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Bespectacled Mahatma Gandhi, who eventually led India to its independence, laughs with the man who was to be the nation's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, at the All-India Congress committee meeting in Bombay, India, on July 6, 1946. Nehru took office as president of the Congress during the session. Gandhi's philosophy of non-violent resistance, including civil disobedience and fasts, drove India to independence in 1947 after nearly 200 years of British rule. The father of modern India, the Mahatma, which means great soul, was assassinated in 1948 for his tolerance of other religions.

Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and his wife Mary Louise leave Newark Airport in New Jersey, July 6, 1933, on the first lap of a journey to the Antarctic.

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, stripped to the waist, with right hand clenched to drive home his point, making an address from the platform of a threshing machine at Aprilia, latest township to be formed in the reclaimed Pontine Marshes of Agraromano, Italy, on July 6, 1938.

Britain's Princess Elizabeth clasps her hands in sympathy as Sergeant Jean Bayliss faints at her feet during an inspection of the guard of honour of the Women's Royal Army Corps at Shrewsbury Castle, Shropshire, on July 6, 1949.

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, squinting and making binoculars of his hands as he strains to watch U.S. Army paratroops floating down from the sky, somewhere in America, on July 6, 1942, during the demonstration arranged for his benefit during the last days of his stay in America.

An RAF Halifax over the target a large concrete structure in the Pas De Calais area in France on July 6, 1944 during daylight attack by Bomber Command where bursting bombs send clouds of smoke and dust into the Air.

A German glider hangs from the top story of bombed-scarred apartment building in Budapest, Hungary, on July 6, 1945. Following the three month siege, which ended in the rout of the German and Hungarian armies, many damaged parts of the attractive city of Budapest are being seen for the first time.

Charles Sears, wearing a bag over his head, is escorted out of the 13th Precinct in New York by detectives after his arrest, July 6, 1981. Sears was arrested in connection with the skid-row slashing deaths of two homeless men and the wounding of 13 others, according to detectives.

Alice Coachman of Albany, Ga., clears the bar at five feet to win the running high jump in Women's National Track Meet in Grand Rapids July 6, 1948.

Gen. James Van Fleet, eighth army commander, and two others escaped injury when this helicopter crashed on the deck of the cruiser Los Angeles after being caught by a gust of wind in waters of Korea on July 6, 1951.

Ronald Hughes, 8, starts his descent from a lofty perch atop a 100- foot bridge pier in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 6, 1954. He is lowered in a boatswain's chair after being rescued by a pair of veteran bridge painters. Ronald and his six-year-old brother spent the entire night in a precarious position after climbing up on a catwalk.The boys were cold and dirty, but uninjured.

Dave Lambert, a singer at the Newport Jazz Festival accepts a light during intermission backstage in Rhode Island, July 6, 1963. Lambert says he usually takes those first puffs through his nose. He says it helps to keep matches in unsteady hands just a bit further from his highly inflammable beard.

Folk singers Paul Stookey, left, Mary Travers, center, and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, pose in Hollywood Ca., July 6, 1965.

A wounded Cambodian trooper grimaces in pain as a buddy carries him to a medic station on RTE 5, an embattled highway northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 6, 1973. Government forces engaged entrenched Khmer rebels about 40 miles from the Cambodian capital.

Jimmy Connors of Belleville, Ill., is seen in action at Wimbledon during the finals of the men's singles championship against Australian Ken Rosewall, July 6, 1974.

Theodore Bundy, right, smiles as he huddles with Margaret Good, a member of his defense team, during the jury selection portion of Bundy's murder trial, July 6, 1979, Miami, Fla. Bundy is accused of murdering two Florida State Univ. co-eds.

Farrah Fawcet appeared for a spa groundbreaking in Corpus Christi, Texas, July 6,1984.

Michael Jackson performs with his brother on July 6, 1984 during their tour in Kansas City, Missouri.