Photos: Today in History: Jan. 21
A look back at events and news around the world.
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Elizabeth pours empire champagne over the nose of the British Overseas Airways Corporation flagship, "Elizabeth of England" during christening ceremonies at London Airport in London, England on Jan. 21, 1947. The flagship will fly the London-Montreal route. (AP Photo)
ANNA BEGAY
Anna Begay, a Navajo Indian, walks the land she calls 'home', Friday, Jan. 21, 2000. Begay is facing eviction by Hopi Indian officials. On Feb. 1, the Hopi's regain official jurisdiction over a parcel of land in northeastern Arizona, that includes Begay's home. Both the Hopi's and the Navajos have lived on the land for centuries. On paper, it's the date on which the U.S. government can begin eviction proceedings against Navajo families who refuse to leave or signa lease agreement allowing them to remain. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Naval Disarmament Conference
Hoover
U.S. President Herbert C. Hoover laughs as he spears one of the five large Sailfish he caught on his vacation trip aboard the Sequoia in Florida waters, Jan. 21, 1933. The photograph is taken by the president's secretary, Lawrence Richey. (AP Photo)
Charles Lindbergh Kidnap case
Robert Grant, Jr., 19, New York City high school student, was photographed with a small brother and sister in his home Jan. 21, 1935 after he told police he had been kidnapped the night before in an effort to keep his father from providing an alibi for Bruno Hauptmann, accused kidnap-killer of the Lindbergh baby. Grant said his father had heard another man say he saw Hauptman in a Bronx bakery on the night of the kidnapping but that the man had refused to testify, and the Grants had been threatened. Police say his story is that he escaped his kidnapers in a traffic jam, when their auto was stopped. (AP Photo/ Tom Sande)
FLAGS ON FIFTH AVENUE
The British Empire Building is seen on the right in this southward view along Fifth Avenue in the Rockefeller Center area on January 21, 1936, in New York . The Flags are lowered to half-mast in tribute to the memory of British monarch King George V, who died the day before. (AP Photo)
Watchf Associated Press Domestic News Alabama United States APHS55356 "SCOTTSBORO" DEFENDANTS GO TO TRIAL
Seven of the nine "Scottsboro" black defendants, who went on trial January 21, 1936 for alleged attacks on two white women, are shown as they were taken into the courthouse in Decatur, Ala., following their arrival from Birmingham where they have been held in jail. The case has been in the courts for five years. Death sentences had previously been imposed on some of the defendants, but the sentences were set aside by the Supreme Court. (AP Photo)
Australia Don Bradman
Australian cricket captain Don Bradman rushing into the pavilion with a stump which he has seized as a souvenir at the end of the third test match at Melbourne, which Australia won, on Jan. 21, 1937. He is followed by the rest of the team and the last two English batsmen. (AP Photo)
Tom Farr and Jim Craddock
Tom Farr, left, is shown sending a low right against Jim Braddock, early in the Heavyweight battle, Jan. 21, 1921 in New York. (AP Photo)
China Japanese Soldiers
Smiling Japanese soldiers marching towards the Yellow River in Shantung province on their advance on the provincial capital of Tsinana-fu, China, on Jan. 21, 1938. They are wearing shoulder swimming belts and have just arrived on the banks of the river to find that the Chinese, retreating, have torn down the steel bridge. These men seem to be quite happy about the prospect of a long swim across the broad river however, until the erection of a Pontoon bridge to convey stores and provisions from one side to the other. (AP Photo)
Egypt King Farouk
King Farouk, before his wedding, walking with his right hand in an inner pocket, on Jan. 21, 1938. A young lady is trying to approach the young monarch but is being restrained by Hassanein Pacha, governor of the King’s household. Others seen in the crowd are applauding the young King. (AP Photo)
Boxer Dave Crowley
English featherweight boxer Dave Crowley during training in England, on Jan. 21, 1938. (AP Photo)
Radio Operators
Two radio operators, J.M. Sanner, left, and Fred Dawson, stay by their sets in the radio room of the Pan-American Airways Seaplane Base at Port Washington, N.Y. on Jan. 21, 1939. (AP Photo/John Drennan)
Enemy Spotters
Heavily-wrapped American Legion volunteers kept a cold vigil atop the Empire State Building, watching for "enemy bombers" in a test of New York and New England defense preparations in New York, Jan. 21, 1941. As planes sent from army fields were sighted, their number, speed and direction were reported to an army information center for analysis as to course.(AP Photo/John Lindsay)
German and Italian Prisoners
German and Italian prisoners, probably through no design of their own, formed a huge "V" in their March, Jan. 21, 1942 through the Libyan Desert on their way to Tobruk, and internment. The "V for victory" has often been used as an allied slogan. (AP Photo)
WWII England WAAFs Prepare Dinner
WAAFs, members of the Womens Auxiliary Forces, prepare dinner for U.S. troops in a mess hall somewhere in England, Jan. 21, 1943. Private First Class Rocco Pagliano, of Providence, R.I., lends a hand. (AP Photo)
