Topical Press Agency, Getty ImagesAllen Boyle in flight on his Avis monoplane The Hon April 16, 1910.
Topical Press Agency, Getty ImagesNewspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the Evening News telling of the Titanic maritime disaster, outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House in London's Cockspur Street April 16, 1912. Six years later Parfett was killed during a German bombardment whilst serving in France, just days before the end of World War I.
Topical Press Agency, Getty ImagesWomen sort paper for the London & South West Railway's scheme to clear out and recycle waste paper April 16, 1917.
Topical Press Agency, Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesSalvation Army officers give advice to a group of orphaned boys from the Dr Barnardo's Homes, as they leave for Canada on the 'RMS Antonia', UK, April 16, 1923.
Topical Press Agency, Getty ImagesSeventeen American golfers, 12 of whom will be selected as the team to meet England for golf's Ryder Cup, on arrival at Paddington Station, London April 16, 1929.
Topical Press Agency, Getty ImagesThe great tower of Crystal Palace in London falls to the ground during its demolition April 16, 1941.
Fox Photos, Getty ImagesChildren in Hackney are advised on road safety and the dangers of picking up strange objects by police officers April 16, 1943.
Allan Jackson, Keystone/Getty ImagesAmerican medics preparing to evacuate slave labourers by ambulance from Nordhausen concentration camp April 16, 1945.
National Archives/NewsmakersSlave laborers are shown in their bunks at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany after liberation April 16, 1945. Many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops entered the camp. Included in this photo is Elie Wiesel, future Nobel Peace Prize recipient, pictured in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam.
Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesBritish Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaves Euston Station in London for Scotland, April 16, 1953.
Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesComic actor Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977) with his daughter Geraldine on his 70th birthday at the Manoir de Ban, Switzerland, April 16, 1959.
Ian Brodie/Daily Express/Getty ImagesGeneral Lon Nol , the Prime Minister of Cambodia, attends a national solidarity rally in Cambodia, April 16, 1970.
AFP/Getty ImagesUS soldiers evacuate civilians by helicopter aboard the USS Okinawa on April 16, 1975.
AFP/Getty ImagesA picture released on April 16, 1975 shows Cambodian refugees arriving at the US military base of Utapao, Thailand, as Cambodian civils flee the Cambodian war.
AFP/Getty ImagesUS President Jimmy Carter (L) speaks during a press conference about talks on Mideast situation, on April 16, 1980 in Washington DC, as Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin looks on.
AFP/Getty ImagesIraqi Kurdish refugees seek shelter April 16, 1991 in public works tubing near Chouchani. Iraqi Kurdish families are fleeing from their homes to the "safety" of the mountains along the Turkish-Iraqi and Iranian borders, with little to protect them from the cold as fighting intensifies between Saddam Hussein' soldiers and the Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas. Several thousand British, American and French troops moved 22 April into northern Iraq to prepare camps as part of operation "Provide Comfort" for the 500,000 Kurdish refugees.
AFP/Getty ImagesA boy, Kalashnikov in hand, leads a group of Charles Taylor's soldiers during heavy fighting around Monrovia's main military barracks, April 16, 1996. At least 15 corpses were scattered around.
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Allen Boyle in flight on his Avis monoplane The Hon April 16, 1910.
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