Gordon Richards (1904 – 1986) champion jockey curling at St Moritz, Switzerland, 9th January 1928. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)





One of the thousand of protesters who took part in an anti Trident rally Sunday, August 9, 1982 displays a flag supporting the movement. Religious leaders denounced the buildup of nuclear weapons as protestors waited on banks, beaches and in boats for the arrival of the nation's first Tridents nuclear submarine. (Photo by AP Photo/BRS)





Working at a lathe, an employee at the Nikon factory machines a lens barrel mount in Tokyo, December 28, 1951. Cameras will be one of Japan's major export items in the post-peace era. (Photo by Bob Schutz/AP Photo)





Russell A. Larson, left, Massachusetts Institute of Technology project manager for the lunar module flight program, and David G. Hoag director of Apollo Group MIT Draper Lab, point to computer in lunar module model designed for a safer way to land men on the moon for Apollo 13 in Cambridge, Massachusetts February 24, 1970. (Photo by J. Walter Green/AP Photo)





The witching hour for Karen Dolin arrives as makeup man Charles Gemora puts finishing touches on the rubber gauntlets she wears for her movie debut in Hollywood, February 7, 1961. Gemora designed the witch's horror mask which hides Karen's beauty, along with the others used in the film. (Photo by AP Photo)





French minister of war veterans Mr. Sanguinetti will attend commemoration ceremonies for the 50th anniversary of the battle of Verdun. French soldiers at Nixeville in France, April 8, 1916 coming back from the front of Fort de Vaux. (Photo by AP Photo)





Eight-year-old Ann Hill registers a startled expression upon receiving one of the first Salk polio vaccine shots in Tallahassee, FL., April 18, 1955. Similar shots will go to 2,800 children in Tallahassee, which had a polio epidemic last year. (Photo by AP Photo)





A newsman wears a rubber mask similar to that worn by seven bandits who robbed Brink's armored car firm in Boston of $1, 50,000, January 18, 1950. The reporter points to name plate on first of six locked doors opened by the gunmen. Mask was one of several purchased in joke shops by newsmen and police to see if they resembled description given by Brink's employees. (Photo by AP Photo)





Seventy-one-year-old Luciano Sabella, for 54 years in the Fisherman Wharf colony at his sea food establishment, from where he is now barred under orders of the U.S. Attorney General, restricting Italian aliens from waterfront areas of San Francisco, January 30, 1942. His wife and 12 children, one of whom serves in the Army, are all citizens, but Sabella never obtained his final citizenship papers. An estimated 1,400 Italians are effected by the ban. (Photo by AP Photo)





American paratroopers float to earth behind Communist lines in the Munsan area northwest of Seoul, Korea, March 23, 1951. The skytroopers were joined by an armored column as the Reds attempted to surround and wipe them out. (Photo by AP Photo)





A hint of Spring Fever is evidenced by this passerby tipping his hat to a store fixture mannequin on a State St. sidewalk in downtown Chicago on March 23, 1978. The mannequin was awaiting pickup to be transported. (Photo by AP Photo)





A plane sits in the upper deck of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium after crashing into the stands, on December 19, 1976, during a game between the Baltimore Colts and the Pittsburgh Steelers. (Photo by AP Photo)





Considerable interest has been taken in movements of the United States Pacific Fleet as major units of which left their base at Honolulu on July 19, 1940, under sealed orders. After engaging in regular drills and maneuvers within 250 miles of Hawaii, the fleet returned to Lahaina Roads. (Photo by AP Photo)





Guns, tanks, bomb, ambulances, half tracks, lorries and vehicles of every description now are being got ready for the second front at a U.S. service of supply Ordnance depot somewhere in England, on March 3, 1944. Stacks of 1000 pounders at Invasion city. (Photo by AP Photo)





German Chancellor Adolf Hitler is shown during his visit to Eger, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1938, when he visited the third zone of the occupied Sudeten German territories where he was jubilantly cheered. (Photo by AP Photo)





When homeless and orphan boys arrive at the home in Nimura maintained by the Salesian Brothers with the aid of GIs, they are directed to wash up in Tokyo on October 14, 1946. Left to right, the Americans are: Pvt. Gerald Kleeman of Chicago; Pfc. Richard L. Kobleur of Savannah, Ga.; T/5 Harry Siemonsma of Santa Ana, Calif.; Pfc. Richard J. McGuire Jr., of Hoboken, N.J.; T/5 Frank Rahfeldt of Nevada, Iowa; and Pfc. John L. Kohler of Brown City, Michigan. (Photo by AP Photo)





Moroccan volunteers rest with their weapons stacked nearby in Tagounit on the Algerian-Moroccan border, October 26, 1963. Morocco announced that a four-power summit conference has been scheduled in Mali to settle the border conflict. (Photo by AP Photo)





A Soviet flag is burned by young Jewish militants, including members of the Jewish Defense League, during a fiery demonstration in New York, September 8, 1972. The JDL proclaims itself the most violent Jewish group in the U.S. and it has caused a deep and bitter controversy over how to be “a nice Jewish boy”. Strongest criticism of it has come from Jews themselves. (Photo by Marty Lederhandler/AP Photo)





Yoshiro Nakamatsu, 29, president of the Tokyo University Inventor Society – with his invention for the movie industry, which, attached to a standard film projector, tailors the size of the screen to meet the needs of each scene. Nakamatsu's invention attaches to a standard projector, automatically controlling width of picture projection in Tokyo on September 9, 1957. (Photo by Mitsunori Chigita/AP Photo)





A Palestinian woman brandishes helmets during a memorial service in Beirut, September 27, 1982, for victims of Lebanon's Sabra refugee camp massacre. She claimed the helmets were worn by those who massacred hundreds of her countrymen. (Photo by Bill Foley/AP Photo)