A young girl wearing a halloween mask, circa 1955. (Photo by Jacobsen/Three Lions/Getty Images)





Postcard features a group of party goers in Halloween costumes, early twentieth century. (Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images)





East Berliners crossing into the West Berlin on November 11, 1989 at the Potsdamer Platz, Germany. (Photo by Kai Wiedenhoefer)





In this October 9, 1978 file photo, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. Forty years ago, Iran's ruling shah left his nation for the last time and an Islamic Revolution overthrew the vestiges of his caretaker government. The effects of the 1979 revolution, including the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ensuing hostage crisis, reverberate through decades of tense relations between Iran and America. (Photo by AP Photo/File)





Thousands of sampans and junks are packed like sardines at Aberdeen sampan harbor on Hong Kong island. Many of these boats are not seaworthy and are used as homes in a land-hungry city and island where practically every square inch of area is used for living quarters, July 31, 1962. (Photo by AP Photo)





Rescue workers inspect the wreckage of a Cessna Citation airplane in Akron, Ohio, on August 2, 1979. New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, piloting the plane, was killed in the crash. Two passengers survived. (Photo by Madeline Drexler/AP Photo)





A prohibition-thirsty American Legionnaire goes into action in Windsor, Canada August 17, 1954, where the beer flowed freely, during the 1931 Legion convention across the river and the border in Detroit, Mich. His sign reads: “You have liberty – we have a state – we want Beer”. Legion officials have decreed a “safe and sane” convention this year, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by AP Photo)





Santa Claus in the person of Glen Campbell leads Bob Hope and members of his entertainment troupe in “A Christmas Carol” December 15, 1971 in Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by AP Photo)





Tail section of UAL airliner blocks intersection of two streets in heavily populated area of Brooklyn, December 16, 1960 after plane crashed as it approached Idlewild Airport for a landing. A section of planes wing can be seen at base of tree at right center. In background is block of apartment set ablaze when plane crash. Intersection at 7th avenue and sterling place. (Photo by AP Photo)





Dr. William Beebe, noted naturalist, Simon Lake, vet submarine inventor, and Frank Crilley, deep sea diver, left to right, pictured aboard the aboard the Explorer, a midget undersea craft during a demonstration held off City Island, New York, December 20, 1932. The Explorer which is a compromise between a diving bell and a submarine is only 22 feet long with a 6-foot beam. (Photo by AP Photo)





Roy Harley, one of the survivors of the Uruguayan plane that crashed into the Andes in Chile, is embraced by his mother moments after his rescue in the mountains, December 23, 1972. (Photo by AP Photo)





French skier Christine Goitschel gets ready to clear a gate during the first run of the women's slalom 01 February 1964 at the Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck. Christine Goitschel finished second behind her younger sister, Marielle, but set the best time in the second run to capture the gold medal in front of her sister. (Photo by STAFF/AFP Photo/Getty Images)





Brazilian commercial airline pilot Gerson Macial de Britto, sketches the object he said accompanied his VASP Airlines jet for one hour and 20 minutes, at a news conference, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, February 10, 1982. Britto said the occurrence happened during a regularly scheduled run between Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro Monday night. (Photo by AP Photo)





Children at Point Pleasant Junior High School, West Virginia, denied themselves Christmas presents last year and sent the $50 saved as a result to the King, asking that it should,"be given to some boy or girl of your realm who needs help. The king asked the Mayoress of Windsor to select six evacuee children now billeted in Windsor, and to take them out to the shops with the $50, now changed to £12 6s 11d, and fit them out with clothes or anything else they needed. One of the little evacuees being fitted with boots on the shopping tour, while the lady Mayoress of Windsor supervises the purchase and the other little evacuees look on in Windsor February 15, 1941. (Photo by AP Photo)





Coroner Samuel R. Gerber of Cleveland, Ohio, who has investigated Cleveland's 12 “torso murders”, examines a plastic dummy which he received in the mail, shown February 16, 1939. “Somebody”, he opined, “possibly the torso killer himself, is playing grim jokes on me”. (Photo by AP Photo)





Engineer Clarence Bouchard cuts a record for a congressman in Washington on February 21, 1948. Every week senators and congressmen record more than 700 speeches for the people back home. (Photo by Bill Chaplis/AP Photo)





Large numbers of unemployed people, carrying posters drawing attention to their for winter relief, lay down in Oxford Street, London, January 17, 1939, stopping all the traffic. (Photo by AP Photo)





Dick Watson, left, consuming 132 clams in ten minutes during a “Clam Bowl” gulping contest, beats Joe Silva, right, of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., who ate 127 in the same space of time in Seattle, Wash., January 24, 1948. A time-keeper, left standing, keeps an eye on the clock as others watch the event. (Photo by AP Photo)





A pair of bound hands and a breathing hole in the snow at Yangji, Korea, January 27, 1951 reveal the presence of the body of a Korean civilian shot and left to die by retreating Communists during the Korean War. (Photo by Max Desfor/AP Photo)





It isn't often that celebrities, visiting the City Hall in New York City, pause to get a shine from the roving bootblacks in City Hall Park. But Mary Pickford did, when she visited Mayor F.H. LaGuardia in New York on January 31, 1934, and it was a big moment for Joe “Fat” Barbera. Joe is at his job while bystanders look on. (Photo by AP Photo)