A U.S. Marine covers the face of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with a U.S. flag in Baghdad, Iraq April 9, 2003. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)





A Muslim woman weeps on the shoulder of a Bosnian soldier in the destroyed downtown area of Vitez, Bosnia, Sunday, May 2, 1993. Vitez, where British U.N. soldiers are based, has been the site of intense fighting in recent weeks. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, threatened with Western military intervention and pressure from his patrons in Yugoslavia, approved a plan Sunday to end a year of ethnic warfare. (Photo by David Brauchli/AP Photo)





This 12 April, 1981, NASA photo shows the first launching of the space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Columbia carried astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. The space center is 600 miles (965kms) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the Wright Brothers first flew under power. (Photo by AFP Photo/NASA)





Chinese police try in vain to contain a huge crowd of student marchers during a pro-reform demonstration on Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijing. (Photo by Sadayuki Mikami/AP Photo)





Liberian factional fighters loyal to Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) fire a high caliber machine gun at rival fighters loyal to Roosevelt Johnson, near the Barclay Training Center compound in downtown Monrovia Saturday, May 4, 1996. Despite the evacuation of Johnson from Monrovia to Accra, Ghana, Friday, heavy fighting continued in the Liberian capital city. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)





Ethnic Albanian refugees cross the Kosovo-Macedonia border at the Blace checkpoint, Tuesday, May 4, 1999. More than 675,000 ethnic Albanians have poured out of Kosovo since the NATO airstrikes began on March 24, many say they were forced out by roving bands of Serbs and are alleging mass atrocities. Thousands more refugees streamed out to Albania and Macedonia on Monday. (Photo by John McConnico/AP Photo)





Former Beatle Ringo Starr with wife Barbara Bach, May 16, 1983. (Photo by AP Photo/Pizac)





Moviemakers Steven Spielberg, left, and George Lucas , the two men responsible for the six most popular films of all time sign their names in cement Wednesday, May 16, 1984 during festivities at Mann 's Chiness theatre in Hollywood. (Photo by Wally Fong/AP Photo)





In this May 16, 1989 file photo, medics rush a Beijing university student from Tiananmen Square after he collapsed on the third day of a hunger strike in Beijing. A quarter century after the Communist Party's attack on demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the ruling party prohibits public discussion and 1989 is banned from textbooks and Chinese websites. (Photo by Sadayuki Mikami/AP Photo)





A young Cambodian boy, wearing a Khmer Rouge cap, looks out through barbed wire Sunday, May 3, 1998, at a refugee camp near Huay Samran, Thailand. Refugees fleeing the fighting between Khmer Rouge and Cambodia forces continue to seek safety in Thailand. (Photo by David Longstreath/AP Photo)





Tammy Holmgren huddles beneath a highway underpass with her two daughters, Megan, 6, right, and Katlyn, 2, partially obscured, as a tornado approaches along the H.E. Bailey Turnpike outside Newcastle, Okla., Monday, May 3, 1999. The family was uninjured, but the tornado left a trail of death and destruction through central Oklahoma. (Photo by J. Pat Carter/AP Photo)





Liberian rebels loyal to Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) run from the front-line carrying a wounded comrade as rival ULIMO soldiers loyal to Roosevelt Johnson pushed them back from the Barclay Training Center in downtown Monrovia Monday, May 6, 1996. Fighting continued in the Liberian capital into the afternoon past a noon cease-fire called by warlords, prompting US Marines to fire at rebels battling in the streets near the US embassy. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)





Zairian villagers watch as Hutu refugees are evacuated by train from the Biaro refugee camp south of Kisangani Tuesday, May 6, 1997. Tuesday the train evacuations began anew following Sunday's overcrowding accident in which 91 refugees were killed. (Photo by John Moore/AP Photo)





Iraqi Kurdish refugees seek shelter 16 April 1991 in public works tubing near Chouchani. Iraqi Kurdish families are fleeing from their homes to the “safety” of the mountains along the Turkish-Iraqi and Iranian borders, with little to protect them from the cold as fighting intensifies between Saddam Hussein' soldiers and the Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas. Several thousand British, American and French troops moved 22 April into northern Iraq to prepare camps as part of operation “Provide Comfort” for the 500,000 Kurdish refugees. (Photo by Joel Robine/AFP Photo)





A boy, Kalashnikov in hand, leads a group of Charles Taylor's soldiers during heavy fighting around Monrovia's main military barracks, 16 April 1996 in Liberia. At least 15 corpses were scattered around. (Photo by Christophe Simon/AFP Photo)





An unidentified woman is helped through floodwaters by Civil Defense volunteers after she left her home which was destroyed by rains attributed to El Nino, in Ecuador's Manabi province, approximatly 124 miles (200 kms) north of Guayaquil, Wednesday May 6, 1998. According to Ecuadorean officials flooding and heavy rains attributed to the El Nino weather phenomenon have caused the over 200 deaths and left over 30,000 people homeless. (Photo by Mauro Andino/AP Photo).





An ethnic Albanian refugee child crys on the shoulder of her mother as she takes shelter against the rain in a small camp, outside Kukes, a northern Albanian border town, 13 April 1999. The refugee family arrived two days ago in Albania after fleeing the town of Kosovo Polje in Yugoslavia. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AFP Photo)





Lunar Rover during Apollo 16 moon landing, April 1972. (Photo by AP Photo)





Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein listens as his charges are read by Chief Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Monday May 15, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. The chief judge formally charged Saddam Hussein on Monday with murder, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 people in a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s, bringing the trial of the ousted Iraqi leader into a new phase. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/AP Photo)





Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper broke into a broad grin at the greeting given to him aboard the carrier Kearsarge after his 22-orbit earth flight in May of 1963. Cooper and his spacecraft, Faith 7, were lifted from the Pacific Ocean by a helicopter from the Kearsarge on May 17, 1963. It was the longest U.S. space flight to date. (Photo by AP Photo)





People holding a huge Russian flag flash victory signs on August 22, 1991 on Red Square in Moscow as they celebrate the failure of a hardline communist- led coup which nearly toppled Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup was headed 19 August by the members of the self- styled “committee for the state of emergency” or the “gang of eight”, including Soviet Vice President Gennady Yanayev and KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov. The same day, thousands in Moscow, Leningrad and other cities answered Russian Republic President Boris Yeltsin' s call to raise barricades against tanks and troops. (Photo by Anatoly Sapronenkov/AFP Photo)





A New Transit Authority police officer and his german shepherd partner ride the subway in New York, USA, 1990s. (Photo by Tom Nebbia/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)





Prostitutes working on 10th Ave in New York, USA on June 29, 1997. (Photo by Jon Naso/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)