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Thomas A. Edison as he appeared in the Newark railroad station, Dec. 5, 1929, waiting for the train to take him to Fort Myers, Fla., where he will continue his experiments in the production of rubber from the common goldenrod and other plants. Edison was preceded a few weeks ago by many of his laboratory assistants, who are now busy in Florida setting up equipment and laboratory apparatus for use of 聯The Wizard聰.

As soon as the prohibition repeal was ratified, wholesale houses got busy delivering the goods to anxious customers, as seen in New York, Dec. 5, 1933. The first shipment from the the historic winery of Mouquin Inc. in Brooklyn, is shown leaving the warehouse for Roth's.

Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., uses barbells to show his fitness on his 65th birthday in his office in Washington, D.C., Dec. 5, 1967.

French troops receive soup on the front, somewhere in France, on Dec. 5, 1939.

Jazz singer Nina Simone is shown in London on Dec. 5, 1968, photo. Simone's deep, raspy, forceful voice made her a unique figure in jazz and later helped define the civil rights movement.

French children salvaging food from the cars of a wrecked train climb on a Moselle River railway bridge destroyed by the retreating Germans in France on Dec. 5, 1944.

The rock band Jefferson Airplane pose in their Pacific Heights, San Francisco apartment, Dec. 5, 1968. From left: Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady.

Chinese Communists are shown at a camp in Tibet, Dec. 5, 1950.

Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, barred on Dec. 4, from House Un-American Activities subcommittee hearing, aims a toy gun in "self defense" outside the Washington hearing room on Dec. 5, 1969. Rubin showed up in his Santa Clause suit because he believed it was typical of the committee which, he said, "is a total circus."

An unidentified trapper is kept busy catching bobcats, Dec. 5, 1955.

British rock musician Mick Jagger from The Rolling Stones, with his fiancee Jerry Hall at Gibbs Beach, St. Peter, Barbados on Dec. 5, 1983.

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer poses in his office on Dec. 5, 1958.

The very active hostess of a lodge at Stowe, Vermont, high in the Green Mountains, is Maria Augusta Trapp, Dec. 5, 1962. She is the mother of the world-known singing Trapp Family, the real-life heroine of a Broadway hit musical the widow of Austrian Baron Georg Von Trapp. With the dispersal of the singing troupe by marriage, Mrs. Trapp turned their family home in America into a year-round lodge. She presides in an atmosphere suggesting that of the Tyrol near Salzburg where the Trapp family lived until they fled from the Nazis. In the great kitchen of the lodge, Mrs. Trapp, in the Tyrolean dress she wears, prepares nockerln, or dumplings, one of many traditional Tyrolean dishes she serves guests.

U.S. machine gunner Spc. 4 James R. Pointer, left, of Cedartown, Ga., and Pfc. Herald Spracklen of Effingham, Ill., peer from the brush of an overgrown rubber plantation near the Special Forces camp at Bu Dop during a half hour firefight, Dec. 5, 1967. Their company-size patrol avoided an ambush when a patrol dog alerted the unit to the presence of enemy forces.

Trash litters the breezeway at Barker Ranch House, refuge of Charles Manson and his so-called "family," Dec. 5, 1969.

Two Russian bears give subway construction workers a paw (hand) as they stump for publicity in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 1975. The Soviet Circus opens in the nation's capital.

Former U.S. hostage and AP chief Middle East correspondent, Terry Anderson, left, enjoys a light moment with his six year old daughter Sulome early Thursday, Dec. 5, 1991 at the entrance of the Wiesbaden Air Force hospital. Anderson's daughter was born during his seven years in captivity from which he was released in Beirut Wednesday. Anderson's sister Peggy Say is at his right. (AP Photo/Kurt Strump)

Rosa Parks, center, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man 20 years ago sparked the historic Montgomery bus boycott, is honored, Dec. 5, 1975 at ceremonies commemorating the civil rights crusade in Montgomery. Beside her are Mrs. Jonnie Carr, president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and U.S. Rep. Walter Fauntroy of Washington, D.C.

Singer Linda Ronstadt visits British rocker David Bowie backstage during his break in the Broadway play "The Elephant Man," at the Booth Theater in New York, Dec. 5, 1980.