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Sara Jane Moore is taken to the federal building in San Francisco, Dec. 15, 1975 for a special hearing to determine whether U.S. Dist. Court Judge Samuel Conti will accept her plea of guilty to charges she tried to kill President Ford or to order Miss More to stand trial.

Searchlights frame the "Tara" facade of Loew's Grand Theater on Peachtree St. for the movie premiere of "Gone With the Wind" in Atlanta, Ga., on Dec. 15, 1939.

This is a partial view of floor construction of the upper Gatun Lock of the Panama Canal, showing wall form towers and sidewall culvert forms, Dec. 15, 1909.

Eleanor Roosevelt is shown at Oak Ridge, the home where she was raised by her grandparents in Tivoli, N.Y., Dec. 15, 1932. Mrs. Roosevelt's parents died when she was a child.

Santa Claus in the person of Glen Campbell leads Bob Hope and members of his entertainment troupe in "A Christmas Carol" Dec. 15, 1971 in Hollywood, Calif.

John Dyson, 63-year-old inventor, gets his perfected bomber destroyer, which is mounted on a bicycle cart, ready for a tour of London streets to impress the public, Dec. 15, 1941, since British Government authorities remain indifferent to its potentialities. Mr. Dyson blames the old-school-tie crowd in the Government for the disinterest shown in his working model. Mr. Dyson presses buttons, turns innumerable gadgets, and the steam whistles and something starts turning with squeaks of protests, and gradually the whole business starts whirling and bobbing up and down, and then, according to him, you are witnessing a model of the machine that will save any country from bombers. After lecturing the curious, he asks for coins so that he may continue his research and buy a new alarm clock, as a new clock would help the cause.

In this Dec. 15, 1941 file photo, Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn't mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lee was born in the U.S.

British Prime Minister Churchill took time off during his visit to North Africa to see his old regiment, the 4th Queens Own Hussars who are here shown giving him three cheers on Dec. 15, 1943, in Cairo. During his address to the men on parade, he stated how pleased he was to be able to visit them for the third time in a year.

Brewery worker stokes coal into the boiler of a 53-year-old steam engine put back into service in the face of threatened oil fuel cuts, Dec. 15, 1973. Marked "made in Bavaria" the 90-horsepower old timere drives a 65-kilowatt generator for lighting and refrigeration plus providing enough steam to heat brewing vats and plant, making brewery independent of oil supplies.

Young Berliners get a treat at the U.S. Army's Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Dec. 15, 1948. Christmas gifts from a flying Santa, Lt. John Konop of Astoria, NY. This is the first planeload of gifts to be distributed to Berlin children under the Air Forces Christmas program, Operation Santa Claus. The gifts were donated by people in the United States and flown to Berlin via the air lift.

American actor Kirk Douglas is greeted by his sons, Joel, left, 6, and Michael, 9, after arrival from Europe at Idlewild airport, Queens, New York City, USA on Dec. 15, 1953. Douglas, returning from 14 months of overseas filmmaking plans to spend Christmas with his sons who live with their mother Diana Dill, who is divorced from Douglas.

Men of the Royal Scots Regiment frisk Egyptian suspects in the Arab quarter of Port Said, Egypt, Dec. 15, 1956, during an all-out search for kidnapped Lieutenant Moorhouse, who was taken by Egyptian underground members.

The engagement of actor Burt Reynolds to starlet Lori Nelson, left, is celebrated, Dec. 15, 1959 at a luncheon on board the Enterprise, setting for the NBC-TV series 聯Riverboat.聰 The host, Darren McGavin, busy serving salad, is the star of the series. Reynolds is the co-star. At right is Pat Crowley, a 聯Riverboat聰 guest star. The riverboat Enterprise, one of TV聮s largest props, sits on a Hollywood studio lot.

A U.S. marine throttles a Viet Cong prisoner flushed from a rice paddy by marines advancing through the Viet an valley on Dec. 15, 1965. The marines are supporting South Vietnamese troops in an effort to seal off escape routes for a communist regiment long entrenched in the valley that marines have dubbed 聯Death Valley聰.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, considered as the "spiritual father" of the Beatles sits amidst George Harrison, left and John Lennon, during the UNICEF gala at the Palais du Chaillot in Paris, Dec. 15, 1967.

Soviet Defense Minister Gen. Andrei Grechko, left, talks with Iraqi Minister of Interior Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Dec. 15, 1971.

Cars and trucks lie crushed beneath the fallen ramp of the Ohio Silver Bridge which fell Dec. 15, 1967 with an estimated 75 cars and trucks on the span. Workers with torches toiled through the night, probing the wreckage for victims.

Basketball's Wilt Chamberlain, left, and jockey Bill Shoemaker warm up their bowling game before starting competition in "Dynamic Duos" match, Thursday, Dec. 15, 1977 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The show is being taped by the NBC sports network for showing in late January.

Americans who support Iran's position in the hostage crisis join with Iranians in anti-American demonstrations outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran , Dec. 15, 1979.

Actress-model Brooke Shields, seen Dec. 15, 1983, adheres an anti-drunk driving bumper sticker to the back of a cab outside the Taxi Drivers' Union in New York to help publicize the National Council on Alcoholism's latest project -- placing "Support Sober Driving stickers on 3,000 of the city's yellow cabs.

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atom bomb, is shown at his study in Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Dec. 15, 1957. Oppenheimer has been leading an ivory tower career since the government banned him from classified science projects on security grounds.

A view of Pisa's Piazza dei Miracoli with the famous leaning tower, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2001. The tower was reopening to the public after being closed for more than a decade for works to reduce its slant. By using hundreds of tons of lead counterweights at the base and extracting soil from under the foundation, engineers shaved 44 centimeters (17 inches) off the lean and guided the tower back to where it was in 1838. The tower now leans 4.1 meters (13.5 feet) off the perpendicular.