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In this June 1, 1975 picture, President Gerald Ford lands on his hands after slipping and falling on a wet ramp, while disembarking from Air Force One in Salzburg, Austria. A military aide, grabs the president to help break the fall. The president's wife, Betty, is at left.

Five members of the alcohol Prohibition Research Committee depart on the bus Diogenes, named after the man who sought in vain for an honest man, in New York City, June 1, 1932. The membership is seeking one drunk who has been reformed by the 18th amendment in their campaign against the liquor ban. From left are, Stephen Duggan Jr., assistant investigator; Russell Salmon, chief investigator; Ernest Boorland Jr., member of the executive committee; Robert Nicholson, assistant director; and Paul Morris, director.

A Seattle bank is offering its customers personal computer services at the touch of a telephone, including bill paying, calculating, family budgeting and income tax data storage in Seattle, Washington, June 1, 1973. The service, called "in-touch," is the first of its kind in the motion. The service costs $6.50 a month. A touch-tone phone is used to connect the customer to a "talking" computer.

This group of unemployed veterans of the World War left Columbus, Ga., and Girard, Ala., Wednesday, June 1 on a long trek to Washington to demand payment of the soldier's bonus. They were photographed June 2, 1932 near Lawrenceville, Ga. The men carried their own provisions and traveled in trucks.

Protection of the civilian population in Germany against gas attacks in future wars has extended to animal life. This dog is shown taking a jump and his gas mask is no impediment, June 1, 1934.

Mongolian refugees fleeing before bandit hordes on the Mongolian plains, June 1, 1935.

Chief Poling Fire (James R. McComber) shades his eyes and displays the fine feathers of an Iroquois leader in Caughwanag, Quebec on June 1, 1940.

Australian soldiers watch a great cloud of smoke and sand rise in the western desert of Africa, June 1, 1941 marking the spot where they blew up a captured enemy ammunition dump.

As a reprisal for the Royal Air Force world record raid on Cologne, German bombers laid a short, but intense, raid on Canterbury, May 31, 1942. Hundreds of people were rendered homeless, and several were killed. One of the residential quarters of Canterbury shattered by German bombs, June 1, 1942. In foreground is bomb crater.

Captured during the Allied assault on Wakde Island and loaded into a truck for evacuation from the battle lines in Indonesia on June 1, 1944, this batch of Japanese prisoners in a mighty mean-looking lot. An American MP and a pair of his fellow fighters nonchalantly stand guard over their rough charges.

RAF bombers attack on the night of May 31 and June 1 left these huge craters and wreckage, knocking out a road bridge over the Loire River at Saumur, France, and nearby railway yards shown June 18, 1944.

Age is no bar to employment in China, here youngsters are put to work carrying water to the stone breakers on June 1, 1949. Their ages are about 7 years and their wages almost nothing per day, they are in the employ of Chinese-get rich quick real estate operators from Shanghai.

British rock star Elton John returns a ball during a ping pong match with a 13-year-old Li Dequn, June 1, 1983 in Peking, China. The towering rock star was beaten 0-2. Elton John is visiting China with the Watford football team.

Tied for first prize in the 2500 cubic centimeter class was this Alfa Romeo Grand Prix touring car, June 1, 1949, which weighs 2,645 pounds.

Bruce Springsteen in concert at the Slane Castle in Dublin, Ireland before 100,000 fans June 1, 1985.

Smoke continues to rise from the ruins of the Nypro chemical plant at Flixborough, England, June 2, 1974, following an explosion that killed 29 people, June 1.

John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono speak to news media on their arrival at New York's Kennedy Airport, June 1, 1971. The trip to New York is part of a bid by the Lennons to gain custody of Yoko's seven year old daughter Kyoko.

Hooded gunmen supporting Iran's central Islamic government, waiting on rooftop position in Khoramshahr, Iran on Friday, June 1, 1979 for ethic Arab demonstration to pass by. They later opened fire on the demonstrators who were protesting heavy Arab casualties during two days of bloody fighting with government forces in this key oil-producing area.

A church on the western edge of Newton Falls, Ohio burns, June 1, 1985, amid the rubble left by a tornado. Officials have not determined the cause of the fire that broke out after 7:30 am and quickly engulfed the structure.

United States Andre Agassi acknowledge applauds from the public after he defeated Italy's Paolo Lane in the second round match of the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Thursday, June 1, 1989.