January 4th PowerPoint Show by

Andrew

A look at various events that took place on this day, January 4, photographed over the past century.

Today’s collection includes scenes from World War II, voiceover work for Popeye cartoons, President Franklin Roosevelt’s massive globe, a rush to buy American candy bars in the USSR, a meeting between Newt Gingrich and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and more.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt are seen up Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C., on January 4, 1937.

A German Messerschmitt plane brought down by French aviators is exhibited in Paris, visible for the payment of a small fee for the benefit of French Airmens Welfare Fund on January 4, 1940.

A striking view, taken from the roof of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on January 4, 1941, showing how the famous building was ringed by fires and devastated buildings on the night of the great Blitz.

Voices for the movie cartoon characters “Popeye” and “Olive Oyl” are Jack Mercer and his wife Margie, of Schenley Park in Miami, Florida, are shown adding their voices to a cartoon on January 4, 1942.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a 54-inch, 800-pound globe which was installed near his White House office desk in Washington on January 4, 1943.

Flying fortresses, flying at high altitude in a practice bombing raid over England leave vapor trails in the sky, on January 4, 1943.

A column of captured German and Italian prisoners being marched back to base at the end of a day’s fighting in Tunisia on January 4, 1943, guarded by fighting French and American troops.

A German sailor is buried at Sea, under the American flag and with services read by a coast guard officer on January 4, 1944, from the deck of a coast guard-manned destroyer escort. One of three escorts which blasted his U-boat to the bottom in battle after the U-boat had torpedoed an American tanker. The commanding officer of the Nazi sub, one of 12 survivors picked up by the coast guardsmen, authorized use of the American flag for the burial when no German flag was available.

Firefighting crews of an unnamed U.S. carrier battle flames on two planes, which were hit by Japanese bombs in the Philippines, on January 4, 1945 while on the flight deck of the flat top.

Last UN tanks and vehicles crossing Han River bridge before the bridge was blown by US Army Engineers on January 4, 1951, following the Battle of Uijeongbu in South Korea.

Shirley Schaefer points to the chassis of a tubeless portable radio in Chicago on January 4, 1955. Henry F. Argento, of the Raytheon Manufacturing Co., said, “It will operate for a full year on one set of four conventional flashlight batteries.”

To keep the kids happy when out driving, Jack Fletcher, a designer at 21st Century Home, has installed three miniature steering wheels and a plastic windshield in their car in West Covina, California, on January 4, 1955.

Elvis Presley, 21, takes his pre-induction written examination as he is processed for the U.S. Army in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 4, 1957.

A young unidentified woman patrols near a headquarters building in Havana, January 4, 1959. The Cuban Revolution had just come to an end, with Fidel Castro’s forces entering Havana in early January.

Actor Ronald Reagan answers questions at a news conference in Los Angeles, California, on January 4, 1965, after announcing that he will campaign for the Republican nomination for governor of California.

A U.S. paratrooper moves away after setting fire to house on bank of the Vaico Oriental River, 20 miles west of Saigon on January 4, 1966, during a “scorched earth” operation against the Viet Cong in South Vietnam.

A Muslim militia man aims his automatic rifle at Christian forces on the other side of the Green Line in Beirut, Lebanon, on January 4, 1982.

Soviet shoppers waited more than two hours to reach the counter to buy American brands of Chocolate candy bars, such as Snickers, Mounds, and Milky Way, in downtown Moscow on January 4, 1991.

Princess Diana of Great Britain talks to children in her beach group, including son Harry, left, at Banana Bay Beach in St. Kitts, in the Caribbean on January 4, 1993.

A father and son run to avoid snipers across a sandbagged bridge in the Olympic village area of Dobrinja, near Sarajevo, on January 4, 1993.

Colombian star midfielder Carlos "Pibe" Valderrama speaks on a mobile phone to a local radio station accompanied by his agent J. Castano (right) after his arrival in Buenos Aires on January 4, 1995.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia gestures while meeting with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 4, 1995. The Rangers were invited to entertain congressional children