WWII: USO CLubs
Seated around the table, left to right: Pvt. Michael Shigle, English seaman James Walsh, and English seaman Bernard Cox. Standing: Pvt. Pierre Fairjeon and Mrs. Charles De Rham at the oldest service man's club, The Dugout, in New York on Jan. 21, 1943. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi)
Herbert Hoover, C.C. Teague, Albert Goss
Former President Herbert Hoover, with C.C. Teague, left, and Albert Goss, right, at the dinner of the National Industrial Conference Board in New York City on Jan. 21, 1943, urged the importation of farm labor from Mexico and the release on furloughs of men in the armed services to plant and harvest crops as a means of averting a food crisis caused by labor shortages. Teague, president of the National Council of Farm Cooperatives, spoke along similar lines. Goss, master of the National Grange also spoke. (AP Photo)
WWII England Flying Fortress
American ground crew stack up incendiaries in front of the flying fortress The Rebel, at an airfield somewhere in England, on Jan. 21, 1944, in preparation for a raid on Germany. (AP Photo)
World War II
American GI's uncover grim evidencee of massacre of American POWs at Malmedy, Belgium, Jan. 21, 1945. (AP Photo)
Achille Tisdale, Paul Mason
On the steps of the former residence of the High Commissioner in Manila, P.I., where Japaese Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma is on trial as a war criminal, Maj. Achille Tisdale of Chicago, Ill. (left), reads to Associated Press Correspondent Paul Mason on Jan. 21, 1946 the diary he kept while he was a prisoner of the Japanese. Tisdale appeared as a prosecution witness. (AP Photo/MD)
Burma Communist Demonstration 1947
Shouting and waving banners, Red Flag communists advance on the Secretariat in Rangoon, Burma, Jan. 21, 1947, in a demonstration that erupted into disorder. Some two hundred people were injured and the Red Flag communist organization was declared illegal by the Burmese government. (AP Photo)
Cuba People
Crowd, estimated at 10,000, gathers in front of the Palace in Havana, Cuba Jan. 21, 1947, to hear President Ramon Grau San Martin address the nation, during a general work stoppage in protest against increased living costs. (AP Photo)
Gandhi
India's leader Mahatma Gandhi, 78, is carried from his main house to the Garden area after breaking a five-day fast in New Delhi, India on Jan. 21, 1948. Gandhi was shot and killed by an assassin on Jan. 30 while attending a prayer meeting at New Delhi. (AP Photo)
Veterans Administration Office
War veteran business has become a big business locally since V-J Day, as this view of the record section at the Veterans Administration regional office at the Sawtell Center in Los Angeles, bears witness, Jan. 21, 1948. Here, clerks search the cross file index of 600,000 names in attempting to fill the needs of veteran applying for aid of all kinds. (AP Photo/Don Brinn)
John Werket, Kenny Bartholomew, Bobby Fitzgerald, Ben Bagdade, Sonny Rupprecht, Ray Blum, Art Seaman, Ken Henry, Richard Solem
Members of the U.S. Olympic speed skating team and their manager take a rest during a practice session, Jan. 21, 1948, St. Moritz, Switzerland. From Left to right are John Werket, Kenny Bartholomew, Bobby Fitzgerald, (all of Minneapolis, Minn.) Ben Bagdade, Manager, from Detroit, Mich., Sonny Rupprecht, of St. Louis, Mo., Ray Blum, from Nutley, N.J.; Art Seaman, of Minneapolis, Minn., Ken Henry from Chicago, Ill., and Richard Solem, also of Chicago. (AP Photo)
MICKEY ROONEY MARTHA VICKERS
Actress Martha Vickers and Actor Mickey Rooney pose together in Hollywood, Ca., on January 21, 1949. The couple is engaged, however the bride will not be free to wed until late summer when her divorce from publicist A.C. Lyles is final, while Rooney 's divorce from Betty Jane Rase is scheduled to become final in May. (AP Photo)
Olivia De Havilland 1949
Winners of the 14th annual award of the New York Film Critics hold their scrolls at New York Music Hall on Jan. 21, 1949 in New York. Roberto Rossellini, Italian director of "Paisan," voted the best foreign language picture of 1948; Olivia De Havilland, film actress whose performance in "The Snake Pit" was voted the best in 1948, and John Houston, whose direction of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was named the best of 1948. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
Korean War
Half-frozen Thailand sailors wait on east Korean beach in enemy territory as a U.S. Navy helicopter takes off with injured crewmen for rescue destroyer standing offshore on Jan. 21, 1951 in Korea. The sailors had waded ashore after their corvette Prasae ran aground on January 7. This is one of a series of Navy photos on the rescue. (AP Photo)
Miniatures
Mrs. John Hintz of Alameda, Calif., is fulfilling a lifelong ambition in the near-completion of a miniature castle modeled after one overlooking the Rhine. The main parts are done but there is yet another wing to be added before she will be completely satisfied. Mrs. Hintz is at left holding a statuary piece destined for the courtyard on Jan. 21, 1951. The well furnished castle is set up in the center of a one-time bedroom, and extra furnishing overflow into cabinets on three sides of the room. She also has a large antique doll collection, some of which can be seen in the background at upper left. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)
