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The holdup of a mail car in Western Ireland by Republican Girl Raiders who are searching for government dispatches, Sept. 6, 1922, Ireland. Note the Gaelic script on the rear of the wagon. Translated it reads "post-car" or "mailmoar".

This is one of the last photos taken of U.S. President William McKinley on the day he was shot, Sept. 6, 1901. It shows him, left, with John G. Milburn, right, President of the Pan American Exposition, leaving Niagara Falls, N.Y., to return to Buffalo and the reception at which he was shot.

Construction continues on the Culebra Cut portion of the Panama Canal, Sept. 6, 1912. Steam shovels carried 900,000 cubic yards of material from station 1760 at the West Bank.

Inmates take a break to eat at the Georgia State Prison's new location near Reidsville, Tattnall County, on Sept. 6, 1937.

Kelly Ripken reaches out to touch her husband Cal's face after he broke Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1995, in Baltimore's Camden Yards.

14-year-old Barry Pariser, checks on the movable ferris wheel which he built out of toothpicks as his sister Linda looks on in New York, Sept., 6, 1948. This is the young hobbyist's most ambitious project, which took 27,000 toothpicks and four months to build. Barry began his toothpick building at the age of ten, at the suggestion of his father.

Miss America contestants, starting a week-long competition for the title of Miss America, race across the beach at Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 6, 1955. Forty-nine girls from 45 states and cities are vying for the crown.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and a hero to the world, waves to the hometown folks on Sept. 6, 1969 during a big homecoming parade in his honor at Wapakoneta, Ohio. Armstrong's son, Mark, is beside him.

The Olympic flag, foreground, and flags of participating nations are flown at half-staff during a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Munich Olympic massacre at the Munich, southern Germany, Olympic stadium in this Sept. 6, 1972 file photo. A 20-hour standoff at the Olympic Village, where a Palestinian terrorist group seized members of the Israeli Olympic team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village on Sept. 5, 1972, ended in a tragically botched rescue effort at the airport. In all, 11 Israeli athletes, five of the Palestinians kidnappers and a German policeman were killed.

Ida Fuller, the first person to receive a check from the Social Security Administration, celebrates her 100th birthday in Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 6, 1974. She received her first check on Jan. 31, 1940, with an investment of about $22. Over the last 34 years she has received more than $20,000, a niece said. She is in good health and sees a doctor once a year for flu shot, she says.

Actor John Ritter points towards guests attending a press preview luncheon for television's "Three's Company," and its spinoff show "The Ropers," in Los Angeles, Sept. 6, 1979. From left to right: Audra Lindley, Joyce DeWitt, Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Don Knotts, and Norman Fell. Lindley and Fell star in "The Ropers." (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Tanja Fabijani, 20, weeps at the grave of her husband Zlatko, 22, a Bosnian government soldier who was killed in a frontline battle with Bosnian Serbs in August, at the stadium cemetery in Sarajevo Wednesday Sept. 6, 1995. Tanja and Zlatko had been married for 8 months. NATO conducted airstrikes against Bosnian Serb targets northeast and south of Sarajevo in punishment for the Bosnian Serbs refusal to remove heavy weapons and ease the siege of Sarajevo.

Pop singer George Michael displays his trophy after winning the 1989 Video "Vanguard Award" for his "Father Figure" video during the MTV Music Awards Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1989 at the Universal Amitheatre in Universal City, Calf.

A crowd gathered outside the Broad River Correctional Institution reacts after the execution, Friday, Sept. 6, 1991 in Columbia of Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins. Gaskins was convicted of blowing up a fellow inmate with a homemade bomb and confessed to killing 13 other people.

Prince William, left, and Prince Harry, the sons of Diana, Princess of Wales, bow their heads as their mother's coffin is taken out of Westminster Abbey Saturday Sept. 6, 1997 following her funeral service. The princess was killed on Aug. 31 in a car crash in Paris.

Craig Breedlove drives his jet-powered Spirit of America during its first test run on the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev., Saturday Sept. 6, 1997. Breedlove hit 227 mph on the run.