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

7th September 1937: Jim Sainsbury, champion basket-carrier, with 20 baskets balanced on his head. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

English writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881 – 1975), 7th September 1928. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American film director Steven Spielberg, 7th September 1978. (Photo by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Captain James Thain, the pilot of the Munich air crash, amidst the crowds at Craven Cottage in London to watch Manchester United play Fulham, 7th September 1964. This is the first time he has watched Manchester United play since the accident. Twenty-three people died, including several members of the Manchester United football team, after their aircraft crashed on take-off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich in 1958. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th September 1962: Three young boys gazing at toys in a shop window in old Walworth Street, home of the East Street Market, south London. The market is soon to be replaced with the modern Elephant and Castle shopping precinct. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Members of the crew of a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress bomber boarding their aircraft at an Eighth Air Force bomber training school in England, 7th September 1942. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th September 1951: American actress, Tallulah Bankhead (1902 – 1968), signing autographs from the back of her car. (Photo by Allan/Express/Getty Images)

7th September 1931: Mrs Stewart driving her vintage Austin 7. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th September 1951: An amateur radio station G3ACC/A at Camberwell Council’s Festival of Britain exhibition attracts young visitors. Malcolm Thayer is the duty officer encouraging a young enthusiast to send a message across the world. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th September 1926: Two native Moros of the Bogabo tribe from the Philipines (Photo by Ewing Galloway/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

7th September 1934: A gardener trimming a unique example of topiary at Rodin, Dunmow, Essex, depicting a group of horsemen and hounds hunting a stag. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

South African boxer Jake Tuli, the former Empire Flyweight champion seen training at a gym in the Old kent Road, London for his contest against Peter Keenan, 7th September 1955.
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7th September 1940: English countryfolk inspecting the wreckage of a German aircraft that came down on their farm. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th September 1931: Mr W Knightsmith, a London toastmaster celebrating his golden wedding, cuts a cake with his wife. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th September 1943: German politico-military Hermann Wilhelm Goering and architect and Nazi government official Albert Speer (left) viewing an architectural model of a future Berlin. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

7th September 1911: Workers at the London and North West Carriage works making train seats. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th September 1960: American athlete Rafer Johnson (left) and Yang Chuan-Kwang of Taiwan together after completing the 1500 metres event of the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Johnson went on to win the decathlon with Yang in second place. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

7th September 1937: Three holidaymakers in high spirits on the beach at Porthcawl, South Wales. (Photo by Richards/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th September 1939: Members of the Women’s Land Army pause from harvesting to listen to a radio news bulletin in a Monmouthshire field. (Photo by Maeers/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th September 1935: Children are allowed to sit on the sidelines of the pitch as Brentford play Huddersfield Town at Brentford. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th September 1959: A Saunders-Roe hovercraft, with a group of Royal Marines on board, at the Farnborough airshow in Hampshire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

7th September 1964: Beatlemania hits Toronto as The Beatles’ North American tour takes them into Canada. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th September 1964: A ‘flea market’ in second hand books is run and patronised by students in Rome. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

English film and theatre costume designer Dolly Tree (1899 – 1962) posing with a long cigarette holder, London, 7th September 1926. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A cleaner dusts the front bench of the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster, ready for the Opening of Parliament the next day, 7th September 1931. (Photo by S. R. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th September 1971: British model Jackie Perrin demonstrates the Datagraphix 4200 micromation on-line microfilmer at the Mount Royal Hotel in London. The computer costs ?24,000 and it precludes the use of one of the growing number of bureaux facilities. (Photo by Mike Lawn/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th September 1944: German civilians in Brussels crouch in a doorway with revolvers at the ready as they prepare to resist the British who are recapturing the city. (Photo by PNA Rota/Getty Images)

Leader of the Opposition Harold Wilson speaking at the opening of the 5000th flat built by Pancras Council, in Clarence Gardens, London, September 7th 1963. (Photo by Edward Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)