Gina Lollobrigida
In slacks and sweater, Gina Lollobrigida, Italian film star, attends to her correspondence in her Rome apartment on Jan. 21, 1952. She plans to leave soon for the United States and a Hollywood career. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)
Tunisia
Soldiers of French Foreign Legion’s Third Paratroops Battalion round up Arabs in search of nationalist agitators in Kelibia, Tunisia on Jan. 21, 1952. (AP Photo/Max Nash)
Korean War Armistice
Rejected communism and refused repatriation at Panmunjom in Korea, Jan. 21, 1954, take punches at two effigies with signs on them reading ?apologize to anti-communist heroes.? The effigies are supposed to represent Malenkov and Mao Tse Tung, more than 22,000 Chinese and North Korean POWs who rejected repatriation were turned over to the United Nations by the Indian command. (AP Photo/Fred Waters)
Watchf Associated Press Sports College Basketball Men Ohio United States APHS55081 OSCAR ROBERTSON
Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati's sensational basketball star and the nation's leading scorer to date, has been pictured as measuring all the way from six feet, six inches in height down to as short as six feet, two inches. Here, in Cincinnati, Jan. 21, 1958, Joe Keefe, puts the measurement to Oscar and it comes out six feet, four and three-quarter inches. (AP Photo/Harvey Eugene Smith)
Karloff
Actor Boris Karloff plays a scarred victim of a Nazi concentration camp in "Frankenstein 1970," Jan. 21, 1958. (AP Photo/David F. Smith)
Festival Of St. Agnes
Pictured here are lambs being blessed at the Festival of St. Agnes in Rome, Italy, Jan. 21, 1958. (AP Photo)
KENNEDY
Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Mass., is seen wearing a hat as he puts on his coat at Mitchell Airport before flying to Omaha from Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 21, 1960. Kennedy formally announced today his intention to enter the April 5 Wisconsin presidential preference primary. (AP Photo)
PRESLEY ELVIS/MIRROR
Elvis Presley displays his Sergeants stripes in his home in Bad Nauheim, Germany, on Jan. 21, 1960. He was promoted to acting sergeant and squad leader in the 3rd armoured divisions 32nd armour scout platoon yesterday. His promotion doesnt mean a raise in pay. It is only temporary. As acting Sergeant Presley now commands a three-man reconnaisance team of his own. The singers service time is up in March. (AP Photo/Lindlar)
Rowan Johnson
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson talks with Carl Rowan at the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 1964. Rowan, 38, currently the U.S. Ambassador to Finland, is chosen by the president to be the next director of the U.S. Information Agency. (AP Photo)
Gina Lollobrigida
Actress Gina Lollobrigida holds up a 70-carat blue- white diamond before one eye as a monocle, valued at $1.5 million, in Rome on Jan. 21, 1965. The diamond was shown at Bulgari's jewelry exhibition. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
JACKIE GLEASON
Comedian Jackie Gleason clowns for photographers after a news conference in Miami Beach, Fla., on Jan. 21, 1966. (AP Photo)
Harrison Boyd
Newlyweds George Harrison and actress Patti Boyd pose in the back seat of a car after their marriage at the Epsom registery office outside London, England, on Jan. 21, 1966. Harrison, 22, and Boyd, 21, met in March, 1964 during filming of The Beatles' "Hard Day's Night." (AP Photo)
Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus, surging ahead on the front nine at Cypress Point, Jan. 21, 1967 in Pebble Beach putts for par birdie and misses from eight feet on the sixth green. He took par. Nicklaus ran into trouble on the back nine at Cypress where winds were between 35 and 45 miles an hour. (AP Photo)
Vietnam War
Sgt. Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Ga., emerges from Viet Cong Tunnel holding his silencer-equipped revolver with which he fired at guerrillas scurrying ahead of him underground. Payne and others of the 196th light infantry brigade probed the massive tunnel in Hobo Woods, South Vietnam, Jan. 21, 1967, and found detailed maps and plans of the enemy. The infantrymen who explored the complex are known as “Tunnel Rats.” They were called out of the tunnels on January 21, and Nauseating gas was pumped in. (AP Photo)
1960s Fashion
A coast of orange-red wool, worn over an afternoon dress of green and orange-red printed silk and lined with same fabric as dress, creation of Fontana Sisters of Rome fashions Italian coat, Jan. 21, 1967. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)
1960s Computers
“Robert Q”, a computer programmed to play chess, was beaten in its first competition with a human in the monthly Boylston Chess Club Tournament in Boston, Jan. 21, 1967. The computer was at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., while Carl Wagner, its opponent, made his moves at the YMCU, several miles away in Boston. The moves were relayed into the computer by teletype. Operating “Robert Q” is Allen Moulton, seated foreground, of Cumberland, Md., and R. William Gosper, right rear, of Pennsauken, N.J. (AP Photo)
Duke Ellington
