Cars racing in the Royal Automobile Club's Tourist Trophy Race at Belfast, Northern Ireland on September 1, 1934. The race was won by Charles Dodson who drove at nearly 75 m.p.h. in a M.G. Magnetter NE. (Photo by AP Photo/Putnam)

A Boy Scout wearing a gas mask is ready for action as a war messenger, somewhere in England, September 1, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)

When there's a traffic jam in Shanghai, China, it's one of those affairs which would give the western world's traffic policemen a severe headache. Rush hour traffic jam in Shanghai, China, with rickshaws trying to force their way through a narrow street, on September 1, 1938. Behind this sea of man-pulled carriages, motor cars and omnibuses add to the confusion. (Photo by AP Photo)

The Nazi invasion of Poland and the start of World War II were just a few hours old when Fuehrer Adolf Hitler went before the Reichstag in Berlin on September 1, 1939, to deliver a war tirade without a formal declaration of war. From left are: Julius Schaub, SS leader and Hitler's personal adjutant; Dr. Hans Lammers, chief of Reich Chancellery; and press chief Dr. Otter Dietrich. Behind Hitler is Herman Goering, German Field Marshall. (Photo by AP Photo)

A crowd reads newspaper headlines of "Bombs Rain On Warsaw" as they stand outside the U.S. State Department building where diplomats hold a conference on war conditions in Europe in Washington, D.C., September 1, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)

A woman and a young girl pick cotton by hand in Stoneville, Miss., September 1, 1936. (Photo by AP Photo)

Unsettled life in Europe failed to change the slow pace of life on the Isle of Capri, off Naples, Italy. Some of the socialites who have come there to relax enjoy an aquatic luncheon serviced in the cool Mediterranean, September 1, 1939. Swimming waiters push out the floating tables bearing meals which include wine and spaghetti. In the background are the rocks of Faraglioni. (Photo by Hamilton Wright/AP Photo)

Detective Joseph Vigurie of New Orleans views the crumpled body of Willie Stevens confessed rapist of little girls, who was shot and killed in the rear seat of a police car, September 1, 1943 in New Orleans, La. while fighting with Vigurie and screaming “I want to die”. Stevens was killed by Vigurie, who was exonerated by his superiors. (Photo by AP Photo)

A dragster supercharger hits cameraman Joe Rooks of Bowling Green, Ohio, in the back at the U.S. Nationals N.H.R.A. drag races in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday, September 1, 1979. Rooks was knocked flat by the heavy blower from a dragster that turned over and disintegrated near Rooks. Rooks died en route to the hospital. (Photo by Chuck Robinson/AP Photo)

Musician Stevie Wonder sits amidst the eerie rocks of the Bisti Badlands in Farmington, New Mexico, September 1, 1982, filming a commercial that probably will never be seen in the United States. (Photo by AP Photo)

A little boy shouts “Earthquake!” during a shouting contest, part of the annual evacuation drill on the National Disaster Prevention Day on September 1, 1986. The contest was aimed at teaching youngsters the importance of telling neighbors quickly and loudly of a disaster when it hits. The drill is annually conducted through out the country on the day marking the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit the Japanese capital and its vicinity on September 1, 1923, killing more than 104,000 people. (Photo by Sadayuki Mikami/AP Photo)

In a September 1, 1966 file photo, a model looks at the Sinclair Micro vision set, a pocket size television set designed by Clive Sinclair that can go anywhere and claims to be the world's smallest TV, at Earls Court, London. The rectangular face plate of the cathode tube has a diagonal measurement of two inches. It's been nearly a quarter of a century since the last big jump in battery technology, which led to the lithium ion. As 21st century technology strains to be ever faster, cleaner and cheaper, the battery, an invention from more than 200 years ago keeps holding it back. (Photo by AP Photo)