17th DECEMBER: The Beatles pose wearing leather jackets and trousers during their first professional photography session with local wedding...
Actors George Chakiris, Tony Mordente, Tucker Smith and Russ Tamblyn in a scene from the musical film 'West Side Story', 1961.
17th DECEMBER: The Beatles pose wearing leather jackets and trousers during their first professional photography session with local wedding...
Queen Elizabeth II arrives at a luncheon given by the Governor of Peshawar during a Commonwealth visit to Pakistan, 4th February 1961.
Princess Margrethe of Denmark, heiress to Denmark's throne is 21 today and is having her 'Key of the Castle' party at the Danish Embassy in London....
Start of the construction of the Berlin Wall. At midnight on 13th August the police and units of the East German army began to close the border and,...
Young people at the Aretusa nightclub in Milan dancing The Twist, a new dance craze, Italy, 29th December 1961.
Launch of Mercury-Redstone 3 Carrying Astronaut Alan Shephard, Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA, May 5 Comparison to Saturn I Launch Vehicle on Right,...
Sign on the Berlin Wall on Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin, in English, Russian, French and German, 1961. It warns 'You are leaving the American Sector'.
Atlas Agena B Missile Launch" -- Pictured: NBC News' Herb Kaplow at the launch of the Atlas Agena B missile from Cape Canaveral, Florida on December...
Civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders disembark from their bus , en route from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, as they...
Scenes in Berlin shortly after the erection of the Berlin Wall, dividing the Soviet occupied Eastern sector of the city from the Allied occupied...
An armoured water truck cleans the street of debris after the East German government ordered construction work to strengthen the border crossing at...
Scenes in Berlin shortly after the erection of the Berlin Wall, dividing the Soviet occupied Eastern sector of the city from the Allied occupied...
British-born American actress Elizabeth Taylor , with her Oscar for Best Actress in 'Butterfield 8', at the 33rd Academy Awards, Santa Monica,...
Gary Player of South Africa and Arnold Palmer of the United States are followed on the course by a crowd of spectators during a $10,000 television...
November 1961. In full battle dress, East German troops guard workmen behind the screen who are reinforcing the Berlin Wall.
Civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders en route from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, as they seek to enforce integration by...
Soldiers of the East German National People's Army erecting barbed wire fences to close off a street in preparation for the construction of the...
Queen Elizabeth II using a cine camera to film the action at the Badminton Horse Trials as her son, Prince Charles looks on, Badminton House,...
British Royals Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother , her daughter Queen Elizabeth II with her sons, Prince Andrew and Prince Charles, on the train to...