This Day - April 29th No 14 (1919-1951)

Title reads: “This Day - April 29th“. Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century. April 1921 - Warriors’ Day. Entertainers Vi Loraine, Bobby Hale and Leslie Henson perform a show to raise money for ex-servicemen. April 1919 Various shots boxer Bombardier Billy Wells fighting and training. April 1948 Australia v Worcestershire cricket match. Various shots of Don Bradman. April 1920 Shots of the ’Petrol horse car’ It is a fence leaping stunt car. April 1927 Shots of of car which can get into car parking spaces sideways. April 1926 Various shots of Benito Mussolini in Tripoli, Libya. His damaged nose shows that this was shot shortly after a failed assassination attempt. April 1930 Shots of the Wedding of Mussolini’s daughter to Count Galeazzo Ciano. April 1933 PM Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Ishbel visit American President Franklin D Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House, Washington DC, USA. April 1933 Funeral of Romany Gypsy fortune teller Gypsy R
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