Band leader Duke Ellington and his big band during his appearance on the stage at “Bal Pare”, a top social event in this Bavarian capital in Munich, Jan. 21, 1967 during the carnival season. Ellington received enthusiastic applause while on the stages. The band presently tours Germany in company of singer Ella Fitzgerald. (AP Photo/Klaus Frings)
Kauffman Fleming Wood
The four U.S. figure skating champions who will lead the country's skating team to the X Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, next month pose at final session of the U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Philadelphia, Pa., on Jan. 21, 1968. From left are, Ron Kauffman, his sister, Cynthia, Senior Pairs champions; and Peggy Gale Fleming of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Tim Wood, Detroit, Mich., women's and men's singles champions, respectively. (AP Photo)
Nixon Warren
Chief Justice Earl Warren, right, and Pres. Richard Nixon are seen at the podium where Warren swore in members of Nixon's staff, Jan. 21, 1969. (AP Photo)
Nixon Inaugural Ball 1969
Pres. Richard Nixon, center, greets the crowd at the Mayflower Hotel Inaugural Ball, Jan. 21, 1969, Washington, D.C. From left are Pat Nixon, daughter Tricia Nixon, Julie (hidden) and David Eisenhower. The rest of the group is unidentified. (AP Photo/Gary Settle)
PAN AMERICAN 747
Biafra Starvation 1970
Some of the 600 sick and starving children are seen at the crowded Niger Maternity Home in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Jan. 21, 1970. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle)
France Paris Georges Pompidou
A general view of the Elysee Palace Salle des Fetes in Paris, France as French President Georges Pompidou addresses a news conference on Jan. 21, 1971. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)
FONDA HAYDEN WEDDING
Actress Jane Fonda, center, looks at her husband Tom Hayden, second from right, as they chat with friends following their free-form wedding ceremony in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 21, 1973. Rev. Richard York, right, performed the marriage. At Fonda's left is her brother Peter Fonda with guitar. Some 100 friends sang Vietnamese songs and read poetry while a friend of the couple, Steve Jaffe, made this informal wedding photograph. (AP Photo/Steve Jaffe)
Chuck Wepner, Maynard Jackson, Julian Bond
World heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali lies on the canvas after his second ?knockdown in first round of fight on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1975 with Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. Holding up the mayor?s arm is the referee, Georgia state Sen. Julian Bond. Ali hit the deck twice in the abbreviated fight, both on soft right crosses that barely grazed his chin. It was all a promotional gimmick for black businessmen in the city. (AP Photo)
BRITISH AIRWAYS CONCORDE
This is a January 21, 1976 photo of a British Airways Concorde as it makes its inaugural flight from Heathrow Airport in London. British Airways suspended Concorde operations Tuesday after being told that British and French officials intended to revoke the supersonic plane's airworthiness certification, the airline said. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)
Thomas Henderson Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys' linebacker Thomas Anderson, left, and defensive tackle Randy White show their elation to a crowd gathered in Dallas on Monday, Jan. 8, 1979 to welcome the Cowboys home after their 28-0 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. Henderson, who predicted the win, saying the Rams didn't have enough class for the Super Bowl, scored the final touchdown against the Rams on a 68-yard interception play. The Cowboys will meet the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIII in Miami, Jan. 21. (AP Photo)
SUPER BOWL XIII SECURITY
Miami Police Officer C. Gilbert patrols the Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla., Sunday Jan. 21, 1979 with dog before start of Super Bowl XIII, between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers. (AP Photo)
RETURN TO FREEDOM
David Roeder shouts and waves as he arrives at Rhein-Main U.S. Air Force base in Frankfurt, West Germany from Algeria on January 21, 1981. He was among 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days after their capture at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. (AP Photo)
PRINCE CONCERT
Rock star Prince performs in concert in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 21, 1985 (AP Photo/Rob Burns)
Osbourne
Rock musician Ozzy Osbourne speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles, Ca., on Jan. 21, 1986. Osbourne is being sued by a California couple who claim his song, "Suicide Solution," drove their teenage son to commit suicide. (AP Photo/Lacy Atkins)
Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd, co-star of ABC's "Moonlighting," poses atop her star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, Jan. 21, 1988. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Rivera
Broadway star Chita Rivera, foreground, and the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes rehearse Cole Porter's "Can Can" in Manhattan, Friday, Jan. 21, 1988. Rivera will play a Parisian cabaret owner in the musical for a worldwide tour with the Rockettes. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
