty ImagesSpectators watch as competitors assemble in the paddock at Brooklands for the fourth 75 mph short handicap race of the ARC Easter Meeting April 13, 1914.
MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty ImagesCrowds looking at H M Walters in his 'Jaffric Special' at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey April 13, 1925.
Brooke, Topical Press Agency/Getty ImagesSome of the 1,000 guests who attended an All Night Ball on the world's largest liner, the White Star Line's Majestic, currently moored at Southampton. Proceeds from the function go to the Royal Southampton Hospital April 13, 1926.
H. F. Davis, Topical Press Agency/Getty ImagesWorkers at the Lyons factory at Cadby Hall putting the crosses on a million buns in preparation for Easter April 13, 1927.
Reg Speller, Fox Photos/Getty ImagesMaking a stone copy from a plaster model of the original Coat of Arms of the Dean and Chapter during restoration work on Christ Church Gate at Canterbury Cathedral, Kent April 13, 1934.
Fred Ramage, Keystone/Getty ImagesMajor General Henry Twaddle of the 95th Infantry division of the US 9th Army and the French Commandant take the salute at a march-past of the 4,000 liberated French officers on April 13, 1945. They had been imprisoned for five years in a prison camp at Soest.
William Vandivert, Keystone/Getty ImagesUS soldiers survey the scene in a barn in Germany, after an undetermined number of political prisoners were gunned down and burnt by their German guards April 13, 1945. One hundred and fifty bodies are left in the barn, while the others are buried in nearby trenches.
Douglas Miller, Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesMembers of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps march to their depot at Hindhead, Surrey, where they will take part in a ceremonial parade to mark Corps Day, April 13, 1953.
AFP/Getty ImagesAmerican comedian Oliver Hardy (R) and Stan Laurel shown in a photo dated April 13, 1950 arriving at the Saint-Lazare train station in Paris.
AFP/Getty ImagesFrench political economist and diplomat Jean Monnet (R) welcomes German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (L) upon his arrival in Paris on April 13, 1951.
Keystone, Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesHarold and Louise Harrison, the parents of Beatles guitarist George Harrison, on a holiday at the Colony Hotel in Montego Bay, Jamaica, paid for by their famous son, April 13, 1964.
Hulton Archive, Getty ImagesAmerican singer and actor Frank Sinatra at London Airport April 13, 1956.
Victor Blackman/Express/Getty ImagesAmerican actor and star of numerous westerns John Wayne (1907 - 1979), born Marion Michael Morrison shown in this April 13, 1957 photo.
Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesJamshid bin Abdullah Al Said, last Sultan of Zanzibar, UK, is shown in this April 13, 1964.
David Levenson, Simon Dack/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesFiremen and onlookers beside a burnt-out building on the second day of riots in Brixton, South London, April 13, 1981.
AFP/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate US Senator Bob Dole (R) and wife Elizabeth Dole (L) react to supporters cheers during a "Dole for President" rally at Hy-Vee Foods corporate office in Des Moines, Iowa, April 13, 1996. Senator Dole is wrapping up a campaign swing before returning to work in the Senate in Washington DC.
AFP/Getty ImagesDr. Jack Kevorkian is handcuffed and removed from the court room by Oakland County Sheriff deputies after being sentenced in his murder trial in Pontiac, MI, April 13, 1999. Judge Jessica Cooper sentenced Kevorkian to 10 to 25 years for the videotaped assisted-suicide death of Thomas Youk of Waterford Township, MI.
AFP/Getty ImagesA woman passes by a carcass April 13, 2000 in waterless Kabridahar, some 100km from Gode. After three years of drought, tens of hundreds of thousands of people in southeastern Ethiopia are starving, mainly around Gode, 370 miles from the capital Addis Ababa, and in Ogaden where children are dying of starvation every day.
AFP/GettyImagesAn elderly Kosovo Albanian refugee arrives April 13, 1999 in Kukes . A new wave of ethnic Albanian refugees streamed out of Kosovo into Albania and Macedonia Tuesday.
AFP/Getty ImagesAn ethnic Albanian refugee child crys on the shoulder of her mother as she takes shelter against the rain in a small camp, outside Kukes, a northern Albanian border town, April 13, 1999. The refugee family arrived two days ago in Albania after fleeing the town of Kosovo Polje in Yugoslavia.
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Lord Denman (1874 - 1954) and Lady Denman (1884 - 1954) take shelter with Lord Mayo during the Punchestown Races, County Kildare on April 13, 1910.
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