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An unhappy looking Chinese boy sheltering from the intense heat of the midday sun and holding smaller hats around Dec. 9, 1930.

The scene outside a bank in the Bronx in New York City, USA around Dec. 9, 1930 where three million dollars in cash were delivered to stem a mad rush made by investors after news was circulated that the bank was in difficulties. Clerks were pushed from other branches to help pay out, and mounted and foot police were present in great force to control the mobs. There is a police car in the foreground.

Igor Stravinsky (right), Russian composer, gets a look at another part of the music world -- the musical comedy at New York City on Dec. 9, 1940. Showing him around backstage is George Balanchine, dance director of "Cabin in the Sky."

U.S. infantrymen pray in the Vietnamese jungle Dec. 9, 1965 during memorial services for comrades killed in the battle of the Michelin rubber plantation, 45 miles northwest of Saigon.

American actor Cary Grant, left, and Swedish-born actress Ingrid Bergman chat with two Australian ballerinas, Margaret Lee and Brenda Bolton, right, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on Dec. 9, 1957, during the shooting of a scene from the new film 聯Indiscreet," in which Grant and Miss Bergman are co-stars. The film is based on the play 聯Kind Sir聰 by Norman Krasna.

Two U.S. soldiers assigned to guard the White House carry rifle guns as they march down West Executive Avenue between the White House, in background, and the State Department in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 9, 1941 during World War II.

An orphan receives a medical examination in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec. 9, 1945 at the end of World War II. As guests for a 90-day period, 60,000 young orphans of war-torn Europe are treated for skin infections and lice discovered during routine medical inspection in preparation for farming the children out to Swiss families.

New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, conquerer of Mount Everest, and elder sherpa Khunjo Chumbi is pictured in Calcutta, India, Dec. 9, 1960 holding the hairy scalp which, according to Himalayan villagers, belonged to a Yeti.

The Queen Mary is escorted by an armada of small craft in the final moments of her final cruise as she arrived at the outer breakwater of Long Beach, California harbor Dec. 9, 1967. Hundreds of thousands crowded the shoreline to watch as the huge vessel arrived to become a floating hotel-convention center and maritime museum in Long Beach harbor.

Herbert Buckingham Khaury, 37, better known as Tiny Tim, is seen with his fiancee Victoria May Budinger, 17, at the marriage license bureau in New York's Municipal Building on Dec. 9, 1969. Behind the couple is Mrs. Emma Budinger, Victoria's mother.

Gunfire was brought to the steps of President Truman's Washington home, Blair House, as two assassins tried to kill the chief executive, Nov. 1, 1950. One of the gunmen, Oscar Collazzo of New York, lay wounded at the bottom of Blair House's front steps after the president's police guard had finished their work, at the cost of one guards' life, Dec. 9, 1950. The second gunman was killed.

Actors Luisa Mattioli and her husband Roger Moore don "Father Christmas" costumes at the Variety Club of Great Britain's Christmas luncheon at the Savoy Hotel in London, Dec. 9, 1969. They are collecting gifts for sick and deprived children.

This fur-lined tea cup and saucer made by Meret Oppenheim was one of 694 items shown at the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism in New York, Dec. 9, 1936. The show is concerned with irrational artistic manifestations from the fifteenth century to the present.

Billy Carter, left, receives condolences from his older brother, President elect Jimmy Carter after he lost the race for mayor of Plains, Ga., Monday, Dec. 9, 1976. The President-elect stopped by Billy's gas station, where the victory celebration was supposed to be held, after the results were in. Billy lost to A.L Blanton, the incumbent, 90-71.

Two axis oil tankers which were hit by British bombers, Dec. 9, 1942 in the harbor of Bengasi burn helplessly, sending out great clouds of smoke. Their Cargo, most precious in the western desert motorized warfare, never reached the enemy, whose tanks and other vehicles badly needed fuel.

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer looking affectionate in the grounds of Buckingham Palace after the announcement of their engagement in London on Feb. 24, 1981.

A young Grenadian boy carries an empty ammo box as he walks through members of the military police attached to the 82nd airborne in Marimount, Grenada on Thursday, Dec. 9, 1983. The soldiers where taking part in a live fire exercise.

George Harrison, right, is embraced by fellow rock legend Tom Petty after Petty presented the first century Award for distinguished creative achievement to Harrison at the Billboard Music Awards Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1992 in Los Angeles.

General Hermann Goering, Premier of Prussia, as he took aim at a boar during a hunt near Hanover, Germany, on Dec. 9, 1935.