GEORGE BUSH LEE ATWATER
U.S. President George Bush, left, trades looks with Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican National Committee, as they accompany a band during a rhythm and blues concert in Washington D.C., on Jan. 21, 1989. Bush was inaugurated one day earlier. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Clinton
U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses members of his staff at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21, 1993. Vice President Al Gore is at the upper left. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
Home In Pacific Palisades
Home in Pacific Palisades that fell down side of hill above Pacific Coast Highway, shown on Jan. 21, 1994. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac)
FLOODS
A man plays on an air bed in his flooded back garden in Jerez Southern Spain during heavy rain Sunday Jan. 21, 1996. Heavy rains have lashed southern Spain over tha past two weeks flooding once drought-ridden land. (AP Photo/Jaro Munoz)
Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the athletic wonder who has been concentrating on golf the last few years, reaches high for a tennis ball, Jan. 21, 1944, at the Beverly Hills, Calif., tennis club where she hopes to go on to national tournament play. "I'm crazy about the game," she said. "I like it fully as well as I do golf." (AP Photo)
England Princess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose
Britain's Princess Elizabeth, holding flowers right, and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, accompanied by their parents Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, The Duke and Duchess of York at the circus at Olympia, London on Jan. 21, 1935. It was a big occasion for the little princesses, because they received their first public bouquets. (AP Photo/Staff/Len Puttnam)
USA Marines Training
Recruits at the U.S. marine base on Parris Island, South Carolina, doing rifle drill as part of their training ion Jan. 21, 1942 (AP Photo)
WWII British Malaya Destruction: Singapore
People are seen clearing some of the debris following the first Japanese raid of the war on the great British base in the Far East in Singapore on Jan. 21, 1942. (AP Photo)
Plastics
Powdered Micarta plastic flies like snow from a milling machine as slots are grooved in an insulator support for overhead trolley wires at the Westinghouse plant in this suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Jan. 21, 1942. Made of layers of resin-treated cloth or paper moulded under 225-ton pressure, Micarta is used for bearings, gears and in planes, ships and guns. (AP Photo)
London Archbishop of Canterbury Resigns
March Of Dimes Mail 1942
The mail staff at the White House tackled the job of segregating from the president's mail the thousands of dimes that have piled into the executive offices in the annual "March of Dimes" campaign for funds to combat infantile paralysis, Jan. 21, 1942. The campaign is one of the phases of the diamond jubilee celebration of the president's birthday. (AP Photo)
WWII Post War Japan
Boy-san meets Ojosan in the park around the emperor's palace in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 1946. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry/Julian Wilson)
Eisenhower Inauguration
President Dwight D. Eisenhower doffed his homburg and bowed toward Miss Burma, the GOP mascot elephant from Ohio, when she stood up on her hind legs for him during inaugural parade in Washington, Jan. 21, 1957. The elephant also earned the applause of John and Barbara Eisenhower, the president's son and daughter-in-law, and first lady Mamie, for her stunt. (AP Photo)
Dwight Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower
President Dwight Eisenhower and Mrs Mamie Eisenhower sit in the open car and wave as they leave the Capitol in Washington Jan. 21, 1957, just before swinging into Constitution Avenue on traditional inaugural parade route. (AP Photo)
Elizabeth Taylor with Eddie Fisher
Elizabeth Taylor and boy friend Eddie Fisher hold her children by her marriage to actor Michael Wilding as they begin one of the fantasy rides during an outing at Disneyland, Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 21, 1959. The boys are Michael (left), 6, and Christopher, 4. (AP Photo/Don Brinn)
Willie Mays
Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants center fielder, lines up shot on pool table in recreation room of his New York home on Jan. 21, 1959. Willie is reported to have agreed (the day before) to an $80,000 contract for the coming year. (AP Photo/John Rooney)
Fidel Castro
Rebel leader Fidel Castro gestures as he makes a point as he speaks into a battery of microphones in Havana, Jan. 21, 1959 during rally in front of the Presidential Palace, called to back the government's policy executing "war criminals." (AP Photo)
Female rhesus monkey in the environmental container
Resting in the environmental container, is the female rhesus monkey fired aloft in the little Joe test capsules on Jan. 21, 1960 from Wallops Island, Va., testing station of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The launching of the Little Joe capsule was a continuation of Project Mercury research for sending a human astronaut into space and returning him safely. The biological package the monkey was developed at the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation medicine, Brooks, AFB, Texas, where the animal was also conditioned for the flight. (AP Photo)
