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A 1928 Ford Model A Tudor is shown in this undated photo. The Model A is powered by a 40 horsepower engine and is capable of speeds of 55 to 60 miles per hour.

A scene in the Lebanon Mountains, north of Palestine, famous for their stately cedar trees. The picture shows a Christmas-card scene in the region north of Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 2, 1938.

Adolf Hitler spoke at a propaganda meeting for the Reichstag election at Reichenberg on Dec. 2. When the election takes place it will be the first time Sudeten Germans will have voted under the new regime. Hitler, centre, and Konrad Henlein, Sudeten chief, during the meeting at Reichenberg, Czech Republic on Dec. 2, 1938.

Edith Toon of East Milton, Mass., slides down slope on one ski as she and others perform a "ski ballet" at Bob Johnson's indoor Ski School at Newton Corner, Mass., Dec. 2, 1947. The students in the background are, left to right: Frank A. Day III, of Newton and Walter McCann, of Waltham, Mass. The trio are part of a large group of avid skiers who can't wait until the natural white stuff starts falling outside.

New York聮s famous Times Square on Dec. 2, 1940, when the Presidential election results were coming through. Crowds pack the whole square, cheering wildly as the totals for the two candidates mount up and up.

About thirty German Bombers which raided the Italian Adriatic port of Bari, sank seventeen United Nations Merchant ships within a few minutes it was disclosed. Lack of fighter protection against the surprise raid was ascribed as the reason for the devastation wrought. Framed by the snout of an anti-aircraft gun, allied cargo vessels hit by a German bombing raid burn fiercely at the Italian port of Bari on Dec. 2, 1943.

Charles D. Brown, fills a vial with BCG, a vaccine against tuberculosis, on Dec. 2, 1947 at a state-operated laboratory at Albany, N.Y.

Smoke billows from upper floor of Our Lady of the Angels parochial school on Dec. 2, 1958 in Chicago where about 90 pupils and teachers perished yesterday in a flash fire. Schoolboy is brought down ladder at the Roman Catholic grade school on city's northwest side.

Members of Duke University聮s football team cluster around Elvis Presley for his autograph during a visit to Twentieth Century-Fox studio where Presley is making a movie in Hollywood, on Dec. 2, 1960.

Six lacquered locks and a diamond brooch worn on top of the head give a Hindu-like effect to this hairdo created by Alexandre of Paris for the holiday season on Dec. 2, 1964. The model is Maud Adams.

Louis Armstrong holds his trumpet in jubilation as he shows off his 聯man of the year聰 award presented to him at New York聮s Carnegie hall on Dec. 2, 1965, by the American guild of variety artists. The musician who has been in show business for fifty years, was honored at a special program to raise funds for combating juvenile delinquency.

Ginger Rogers, left, star of the Broadway musical 聯Hello, Dolly聰 crowns Angela Lansbury, who聮s starring in 聯Mame,聰 with the crown of Miss Ziegfeld 1967 on Dec. 2, 1966, at the 29th Ziegfeld charity ball. Miss Rogers was the 1966 Miss Ziegfeld. The Ziegfeld club was originally founded as a charity organization of former Ziegfeld girls.

67-year-old jazzman Duke Ellington leads his orchestra in a rehearsal in Conventry on Dec. 2, 1966 for a special performance before the High Altar of Coventry Cathedral. Ellington first performed similarly in an American cathedral last year and had requested permission to play at Coventry.

Rollerskaters and cyclists go at their will in Piazza del Popolo in downtown Rome Sunday Dec. 2, 1973, first day under driving ban to cope with energy crisis.

Lt. Col. Oliver North leaves his Great Falls, Virginia home to take his daughters to school, Dec. 2, 1986. A congressional source confirmed on Tuesday that North had taken the Fifth Amendment at least 40 times during his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday on his role in the contra aid situation.