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Britain's Newest Cable Ship to Lay United States-Bermuda Cable

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  • 1961-5-22

Britain's newest cable ship, "Retriever", pictured here at Surrey Commercial Docks, London, England, is being prepared for her first working voyage, when she will lay the shore ends of a new telephone cable between the United States and Bermuda. T...

Central Office of Information, London

British Cyclist - Tommy Simpson

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  • 1964-4-3

"British Cyclist Wins for European Road Race" Tommy Simpson from Doncaster, England, waves the winner's bouquet of flowers after becoming the first Briton to win the classic 179-mile Milan to San Remo, Italian road race. Cyclist Simpsno won at a r...

Daily Mirror

British Scientists Honour Soviet Spaceman

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  • 1961-7-22

The world's first man in space, Major Yuri Gagarin, looking at some early scientific books in the library of Burlington House, headquarters of the Royal Society today. One of the books he saw was Newton's "Principia" (First edition) - Newton's the...

United Press Photos

British Team Wins European Soccer Cup

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  • 1963-5-20

"British Team Wins European Soccer Cup" Danny Blanchflower, captain of London, England's Tottenham Hotspur football team, holds the European Cup high as he is carried round Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland, following the British Club's victor...

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