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Quarterback John Unitas of the Baltimore Colts managed to smile in Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore on Dec. 6, 1965, even though an injury in Sunday's game against Chicago put him out of action for the remainder of the season, including the probable National Football League championship playoff. Looking downcast is Harry Hulmes, the Colts publicity director.

The teletypesetter is a machine that will set type by radio or telegraph, invented by Walter W. Morey of East Orange, N.J. The project was backed by Frnk E. Gannett, newspaper publisher. Here, an unidentified operator at types at the master keyboard, which punches dots representing each character, Dec. 6, 1928.

View of unemployed people sleeping in beds at a shelter in Chicago, USA on Dec. 6, 1930.

Shirley Temple is writing to Santa Claus and her letter just asks him to give all the boys and girls the best Christmas ever, Dec. 6, 1936, Hollywood, Calif.

One of the most prized possessions of Henry Ford is his first automobile. It was built in 1892 in the brick barn before which Mr. Ford stands with James Bishop in Detroit, Michigan on Dec. 6, 1936.

Photo shows main building of the Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition, Halifax, Canada, damaged in the Dec. 6, 1917 explosion. The explosion on Dec. 6, 1917, was ignited by a collision between the French ship SS Mont-Blanc, which was laden with explosives, and the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the strait connecting Halifax Harbor with Bedford Basin. The catastrophe, known as the Halifax Explosion, remains the worst human-made disaster in Canadian history and was the world's largest human-made blast until the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945. The Canadian port city on the Atlantic coast was devastated by a wartime blast that killed approximately 2,000 people and injured an estimated 9,000 others.

Helen Taft, widow of William Howard Taft, the former president, visited on Dec 6, 1938, the White House in Washington, D.C. It was merely a social call on the Franklin Roosevelts, she explained, as she arrived at the chief executive mansion where she once lived.

Frank Filan, Associated Press photographer on assignment with wartime still photographer pool, who did his shooting in American invasion of Tarawa in the Gilberts with a borrowed camera after his camera was lost going ashore with the first Marine wave on Nov. 21, stands near a bullet-riddled plane on the airfield at Tarawa, Dec. 6, 1943.

This dramatic scene made during a German Counter-attack on Hoven, shows U.S. mortar crews firing at Nazi tanks, Dec. 6, 1944. The Americans entered the town after a heavy artillery barrage.

Rep. Richard M. Nixon (R-Calif.), right, who flew to Washington from a Panama-bound steamer, views microfilm of State Department papers with Robert L. Stripling, chief investigator for the House Un-American Activities committee in Washington, Dec 6, 1948. The films were found on the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers, admitted former Soviet agent.

Soldiers of General Patton聮s Third U.S. Army celebrate the capture of St. Avold, France, with a bottle of wine on Dec. 6, 1944. From left to right are: Pvt. Frank Manzi, 26 Rowe St., Lawrence, Mass.; Cpl. Carl, 542 W. 17th St., Erie, Pa.; Cpl. Luke Kowa, St. Clair, Pa.; Pvt. Rocci Jacullo, 297 N. Newark, N.J.; Pvt. Al D聮Amore, 66 Delancey St. Newark, N.J.; and Cpl. Philip Ellamore, Glen Campbell, Pa. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

A crowd of Arab demonstrators in Julians Way, Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 1947, during the disturbances which broke out as the arabs staged a three-day strike against the partition plan. Jewish shops in the quarter were attacked and some set on fire.

The Vanguard rocket throws out smoke and fire as it explodes at firing at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Dec. 6, 1957. This is the test vehicle which was to have carried America's first earth satellite sphere aloft.

President Eisenhower, arms widespread, stands in open car as he rides down Ataturk Boulevard on his arrival in Ankara, Dec. 6, 1959.

Black smoke rises over a rubber plantation beyond the Bu Dop special forces camp after U.S. Air Force planes and armed U.S. Army helicopters bombed Communist positions ringing the outpost near the Cambodian border about 80 miles north of Saigon, Dec. 6, 1967. The air strikes were called in after troops of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division ran into enemy trenches just beyond the tree line.

Joe Paterno, head coach of the Penn State Football Team, clutches the Lambert Trophy in New York on Dec. 6, 1973 after it was awarded to his team as emblematic of collegiate grid supremacy in the east.

Music fans dance and sing to the Rolling Stones at a free concert at the Altamont Speedway near Livermore, Ca. on Dec. 6, 1969. The concert was dubbed 'Woodstock West'.