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Surrounded by his watchful lieutenants, Chicago's crime boss Al Capone, right, and his 12-year-old son, Al Jr. gets Gabby Harnett of the Cubs to autograph a baseball just before the Cubs defeated the White Sox, 3 to 0 on Sept. 9, 1931. Note the watchfulness of one of Capone's bodyguards behind him, at the ready as a popcorn vendor rubbed against him.

Thousands of people gather along the beach at Asbury Park, N.J., to view the smoldering U.S. steamship Morro Castle, Sept. 9, 1934. The luxury liner, returning from Havana, Cuba, to New York City, caught fire off the New Jersey coast Sept. 8, killing 134 people. The survivors were 119 crew and only 15 passengers.

Helmeted workmen crawl through the ruins of wrecked London flats on Sept. 9, 1940. Their first chore after a German bombing raid is to search for the dead. Their second is to salvage valuables. A demolition squad follows them to tear down unsafe buildings. For 11 days Londoners have cowered under attacks that have reduced many homes to rubble.

A Civil War cannon which decorated the University of Colorado campus at Boulder is going the way of all good metal to World War II. The old ball and fuse type firing piece is being pounded into chunks by a steam hammer operated by Dewey Felder in Denver, Colorado, Sept. 9, 1942. The fragments will be melted and converted into naval war weapons by a Denver war plant.

On the test ground for the atomic bomb near Almagordo, N.M., Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, University of California physicist, smokes his pipe as he contemplates the site on Sept. 9, 1945.

Britain's Royal Children, Princess Anne, left, and her brother, Prince Charles, dressed in appropriate kilts, watch the Braemar Games in Scotland on Sept. 9, 1955.

Yoshiro Nakamatsu, 29, president of the Tokyo University Inventor Society 聳 with his invention for the movie industry, which, attached to a standard film projector, tailors the size of the screen to meet the needs of each scene. Nakamatsu's invention attaches to a standard projector, automatically controlling width of picture projection in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 1957.

The heat shield on the blunt end of this "Boilerplate" Mercury-type capsule may reach temperatures of 3,000 F in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Sept. 9, 1959, as the capsule slams into the earth?s atmosphere going 17,000 miles an hour. The atmosphere and parachutes will slow it to about 20 miles an hour before it lands in the water.

Even upside down, a stereophonic turntable continues to play and hold the interest of Helen Sorowitz, a visitor to the New York High Fidelity Show in New York, Sept, 9, 1960.

An East Berlin policeman puts bricks in place as the Berlin Wall is heightened to 15 feet, 5 m, separating East and West Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 9, 1961. People watch from their apartment building windows in background above.

Actor Matthew Broderick and his girlfriend Jennifer Grey arrive at New York's Kennedy Airport on Sept. 9, 1987 after Broderick was charged in Ireland and released on bail in connection with an automobile accident that killed two people. Broderick's car collided with a vehicle carrying two women, but he says he has no recollection of the accident.

Ruins of Mt. Mary Baptist church stand in Sasser, Ga. Sept. 9, 1962 after it burned down in a suspected arson attack earlier in the day. Flames also damaged a second church a few miles to the west. Black youth leaders in the area blamed segregationists for the fires. Sasser is eight miles southeast of Dawson, Ga. where a few days earlier, gunfire ripped into a house, wounding a young white man, a member of an interracial group working to register black voters. Four black homes in the area were also targeted.

Sandy Koufax (32) of the Los Angeles Dodgers is rushed by teammates as he leaves the pitcher's mound at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Ca. on Sept. 9, 1965. Koufax pitched a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs. Ron Fairly is at center, and Willie Davis (3) is at left. The Dodgers won 1-0.

Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O'Connor raises her right hand to be sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 9, 1981.

Sally Gomez drives to rescue of friend Michele Moore in flooded parking lot at Hyannis, Mass., Sept. 9, 1969, after torrential rains of Hurricane Gerda flooded low areas of Cape Cod. Ann Davis of Osterville stands up in roof opening to lend a hand. Sally and Michele are from Centerville on the Cape.

The Chicago Cub聮s bench chuckled when that traditional omen of bad luck, a black cat, wandered in front of their dugout during the first inning of game against the New York Mets in New York on Sept. 9, 1969. The more superstitious Cubs were right the Mets won 7-4.

TV actresses Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams smile at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Sept. 9, 1979. The duo play television's "Laverne and Shirley."

Two inmates at the Attica State Prison, Attica, N.Y., visit with another inmate inside a makeshift hospital set up by the inmates inside cellblock D, Sept. 11, 1971. The prisoner rebellion at this maximum security prison heads into its third day.

Black militant Angela Davis is seen at home in East Oakland, Calif. on Sept. 9, 1974. She wears two chains representing her commitment to struggle. One is gold, with the hammer and sickle of the Communist Party. The other is ivory with a dragon, ancient symbol of strength and harbinger of revolution.

Watergate mastermind G. Gordon Liddy talks with reporters during his interview in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 9, 1977 since leaving prison. Liddy said that if a president asked him to repeat the work he performed in the Watergate break-in, he would answer "Yes, thy will be done."

Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman is shown as she appears as the richest woman in the world in the film "La Vendetta della Signora" , during a break in filming the first scenes in Rome, Sept. 9, 1963.