Members of the National Military Organization Irgun Zvai Leumi are armed with rifles, revolvers and automatic weapons as they take position on the rooftop of a Jewish house in case of Arab attack on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border in the Manshiah Jewish quarter in Tel Aviv on December 27, 1947. The Zionist guerrilla force began an armed revolt against British rule in Palestine. (Photo by James Pringle/AP Photo)





The first detachment of British troops arriving in the Saar to police the district's plebiscite in January, in which Saar residents will vote whether to go under French, German or league of nations rule. Troops from other nations also will staff the international police force. A railway porter guiding the first British troops through a street of Saarbrucken, December 19, 1934. (Photo by AP Photo)





PFC. Herman D. Kottwitz, Belfast NY, and his sentry dog “Match” maintain a vigilant watch overlooking the Dalat Valley, Vietnam during the Vietnam War on December 7, 1965. The dog and handler had previously served together at an Army Air Defense missile site in Minnesota. (Photo by AP Photo)





Firefighting crews of an unnamed U.S. carrier battle flames in two planes, which were hit by Japanese bombs in the Philippines, January 4, 1945 while on the flight deck of the flat top. (Photo by AP Photo)





British soldiers stand guard as a department store goes up in flames in the center of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on January 4, 1972. In center background, a fireman directs water into the blaze. The fire followed explosion of a bomb planted in the building by Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists. (Photo by AP Photo)





Hamatapa, a New Guinea native, is a bachelor decked out in his best finery on July 11, 1943. He carries a pipe in his bracelet, food in the nets, and chews betel nut. (Photo by AP Photo/Acme)





Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, and challenger, Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson, can hold no secrets from doctors examining them before their title bout later in the day at New York's Polo Grounds on July 29, 1957. At the examining room in winter garden theatre, a doctor checks Patterson's ear. Jackson, having his temperature checked, shushes a bystander. (Photo by Anthony Camerano/AP Photo)





The army balloon S-16 can be seen in the center of the photo during start of the race on June 8, 1926. American balloonist took first and second place. Location unknown. (Photo by AP Photo)





Damage done by crowd of 300 African Americans who stormed three business places after proprietor of restaurant, Troyan Tassei, allegedly shot and wounded Ulysses Brown, African American boy in Cleveland on June 13, 1935. (Photo by AP Photo)





Over a million persons sought relief from the 92.6 degree heat at Coney Island, New York on June 16, 1957, New York's hottest day in 1957. (Photo by John Lindsay/AP Photo)





Secretary of war Henry Stimson will draw from this goldfish bowl on October 29, 1917, the first number in a nationwide lottery to determine the order of calling men for military training under selective service. Secretary of war Newton D. Baker, right, in this scene from June 27, 1918, draws the first number in the world war 2nd draft. (Photo by AP Photo)





West German scientists have produced this simple optical instrument for measuring radio activity. Named the “atom eye”, it is like one half of a pair of field glasses, held to the eye by a rubber headband. A sensitive colored lens inside reacts to radioactivity, showing the degree an area or object is affected on a scale. The scale also shows how long a person can remain in the area without danger. It was shown for the first time at a news conference in Bonn, November 23, 1954. (Photo by AP Photo)





A Vietnamese mother, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Yen, holds her sick child as she pleads help from a fishing boat carrying her and 48 other refugees as they arrive at Khlong Yai, a village 220 miles southeast of Bankgkok, Thailand, November 30, 1977. The refugees were refused entry and the boat was towed back to sea. (Photo by Eddie Adams/AP Photo)





Danish personnel suffering from influenza occupy beds in temporary sick quarters set up in a gymnasium at Copenhagen's naval shipyard to handle the large amount of patients on October 12, 1957. On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, scientists around the world were scrambling to prevent the possibility of a pandemic after a nearly 50-year-old killer influenza virus was sent to thousands of labs, a decision that one researcher described as “unwise”. (Photo by AP Photo)





Native American OS-Ke-Non-Ton who has come to England to take one of the leading roles in Hiawatha, lectured at the Bishops Gate Institute in London, England, holds a pipe of peace on October 19, 1932. (Photo by AP Photo/Staff/Putnam)





Anne Bennett, left, and Nancy Sabalot sit on the barrel of an eight-inch rifle on the Naval Academy Grounds at Annapolis, Maryland, October 24, 1942. The big gun, which weighs 74,000 pounds, is destined for the scrap heap. Anne is the daughter of Rear Admiral A.C. Bennett, now in London, and Nancy is the daughter of Capt. A.C.J. Sabalot, Naval Attache in Vichy. (Photo by Gene Abbott/AP Photo)





A Lolo family pose for photographer, who accompanied the American rescue party near Sichang, in Sikang Province on October 31, 1946. Officers of the American Graves Registration Section are attempting to trace and rescue possible survivors of a B-29 which crashed during a flight over “The Hump”. (Photo by AP Photo)





The four-member British rock group the Kinks, from Muswell Hill, joke around with a double decker bus on a London street, England, September 7, 1964. Posing from left are, Dave Davies; Mick Avory, in driver's seat; Pete Quaife and Ray Davies. (Photo by AP Photo)





Actress Tina Louise, an advocate of yoga and meditation, sits on the floor of her home discussing the forthcoming birth of her first child in San Fernando Valley, Ca., on September 16, 1970. (Photo by AP Photo)





An unidentified elderly woman, who was knocked over during the melee after a shot was fired in the direction of President Ford, is comforted by a passerby in San Francisco, September 23, 1975. (Photo by AP Photo)