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Actor George Hamilton walks on the roof of Hotel Louvre as he was filming Jack of Diamonds, Oct. 17, 1966, Paris, France. Hamilton plays part of Jeff Hill, an international jewelry thief. Background is the building of the Le Conseil dEtat . (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Levy)

Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush, left, speaks as Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Al Gore watches during their debate at Washington University in this St. Louis file photo from Oct. 17, 2000. This fall's presidential debates will pit George Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view.

Anguish shows on the face of James Thompson, 25, as his mother, right, exhorts him to "pray harder, son" in the Lawrence County jail yard in Ironton, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1935. He knelt in prayer as he was being removed to the Ohio Penitentiary death row to await execution for the deaths of two men in a train wreck. At left is the Rev. James Stepro. Thompson and an accomplice were accused of wrecking the train in order to steal the mail.

FBI special investigation team members enter the American Media Inc. building in Boca Raton, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001. The FBI is also continuing to interview hundreds of employees and visitors to the headquarters of American Media Inc., where anthrax spores were found

The first trials of all metal Zepp on rails were successfully undertaken on the line between Hanover and Celle in Germany, photographed around Oct 17, 1930. The machine, which was invented by Herr Kruckenberg, unseen, is a combination of an airship and a rail omnibus, running on ordinary railway tracks, and a having a four winged propeller at the rear, driven by a 500 h.p. motor. At present the car is only constructed for use on a straight track 聳 it has yet to be adapted for serves. In the space of two minutes the Zepp attained a speech of 93 mines an hour, running with extraordinary smoothness. The venture, which is through by experts to have considerable possibilities, is backed by the German State railways, who area playing already a half hourly service on some sections of their lines.

A control board with plenty of gadgets features the 45,000-pound snow cruiser being built in Chicago on Oct. 17, 1939 for the governments Antarctic expedition. At control board sit Dr. F. A. Wade , chief scientist of the U.S. Antarctic service, and Harold Vagtborg, director of the Armour Institute of Technology Research Foundation which is building the snow cruiser. The cruiser will have trial runs soon on the Indiana sand dunes.

German women and a few aged German men work at clearing away the debris of war from Danzig聮s streets, Poland, on Oct. 17, 1945. The much disputed Baltic sea port is now under Polish control and most of the German residents have been ordered to leave.

Deputy Sheriff Clemmia A. Hurst, right, of Lee County, Ky. , boarded a bus with Raney Allen, left, in Pontiac, Mich, Oct. 17, 1945, to return the four-foot, 100-pound Allen to Beatyville, Ky., where he is wanted on a murder charge. Though Allen looks like a boy, he's actually a 25 year-old-man.

The Rev. C.H. Bunn, host pastor at a convention of religious cultists called "Faith Holders," wears a snake across his forehead and about his face in Durham, N.C., Oct. 17, 1948. Members from five states the three-day meeting of from five states

President Juan Peron and his wife Eva wave from the balcony of Casa Rosada, Government House, in Buenos Aires Oct. 17, 1950 as Argentina celebrated Loyalty Day.

Captain Jacques Cousteau, left, welcomes Andre Laban, chief aboard the submarine house, Oct. 17, 1965, in Monaco Harbor. Cousteau's crew of oceanauts had just left the decompression chamber where they spent three days after the final phase of Precontinent III submarine survival.

African women donned their finest and largest bead necklaces and ear-rings to attend the Baraza held in honor of visiting Princess Margaret, in Arusha, Tanzania, Oct. 17, 1966.

Julia Thill, 17, Coos Bay, wants straight hair because it's in, she says, so she uses soft drink cans to straighten her stubborn curls in Coos Bay, Oregon on Oct. 24, 1966.

New York Yankees relief pitcher Rich Gossage, center, is surrounded by teammates as they leave the field after winning the World Series Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1978 in Los Angeles. Yankees, from bottom left clock wises are, Rick Howser, Clyde King (48), Brian Doyle, Catfish Hunter, Jim Beattie, and Ron Guidry.

Mount St. Helens roars to life, sending a plume of smoke and ash skyward, Oct. 17, 1980. The volcano is located 45 miles northeast of Portland, Washington. Next to Mount St. Helens is Mount Rainier, a dormant volcano. The plume was estimated to be 50,000 feet.

Concord, N.H. high school teacher Christa McAuliffe floats weightlessly for a few seconds aboard a KC-135 aircraft Oct. 17, 1985, while testing an experiment she may conduct next Jan. in orbit aboard the space shuttle. Ms. McAuliffe was selected by NASA to fly on the January 22 mission as the first teacher in space. The experiment is a study of mixing oil and water in zero gravity. The KC135 aircraft can produce a few seconds of weightlessness with a steep dive and is used in astronaut training. Assisting Ms. McAuliffe is NASA specialist Bob Mayfield.

A fireman sprays foam on the fuselage of a Uganda Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner that crashed in heavy fog short of the runway at Leonardo da Vinci airport, Rome, Italy, Oct. 17, 1988. 29 people were feared dead while 24 survivors had been taken to nearby hospitals.