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Workers install the first section of a huge safety net, at a cost of $98,000, that will extend from shore to shore beneath the Golden Gate Bridge span during construction of the bridge in San Francisco, Ca., Sept. 2, 1935.

J. Edgar Hoover head of the FBI, demonstrates the use of a machine gun at the department of justice to Mickey Cochrane (right) manager of the Detroit tigers, in Washington, Sept. 2, 1935, but Mickey needs little instruction as he is a well known Marksman and makes a hunting tour at the close of every baseball season.

The secluded castle of Balchik, Romania belonged to Dowager Queen Marie of Romania, Sept. 2, 1935.

After the first series of air attack on this city, workers rode on the tops of the railroad cars during a push to safety, Sept. 2, 1941 in Alexandria, Egypt. It proved so much cooler than riding inside the cars that many commuting business men took up the idea. Here is typical train load.

In the smaller towns of Japan, especially in the fishing villages, the women are the firemen. Many of the men have volunteered for service with the Japanese army in North China. A brigade of feminine fire-fighters in the Tohoku district of Japan going through their drill on the beach, on Sept. 2, 1937.

With the superstructure and backwater of Chickamauga Dam as a backdrop, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated this site near Chattanooga, Tenn., and the entire system of TVA dams. President Roosevelt addressed the crowd from his automobile, Sept. 2, 1940.

Shortly after their arrival in Stockton, Calif., Sept. 2, 1942 to alleviate a harvest labor shortage, Mexican youths immediately went to work in the beet fields. The first contingent numbered 500 men, and was the vanguard of 1,500 coming to relieve the labor shortage.

New York Giants offensive halfback Frank Gifford is seen in a posed action shot, Sept. 2, 1959.

Tech Sgt. Olin Dows (left) of Rhinebeck, N.Y., armed with a carbine, marches his haul of 56 German prisoners through a field near Joigny, France on Sept. 2, 1944, after he had talked their into surrendering using his fluency in the German language.

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, and General Wainwright, who surrendered to the Japanese after Bataan and Corregidor, are shown witnessing the formal Japanese surrender signatures aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2, 1945. Massed Allied officials and military personal stand behind the generals.

Three survivors of the Battle of Little Big Horn stand together in Custer State Park in Custer, S.D. on Sept. 2, 1948. Left to right are, Iron Hawk, Dewey Beard and High Eagle.

Billie Jean King of Long Beach, Calif., makes a lunge to return ball to Beck Vest of Jackson, Mississippi on Sept. 2, 1967, during second round play of the National Tennis Championships at Forest Hills, N.Y. Mrs. King made her tournament debut with a 35-minute victory, with scores of 6-2, 6-2.

South Vietnamese and Montagnard troops attack in an uphill battle near Ha Thanh, some 325 miles northeast of Saigon, Sept. 2, 1968, as an American medic attends a wounded U.S. Special Forces soldier. The GI was wounded during the battle as an Allied strike force sought to retake an outpost which had been overrun by the Viet Cong on Friday. The strike force retook the outpost.

Jambo, a 250-pound gorilla at the Jersey Zoo in St. Helier, the Channel Islands, leans into the dry moat around the gorilla enclosure at the zoo to check the condition of five-year-old Levan Merritt on Sept. 2, 1986, after the boy tumbled 20-feet into the pit. Jambo gently caressed the unconscious boy and neither he nor his mate nor their baby, right, harmed the youngster. Levan suffered head injuries and a broken arm in the fall.

FILE-- Major League umpires walk with picket signs in front of the National League headquarters in mid-Manhattan in this April 11, 1979 photo in New York, as they pressed their contract demands which have kept them on the sidelines so far this baseball season. Most Major league umpires have voted, Wedesday, July 14, 1999, to resign on Sept. 2 and skip the final 4-1/2 weeks of the season in a move that seemed to please baseball owners.

Singer Tina Turner performs her current hit song "What's Love Got to Do With It" during the Los Angeles, Calif., stop of her nation-wide tour, Sept. 2, 1984.

President Clinton gives a thumbs up to a supporter as he is introduced at a campaign rally in De Pere, Wis., Monday, Sept. 2, 1996.