h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm quite surprised nobody has yet mentioned the pictures of Checkpoint Charlie the night the Berlin Wall was pulled down.

flinch, for the u.k. version how about that 'photo of lady Di in the see-through skirt, taken b4 her marriage while she was a nursery school helper?

King Kong on the Empire State Building with Faye Ray in his paw.

Geoff Hurst in mid air with his cheeks puffed out having just fired off the 'they think it's all over' shot.

The WTC image I think I'll most remember is the person waving the handkerchief out the window from one of the upper floors just before the tower collapsed. It was repeated on news coverage a lot after the towers fell and summed up the kind of desperate, ultimately futile hope which seems to most characterise the event and aftermath.

Since the tennis player seems to be a British image, she seemed worth tracking down. I have put a link to her in my Links page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A545320

Ben

I've just found out the was a TV show called '5 minutes pour une image' (i assume it was on French TV - perhaps Canadian) in which tthey had chosen 100 important photos of the 20th
century every evening, some people talked about 1 of these 100 photos for 5 mn. Does anyone remember this? Or know what pictures they chose?