Jack Thornell, The Associated PressNew Orleans police officers try to keep their heads down as they move in on a Black Panther headquarters during an exchange of gunfire in New Orleans on Sept. 15, 1970. The shootout occurred as police moved in to make arrests on Tuesday morning following a series of incidents.
Matty Zimmerman, The Associated PressMarilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in Manhattan on Sept. 15, 1954. The former Norma Jean Baker modeled and starred in 28 movies grossing $200 million. Sensual and seductive, but with an air of innocence, Monroe became one of the world's most adored sex symbols. She died alone by suicide, at age 36 in her Hollywood bungalow.
The Associated PressCoach Knute Rockne, putting his football proteges through the first football drill of the season at Cartier Field, South Bend, Indiana, Sept. 15, 1930.
The Associated PressThis smiling lass at work in the fields with a German peasant in Stettin, Germany on Sept. 15, 1935, is one of 20,000 German girls trained during the last year by the Nazi government in its women's labor service. This girl, a member of camp Rothenklempenow, is helping harvest a field of oats. The camps are an unemployment measure, and house former stenographers, nurses, factory workers, students and shop girls, among others.
The Associated PressSamuel of Speen, from the Shetland Island off Scotland, finally met up with his new mistress, Shirley Temple, after a 3,000-mile trip by water and a 3,000-mile trip across the United States on Sept. 15, 1936 in Los Angeles. Samuel is the gift of Joseph M. Schenk, movie producer.
The Associated PressA teacher instructs his class in the correct gas mask drill in a school in Yorkshire, England, on Sept. 15, 1939.
The Associated PressThe making of shatter-proof lenses for eye guards is highly technical, involving the arts of physics and chemistry. This photo shows clears acrylic crystals from which the plastic lenses are made being baked in an infra-red oven to eliminate moisture and pre-condition them for the operation in the moulding press in Los Angeles Sept. 15, 1942. The operator is Frank Hamilton.
The Associated PressThe bullet-riddled body of a man identified by police as Phil "Little Farvel" Cohen, 43, former member of Brooklyn's Murder, Inc., is inspected by state troopers and a medical examiner at Valley Stream, New York, Sept. 15, 1949. Police said there was little question that Cohen's slaying was linked to gangland vengeance. It was Cohen's testimony that helped send Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and two others to the electric chair.
Alexander Zemlianichenko, The Associated PressAmerican entertainer Michael Jackson sings during his first and only concert in the former Soviet Union on a rainy night at Moscow's Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1993.
Ed Gamble, The Associated PressA crane pulled the pilot house of the federal gunboat "Cairo" from the muddy waters of the Yazoo River in Vicksburg, Mississippi on Sept. 15, 1960, making possible an underwater study of the boat, which sank after hitting a mine. The recovery resulted from the work of Ken Parks and Skeeter Hart of Jackson, with the aid of Ed Gamble, who took the picture.
The Associated PressDistrict Attorney Leo Rector of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Sheriff John Hammond, look at a dump area where clothing and bones identified as belonging to Adolph Coors III were found, Sept. 15, 1960. Coors has been missing since February, feared kidnapped and killed. His cotton clothing was turned up first and later a skull identified by dental experts as his.
Corey Struller, The Associated PressJerry Garcia, center, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead performs in concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, Sept. 15, 1987.
The Associated PressReferee Lucien Joubert goes to break up a Clinch between Muhammad Ali, left, and Leon Spinks in their heavyweight title match at New Orleans Superdome on Friday, Sept. 15, 1978. Ali defeated Spinks in a 15-round unanimous decision, becoming the first man to gain the heavyweight crown three times.
Sadayuki Mikami, The Associated PressMake-believe mechanical robot plays the trumpet, much to the delight of youngsters who visited the Tokyo department store, Sept. 15, 1981 where this robot, and others were displayed. Music comes from within; trumpet is just for looks.
Marilyn Weiss, The Associated PressThe famed HOLLYWOOD sign is seen after pranksters altered the sign by removing one 'L' during the early morning hours Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1987, preceding the arrival of Pope John Paul II in Los Angeles, Calif.
In this Sept. 15, 1963 file photo, damaged automobiles show the force generated by an explosion which tore large pieces of stone from the 16th Street Baptist Church during services in Birmingham, Ala. A bomb planted by Ku Klux Klansmen ripped apart the building and killed four black girls.
NASA TV, The Associated PressThe Wake Shield Facility is held out and away from the space shuttle Endeavour by the shuttle's robot crane Friday morning, Sept. 15, 1995 in this image from television. The 4,300 pound steel disk was used to test the field of ionized particles that flow over the shuttle as it zooms around the Earth.
G. Paul Burnett, The Associated PressThis is the scene at the re-opening of New York's Studio 54, Sept., 15, 1981.
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New Orleans police officers try to keep their heads down as they move in on a Black Panther headquarters during an exchange of gunfire in New Orleans on Sept. 15, 1970. The shootout occurred as police moved in to make arrests on Tuesday morning following a series of incidents.
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Getting your player ready...
A selection of photos from around the world of events that happened on September 15.
