USS George Washington
The fleet ballistic submarine USS George Washington (SSBN 598) returns to port after first patrol in New London, Connecticut, on Jan. 21, 1961. (AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin)
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II waves to cheering crowds in New Delhi, India on Jan. 21, 1961, on her way to the presidential palace after a flight from London. Sitting beside the Queen is India's President Rajendra Prasad who was on hand to welcome the first British monarch to visit the former colony since 1911. Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, is on a six-week tour which also includes Pakistan and Nepal. (AP Photo)
John Glenn
Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., and his wife Annie, look over his first campaign sign in his race to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio. The sign is in Glenn's hotel suite on Jan. 21, 1964 in Columbus. He won't begin active campaigning until his retirement from the Marine Corps is official. (AP Photo/Julian Wilson)
McNamara Military Spending 1966
This study of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was made Jan. 21, 1966 as he appeared before combined Senate Committees on conduct of the war in Viet Nam. He urged the Foreign Relations Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to approve an additional $12.76 billion for carrying on the conflict in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh, wearing a light military uniform and sporting a flat cap, celebrates the lunar New Year on Jan. 21, 1966 with a visit to the Kim dong children’s camp, according to the caption released by the North Vietnamese news agency, VNA, with this radiophoto monitored in Tokyo. (AP Photo)
San Francisco
East side of Mount Davidson, elevation 925 ft., near the heart of San Francisco and shown Jan. 21, 1966. The area has an interesting pattern of homes on its slopes, most of which are connected houses with no space between. Across center of negative is the new Southern Freeway which goes towards Westlake area and Skyline Boulevard. In foreground are Outer Mission District homes. Note cross atop Mount Davidson. This concrete cross is 100 feet tall and is a landmark from far out to sea. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)
Monte Carlo Rally 1967
Ruano Aaltonen of Finland, left waving, and his English co-driver Henry Liddom, pose beside their Mini-Cooper S with their trophies which were presented to them by Prince Rainier, after they had won the Monte Carlo Rally, on Jan. 21, 1967. (AP Photo)
West Germany The Supremes 1968
The Supremes with Diana Ross, front, Cindy Birdsong and Mary Wilson dance with their arms in the air as they perform at the anual "Bal pare" party in Munich, West Germany, January 21, 1968. The U.S. American singing trio was backed by the West German Rolf Hans Mueller big band and were celebrated with thundring applause. (AP Photo/Frings)
East West All-Stars 1968
East All-Star flanker Don Maynard (13) goes high in the air only to lose a pass in the end zone from East quarterback Joe Namath, both of the New York Jets in the AFL, All-Star game in Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 21, 1968. Breaking up the pass is West All-Star back from Kansas City Johnny Robinson (42). (AP Photo)
Elizabeth Taylor with Family
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, left, sit at Maxim's of Paris on Jan. 21, 1968 to Vickey Tiel, center, Paris fashion designer Louis Feraud, and his wife, Mia Fonssagrives, right. They were attending Mia and Vickey's first showing of spring and summer fashions, Miss Taylor, who sponsored the show, also presented one creation designed by her. (AP Photo)
Germany Tom Jones
British pop singer Tom Jones during his performance at the "Bal Pare", in Munich, Germany, on Jan. 21, 1968. Jones was showered with flowers during his performance. This festival is one of the most famous carnival-balls of Germany. (AP Photo)
Italy People Earthquake Survivor
Refugees pray at large crucifix placed on a small improvised altar for a Sunday mass at a refugee camp near the small town Sirignano on Jan. 21, 1968, one of the worst hit villages by the catastrophic earthquake that January 15 struck a large part of western Sicily. (AP Photo/Giulio Broglio)
1960s Fashion
Evening dress consisting of a 7/8 gold, yellow, & black damask jacket with long matching pants, Jan. 21, 1969. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)
Hare Krishnas
Members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness chant along Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan on Jan. 21, 1970. Members of the new western cult serving an ancient Hindu deity can usually be found along the avenue at midday chanting the praises of their Lord Krishna and seeking donations from passersby. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
Rudi Gernreich Fashion
?Statement for the 70s? by deisgner Rudi Gernreich which his models start to reveal during art gallery showing in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1970. The models, shaved from head to toe, started out clothed in slacks and halters, then stripped to bikini bottoms, then shed the bottoms too. Gernreich predicts nudity for the young; total coverage for the old and unisex for everybody via shaved heads. (AP Photo)
