On This Day In Photos: April 7th In The 20th Century

5 Apr 1997: The crowd sieze the opportunity to jump the famous fences at Aintree due to the evacuation of the stands, caused by the IRA bomb scare which postponed The Grand National to April 7th at the Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, England. MandatoryCredit: David Rogers /Allsport

7th April 1951: A butcher’s shop with unrationed meat. Thery are selling, English hare, Polish turkey, Swedish reindeer, French turkey, English chicken, Irish turkey and Polish chicken ! (Photo by Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty Images)

Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher helping out local butcher Mr Miller during canvassing for the General Election, April 7th 1979. (Photo by Ball/Keystone/Getty Images)

7th April 1965: A young German girl clutches her doll for comfort. She is one of a group of German refugee children who have come to England for a holiday with an English family. She wears a label round her neck which says, ‘Croydon’. (Photo by Philip Townsend/Express/Getty Images)

7th April 1970: Glasgow born pop singer Lulu (Marie MacDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) celebrates with champagne after hearing she will help host a TV show in America. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Swedish pop group ABBA give the thumbs up after winning the Eurovision Song Contest with their song ‘Waterloo’, Brighton, 7th April 1974. Left to right: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson.
(Photo by Steve Wood/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Highbury Quadrant Estate in London, 7th April 1970. (Photo by R. Jones/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th April 1965: Yves Saint-Laurent, ex-wonder boy of Dior, working at his own fashion house in Paris. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)

7th April 1936: The launch of the ‘HMS Hardy’ at Cammel Laird shipyard in Birkenhead. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th April 1967: A mini with patterns painted on it. (Photo by Caroline Gillies/BIPs/Getty Images)

7th April 1943: Shoppers queue for their fish in Eltham. This particular shopkeeper has posted a notice that only local people will be served and identity cards inspected before the purchase can be made. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th April 1936: Old Sam Spooner, the eldest competitor in the annual marble championship of England, showing his rivals a few tricks at Tinsley Green, Sussex. (Photo by John Waterman/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th April 1927: The director of electro-optical research at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Doctor Herbert Ives, beside a television receiving the first inter-city broadcast. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th April 1963: A potato vendor in Berlin uses a bell and a megaphone to attract customers. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

7th April 1936: Grafton Hunt Hunter Trials at Langford Farm, Greens Norton, Towcester, Northamptonshire. Captain T G Du Buisson , Secretary of the Grafton Hunt being rescued after a fall from ‘George’ in the Member’s Trial. (Photo by Harrison /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th April 1913: Crowds gather round a W H Smith van which was overturned by a motor bus in Fleet Street, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th April 1923: Mrs Edwards, one of the five contestants taking part in the London to Brighton Perambulator Walking Race, passing two policemen at Crawley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th April 1939: A caravan for two that can be drawn by a motor cycle. It is only 9ft 6ins long and 5ft wide. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th April 1930: Two young nudists attend an open air school at Brackenhill, Tunbridge Wells. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th April 1965: Corporal John Pearson is lowered down a well during a search by the Royal Engineers for treasure at Bosing House. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th April 1930: A workman produces a batch of policeman’s helmets at a workshop in Tooley Street, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th April 1967: A customer at the Take 6 boutique in London’s Wardour Street tries on a jacket as all-girl group She Trinity play live in the background. The boutique has been hiring bands to play during the lunch hour to attract more customers. (Photo by Allan De Vries/BIPs/Getty Images)

Madame Sakova with students of the Royal Ballet School dressed in costumes from the ‘Ballet Russes’ prior to the costumes being auctioned at Sotheby’s, 7th April 1967. (Photo by Victor Blackman/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)