St. Nick visits with two German brothers, ca. 1948. (Photo by Kirn Vintage Stock/Corbis via Getty Images)





A Christmas display outside the premises of W Tickner Fish and Poultry sales in St Thomas Street, Derby, UK taken sometime before the first world war. (Photo by W.W. Winter/The Guardian)





In this July 26, 1967 file photo, an Army soldier stands guard as men captured in the vicinity of the 10th Police Precinct in Detroit peer from under a garage door awaiting transfer. The precinct building came under fire in daylight hours and an Army force, using armed personnel carriers and tanks came to the police station. (Photo by AP Photo)





Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Leroy Satchel Paige poses in the dugout at New York's Yankee Stadium August 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. Paige was considered a top prospect for the major leagues after baseball's commissioner ruled that there were no provisions barring players of color from the majors. (Photo by AP Photo)





Motorists make their way along Route 95 southbound toward Philadelphia International Airport, August 10, 1987 as a fireball from a seven-alarm fire in a petroleum tank at a Chevron USA Inc. Refinery erupts behind them. (Photo by Rusty Kennedy/AP Photo)





Striking upstate dairy farmers dump milk from a truck near Mount Upton, N.Y., on August 18, 1939 during the Great Depression. (Photo by AP Photo)





This shocking picture shows Joan Wills screaming as she comes within range of a zone in the water electrified by the “Neptune's Fork” held by Henry T. Burkey in Hollywood, Calif., where he lives, August 22, 1952. Burkey, an electrical engineer, designed the gadget for use by victims of shipwrecks of air crashes over shark-infested waters. The device consists of two electrodes connected to batteries in the waterproof handle. The electrodes create an electrified zone in the water to repel attacking fish. He says the device is shockproof to the user. (Photo by Don Brinn/AP Photo)





This television set, retailing for $100, is reported the first moderately priced receiver manufactured in quantity. Rose Clare Leonard watches the screen, which reproduces a 5x7 image, as she tunes in at the first public post-war showing at a New York department store, August 24, 1945. (Photo by Ed Ford/AP Photo)





Charles D. Brown, fills a vial with BCG, a vaccine against tuberculosis, on December 2, 1947 at a state-operated laboratory at Albany, N.Y. (Photo by AP Photo)





French children salvaging food from the cars of a wrecked train climb on a Moselle River railway bridge destroyed by the retreating Germans in France on December 5, 1944. (Photo by AP Photo)





Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers star since breaking into Major League baseball in 1947, is shown with his wife, Rachel, and their four-year-old son, Jackie Jr., in their home in Stamford, Conn., December 13, 1956. Robinson, 37, holds a banner for the rival New York Giants baseball club to which he was traded for relief pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 in cash. Robinson retired in January, voiding the trade. (Photo by John Lindsay/AP Photo)





A crew of a U.S. cruiser gather below decks on December 28, 1944 while at sea to witness an exhibition of motion pictures distributed by the U.S. Navy Motion Picture Exchange. (Photo by AP Photo)





Harlequin print silk pants and matching bare bodice halter top with huge puffy sleeves and a deep neckline is designed by John Weitze. The outfit is presented at the American Designers spring preview in New York City on December 28, 1964. (Photo by AP Photo)





Cuban boxer Florentino Fernandez, left, swings a punch that contorts the face of his opponent, American Johnny Featherman, during their middleweight fight in Miami Beach, Florida, on December 30, 1965. The referee stopped the fight in the fifth round after Fernandez heavy blows opened deep cuts on Featherman's nose and eyes. It was the Cuban fighters 31st knockout in the 38 fights he has won. (Photo by AP Photo)





An unhappy looking Chinese boy sheltering from the intense heat of the midday sun and holding smaller hats around December 9, 1930. (Photo by AP Photo)





J. Walter Christie, right, 70-year-old inventor, shows tank to Governor James M. Curley on December 14, 1937. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this December 15, 1941 file photo, Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn't mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lee was born in the U.S. (Photo by AP Photo)





Teresa Whelan, Helen Corbin, Sgt. Lawrence Lovell, Jane Peterson and Julie Bellus were into this army truck's “innards” in no time flat when Sgt. Lovell, as their instructor, gave advice in car repair, in Fort Lewis, Wash., December 16, 1940. To lift heavy objects from the truck for repairs there would be a mechanical crane which the girls could operate easily. When asked how they would like to have plenty of work on their hands, one girl replied, “Oh, this is fun. Give us a broken down truck and we'll show you”. (Photo by Paul Wagner/AP Photo)





Saundra Brown, 28, the first black woman on the Oakland police force gets instructions on how to shoot a shotgun from the hip by police range master Adolph Bischofberger on December 16, 1970 in Oakland, California. Saundra graduates on Friday near the top of her class after 15 weeks of criminal law, report writing, first aid, firearms training and defensive tactics. “I really feel very confident now”, she said, “but before I was totally afraid. I didn't want to be around a gun”. (Photo by Robert Klein/AP Photo)





Teenage girls are all steamed up these days about straight hair. The steam iron is replacing the huge rollers on which countless teens slept every night to achieve the height and curls fashionable until. The same girls endure having their hair stretched to absolute straightness on the ironing board, and then ironed to keep it that way. Unlike the roller setting, this takes teamwork. Gay Stilley, 14, goes through an ironing session with a couple of her friends at the Stilley Home in Glen Oaks, Queens, New York City on December 23, 1964. With a wary eye, Gay tries to watch the straightening process as one friend stretches her hair with a comb and another does the ironing, in the Stilley kitchen. (Photo by Marty Zimmerman/AP Photo)