Henry Kissinger 1974
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who returned from the Middle East, has a word for George Mahon (D-Tex.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, during a meeting with the president and Congressional leaders in the White House in Washington, Jan. 21, 1974. (AP Photo)
Ralph Nader
BRADSHAW HARRIS HENDERSON
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw winds up to fire a pass during Super Bowl XIII against the Dallas Cowboys in Miami Jan. 21, 1979. Bradshaw fired four touchdown passes and shattered two Super Bowl passing records in leading the Steelers to a 35-31 win over the Cowboys. At left, is Steelers Franco Harris and at right Cowboys Thomas Henderson (56). (AP photo)
Iran Hostage Crisis Over 1981
A group of unidentified American hostages give the victory sign as they emerge from an Algerian aircraft in Algiers after their flight from Teheran where they had been held captive for 444 days in Iran, Jan. 21, 1981. (AP Photo/David Caulkin)
Atlanta Child Murders Williams 1982
Wayne Williams, center, standing trial for the murder of two Atlanta children, leaves the Fulton County Courthouse after session, with his escort of deputies in Atlanta, Jan. 21, 1982. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway, Jr.)
Lily Tomlin
Comedienne Lily Tomlin rehearses her punk rock act as “Agnes Angst” in New York on Jan. 21, 1983 for “Saturday Night Live” show on NBC-TV. Brad Hall, a regular on the show, plays the synthesizer. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan,
President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan kiss at the completion of the presidential oath Monday in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 21, 1985. The ceremony took place before a select crowd inside due to cold weather which has forced cancellation of all outdoor inaugural activities. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan
President Ronald Reagan salutes as he and first lady Nancy Reagan depart St. John?s Church on Monday, Jan. 21, 1985 in Washington. Reagan began his second term as U.S. President with a pledge to seek agreement with the Soviet Union ?for ridding the world of the threat of nuclear destruction.? (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
Army Plane Crash 1987
Bob Dole 1988
Hall Of Fame Beach Boys
The Beach Boys hold their trophies after being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in New York, Jan. 21, 1988. From left are Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson and Mike Love. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
George H.W. Bush Family 1989
President George H. W. Bush and his mother, Dorothy Walker Bush, 87, sit in the White House Oval Office Jan. 21, 1989 in Washington. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Bush Inaugural Youth
First lady Barbara Bush stands behind children, Big Bird and actor Wilford Brimley as Marilyn Quayle, wife of the vice president, looks to her right, during an Inaugural Celebration of the American Presidency for Young People in Washington, Jan. 21, 1989. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
Russia Demonstrations Riots Azerbaijan
Baku residents mark the site of a shooting with flowers on top of a car full of bullet holes in Moscow on Jan. 21, 1990. Dozens were killed in Saturday?s fighting between nationalist militants and Soviet troops. (AP Photo)
1991 Gulf War US Protests
A demonstrator dressed in an American flag outfit waves a flag along with other demonstrators in support of the troops in the Gulf across from the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 1991. Several demonstrators shouted and sounded horns in support of the troops. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
1991 Gulf War British Troops
British Army Lance Corporal Karl Fairest, of the 203 Provo Company, Royal Military Police, digs a machine gun emplacement, Jan. 21, 1991 in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
Body of Jack Elmer Removed
Workers from the Wayne County Medical Examiner?s office carry the body of Jack Elmer, 53, from his Huron Township trailer home near Romulus, Michigan, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1993, after he took his life with the assistance of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Miller who inhaled carbon monoxide through a mask, was the ninth suicide victim assisted by Kevorkian. (AP Photo/Richard Sheinwald)
Bosnia Herz Civil War Bosnian troops Dead
A Bosnian soldier leaning on crutches, mourns at the grave of a comrade in Sarajevo?s military cemetery on Thursday, Jan. 21, 1993. Almost half of the former soccer practice field, that was turned into the military cemetery in October, is nearly full with new graves. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss)
Metallica Fans
Fans of the heavy metal rock group, Metallica, line up outside the Sam Goodies record store in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday, Jan. 21, 1993. The store, which closes its doors at the end of business, hosted the group who was on hand to sign autographs for fans and promote its new video collection. (AP Photo/Mike Albans)
