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Shrimp boats that were tied up at the docks at Port Aransas for protection from Hurricane Celia, instead were torn loose and crammed into a corner of the dock area in Port Aransas, Texas on Aug. 4, 1970. Celia with her 145 MPH winds moved inland between Port Aransas and Corpus Christi on Monday.

Gerald R. Ford takes the oath of office as the 38th president of the United States as his wife, Betty, right, stands at his side in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, 1974. Administering the oath is Chief Justice of the United States Warren Burger. Ford is sworn in following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon as chief executive.

Government drug agents unload duffle bags containing a total of 815 pounds of cocaine from a twin-engine plane that was stopped at Dannelly Field in Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 4, 1983. Seven people are in custody. The cocaine has a street value of $230 million and is the largest seizure in Alabama history.

Olympic Gold Medal winners Leon Spinks, front, and his brother Michael Spinks display their medals as they walk through an admiring crowd in downtown St. Louis, Aug. 4, 1976. Leon won as a light-heavyweight and brother Michael was a middleweight in the Montreal Summer Olympics.

Mrs. Mildred C. Reniff of Ashfield, Mass, waves good-bye as she starts a test flight in her vintage 1914 Model T. Ford, Aug. 4, 1944. Mrs. Reniff heeded advice of Federal Agencies to make cars last as long as possible and had it put in tip top shape. Tank on running Board mixes Carbide and water to form gas for headlights.

American track and field athlete Jesse Owens winks as he poses in the Olympic village with his Olympic oak plants after winning the gold medals in the 100-meter dash and the running broad jump at the XI Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, on Aug. 4, 1936. Owens is wearing the victory wreath around his head.

This is the Associate Press's new wirephoto receiver, seen Aug. 4, 1937, in New York.

Fans swarmed around Joe DiMaggio and Lefty Gomez, right, of the Yankees when these two famed players called at Treasury House in Washington, Aug. 4, 1941, and offered to autograph books of defense savings stamps.

Sister Mary Othelia operates a tractor in the field at Mount Assist convent, near Lemont, Illinois on Aug. 4, 1942, home of the Sisters of St. Francis in Christ the King. The nuns, who do their own farm work to a great extent, have few worries over the farm labor shortage.

Russian soldiers, some wounded, who are all prisoners of the German army, in the streets of Sevastopol on Aug. 4, 1942 after their gallant fight to hold the city.

Passers by wondered what was going on as Sandy, a trained seal, stepped up to the Egyptian Theater box office on Hollywood Boulevard on Aug. 4, 1948 in Los Angeles and barked for a ticket. Sandy, an enterprising movie studio press agent pointed out, wanted to attend the preview of his first picture. He and a fellow thespian, Elizabeth Taylor (right), got as far as the lobby before the manager decided the gag had gone far enough.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias urges the ball into the cup on the 18th green of Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club in the Women's All-American Golf Tournament on Aug. 4, 1950.

Automobile drivers can always have a fresh cup of coffee handy with this new electrical midget coffee-machine which is fixed on the dashboard, shown Aug. 4, 1950. The boiler, which operates by current from the car's generator, holds enough water for three cups of coffee. The machine can also be used for preparing soups, boiling eggs or heating water for washing or shaving. Called the "Iro" coffeemaker, it sells for about $10 and is made in Frankfurt, Germany.

A Berlin firm displays a tape recorder at the Frankfurt, West Germany, Radio Television and phono fair, Aug. 4,1957 the tape of which runs up to a maximum of six hours. It uses a 3.5 cm (1.37 inch) wide endless magnetical tone band which is supplied in a book-like box. The tape recorder can also be changed into a record player by putting a plate for records on its Axis. It can play 33,45 and 78 RPM records which can be recorded on the tape simultaneously.

A workman in Copenhagen appears to have lost his head, Aug. 4, 1961. One workman is on the pavement and the other deep in a street excavation.

Hand-holding couple at the Republican Gala on Aug. 4, 1968 in Miami Beach, Fla., are California Gov. Ronald Reagan and Mrs.Nancy Reagan. They were among hundreds at $500-a-plate dinner at Republican headquarters hotel.

Speed driver Mickey Thompson stands amid a collection of his race cars from days gone by in Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 4, 1969. Mickey, the first man to drive 400 miles an hour is in business specializing in speed-related auto parts.

Home for 96-year old Arthur Darwin is 14 by 16 shack on Posseum Key, a tiny island in the heart of a watery wilderness inside Everglades National Park, Florida on Aug. 4, 1971. He cut the blocks himself for the one room concrete building where he lives his hermit existence. The windows have no glass, only screens and wooden shutters. He has no electricity or running water, 聯just the rain.聰 He goes to bed when it gets dark and rises with the sun.

The Trout Lake area southeast of Mount St. Helens is shown, Aug. 4, 1980. Firefighters, with headquarters just outside the town of Trout Lake, continued to battle smoldering fires near the volcano Monday.

People Express Airlines Captains Beverly Burns, left, and Lynn Rippelmeyer sit at the controls of a People Express Boeing 737 jet on Aug. 4, 1983. According to the International Social Affiliation of Women Airline Pilots, Captains Burns and Rippelmeyer are two of only four women pilots to obtain status in the United States that fly large jet aircraft for a passenger airline.

Chicago White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver whips through a pitch on his way to his 300th win in New York Sunday, Aug. 4, 1985. Seaver had a 4-1 win over the New York Yankees.

Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress and model, and Sylvester Stallone arrive at New York's Regency Hotel on Saturday, Aug. 4, 1985.

Diana, Princess of Wales, left, and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smile to well-wishers outside Clarence House in London, Aug. 4, 1987. The crowd wanted to wish Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, a happy 87th birthday.

A group of United Nations POW's smile and wave from an ambulance as they leave for Freedom Village after their repatriation in Panmunjom, on the border of North and South Korea, Aug. 4, 1953. They were among 70 Americans released during Operation Big Switch Prisoner Exchange.

Oil field workers signal to a crane operator as pipe is laid, leading to a burning wellhead in the Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait on Aug. 4, 1991. The pipe will eventually carry crude oil from the well after the fire is extinguished. Over 500 wellheads continue to burn after wellheads were torched by retreating Iraqi troops, who occupied Kuwait for over six months after the Aug. 2, 1990 invasion.