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

7th February 1902: Scott’s expedition ship ‘Discovery’ eight miles from winter quarters 1902 in the ice pack shortly before coming to the anchorage where she remained frozen in March 1902. Original Publication: Illustrated London News – pub. 1903 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th March 1970: A total eclipse of the sun observed by the Harvard College Observatory, America. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th March 1936: Germany’s giant hydrogen-filled Zeppelin, LZ-129, the Hindenburg, on a trial flight at Friedrichshafen. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Harold MacMillan (1894 – 1986), British Minister of Housing and Local Government, opens a block of six houses on the Eastcote Estate in Middlesex, 7th March 1952. The houses, built by Wimpey, were erected in only seven weeks. (Photo by Edward Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th March 1930: A group of children wearing goggles sit in front of large reflecting lamps at the Institute of Ray Therapy. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Portrait of the three Zog Princesses of Albania; (L-R) Rhuije, Maxhide and Myzeyen, wearing matching black karakul coats and hats, during a visit to the girl scout headquarters, Radio City, New York, March 7th 1938. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th March 1913: A suffragette adding to messages written by others on a pavement in Kensington. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th March 1930: A group of uniformed young cable messengers talking in the street. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th March 1985: French stockbrokers at work. (Photo by Patrice Cotteau/Keystone/Getty Images)

7th March 1947: Mary Margaret-Angela Hoyer, the designer of the United Nations flag. (Photo by Stanley Sherman/Express/Getty Images)

7th March 1957: Author Colin Wilson and Joy Stewart in their sparsely furnished London bedsitting flat. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

7th May 1952: Sonia Banular wears a mask to a poster parade in London demanding equal pay for women. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

7th March 1968: Mrs Dylan Thomas with her family, on the occasion of her legal action over the ownership of the manuscript of Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood’. (Photo by Frederick R. Bunt/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Adorning her helmet with the Female Gender symbol, Arlene Hiss became the first woman granted a competition license by the United States Auto Club and is the first woman to drive in an Indy-car race The Jimmy Bryan 150 USAC National Championship race and is seen here during a a driver in the Showroom Stock class race at Riverside International Raceway on 7th March 1976 in Riverside, California, United States. (Photo by Ralph Merlino/Getty Images)

7th March 1931: Spectators wrap up against the cold at an England V Scotland Women’s Hockey International at Merton Abbey. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th March 1936: Cambridge policemen, known as ‘Bulldogs’, lined up for the University Bulldogs Chase, dressed in morning coats and top hats. (Photo by H. Allen/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

7th July 1979: A marcher in a gay rights parade up New York’s Fifth Avenue. (Photo by Brian Alpert/Keystone/Getty Images)

7th March 1939: Children who are small enough to pass under an archway in Bow in the east end of London qualify for a weekly parcel of toys. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th March 1963: American actress, Tracy Reed, being made up before shooting begins on the set of the film ‘Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)

7th March 1979: The Cunningham family at home in a high-rise flat in Wandsworth. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

7th March 1958: Young Stanley George, of Essex, undergoes the traditional initiation ceremony for an apprentice to a ‘Journeyman Cooper’. (Photo by Ron Burton/Keystone/Getty Images)

7th April 1932: A communist mass meeting before the presidential elections. The Old Museum is in the background. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

7th August 1980: Iranians praying during a demonstration outside the House of Commons in London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

7th March 1966: Liz Allen wearing a Lurex trouser suit and Maureen Lynne in an op-art black and white play suit from a range of Italian knitwear fashions. Both outfits are by Naka of Milan. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

7th February 1972: John Christopher Grey, John Joseph Flavin and Michael Christopher O’Kane outside Bow Street Court. All three were charged with conspiracy after demonstators clashed with police during a protest march at Whitehall over the recent deaths in Londonderry. (Photo by Michael Webb/Keystone/Getty Images)

7th November 1979: Iranians demonstrate in Grosvenor Square, London, for the extradition of the Shah from the USA. (Photo by Stuart Nicol/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

7th March 1963: Actors Tracy Reed and George C Scott take time off the set of ‘Dr Strangelove’, being filmed at Shepperton Studios, for a discussion with director Stanley Kubrick. The film’s full title is ‘Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb’. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Human rights activist Peter Tatchell (centre) at a vigil organized by the direct action gay rights campaigning group OutRage! in Old Compton Street, Soho, London, 7th May 1999. The gathering follows the bombing of the Admiral Duncan, a gay pub on the street, by Neo-Nazi David Copeland on April 30th. (Photo by Steve Eason/Getty Images)