First Chechen War
Chechen children in the village of Achkoy-Martan, some 31 miles southwest of Grozny, unload a truck which brought fresh bread baked at the local bakery, Jan. 21, 1995. Shamil, 13, at center, found this helmet in a Russian tank which got burned in the streets of Grozny. The bread was being handed out to the poor or families who had lost relatives in the war. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)
First Chechen War
A side view of the smoking Presidential Palace which stands out amid the devastation in the center of Grozny, Jan. 21, 1995. While heavy fighting was reported elsewhere in the breakaway republic, the capital Grozny had its quietest day since Moscow unleashed its offensive on New Year's Eve. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
POPE AT WINDOW
Pope John Paul II blesses faithful from the window of his private studio overlooking St. Peter's Square during Sunday's noon blessing at the Vatican Jan. 21, 1996. In his address the Pontiff called for Christian Unity. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti)
WWII Civil Defense
A crew of observers on the Empire State Building is shown during the air defense tests begun, Jan. 21, 1941 in New York by the U.S. Army. Their job is to spot "invading enemy" bombers and flash information to centers which order interceptor plane. The tests, to run for four days, cover an 18,000-square-mile area in northeastern states. (AP Photo/John Lindsay)
John Edwards
Former presidential candidate John Edwards makes a statement to the media following a federal court appearance in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, June 3, 2011. Former presidential candidate John Edwards is seen with his daughter Cate following a court appearance in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, June 3, 2011. A grand jury indicted the two-time presidential candidate on Friday, accusing him of trying to protect his political ambitions by soliciting and secretly spending more than $925,000 to hide his mistress and their baby from the public. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
LaVona Golden, Tonya Harding
U.S. figure skating champion Tonya Harding chats with her mother, LaVona Golden, during a break in her practice session in Portland, Ore., Jan. 21, 1994. Harding, who is under investigation in the assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan, has denied any involvement in the case. (AP Photo/Jack Smith)
Stine Karloff
Actor Boris Karloff is seen with his fourth wife, Dorothy Stine, at their Hollywood home, Jan. 21, 1932. (AP Photo)
White House Blue Room
The Blue Room at the the White House in Washington, D.C., is shown, displaying various antiques and paintings, Jan. 21, 1963. (AP Photo)
Col. Harlan Sanders
Col. Harlan Sanders, who operates Kentucky Fried Chicken stands across the country, meets employees on visit to the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, Jan. 21, 1969. Sanders was in town for the company's convention. (AP Photo)
Vietnam War U.S. Tanks
Tanks of the 11th Armored Regiment gather near Fire Support Base Roth after fight with elements of an estimated two NVA battalions three miles from the Cambodian border north of Saigon, Jan. 21, 1970, near Bu Dop. At least 27 NVA soldiers were killed (AP Photo/Mark Godfrey)
White House Green Room
Paintings of past presidents adorn the walls as a crystal chandelier hangs from the ceiling of the Green Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan 21, 1963. (AP Photo)
King Ibn Saud and King Farouk
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, with walking stick, confers with King Farouk of Egypt against background of Arabian splendor in tent at Port Tawfik after disembarking from ship at Suez, Jan. 21, 1946. (AP Photo)
Carole Lombard Death Funeral
A casket containing the body of actress Carole Lombard, is loaded into a hearse after arriving by train in Pomona, Calif., Jan. 21, 1942. Miss Lombard was one of 22 victims of an airplane crash near Las Vegas, Nev. Her body will be taken to Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, Calif., where burial services will be held. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel)
Philip Mountbatten Jawaharlal Nehru
Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, left, and the prim minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, in academic robes, arrive at Delhi University in Delhi, India, Jan. 21, 1959, to attend the inauguration of the Indian Science Congress. The duke, heading the British delegation to the congress, had arrived in New Delhi for the first visit to India by a member of Britain's royal family since the country gained independence in 1947. (AP Photo)
San Francisco Neighborhoods
San Francisco's Chinatown is shown at the corner of California Street and Grant Avenue, Jan. 21, 1966. The view, showing a cable car, is from the steps leading to St. Mary's Square. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)
WWII Asia New Guines U.S. Soldiers Wounded
Native stretcher bearers rest in the shade of a coconut grove as they and the wounded American soldiers they are carrying from the front lines at Buna, New Guinea, on Jan. 21, 1943, take the opportunity to relax. The wounded are on their way to hospitals in the rear. (AP Photo)
