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Tail section of UAL airliner blocks intersection of two streets in heavily populated area of Brooklyn, Dec. 16, 1960 after plane crashed as it approached Idlewild Airport for a landing. A section of planes wing can be seen at base of tree at right center. In background is block of apartment set ablaze when plane crash. Intersection at 7th avenue and sterling place.

Great playwright George Bernard Shaw, location unknown on Dec. 16, 1928.

A Marine corps dive bomber, the 聯Push Push,聰 right, leaves formation to drop a smoke bomb on the beach at Bougainville to mark a landing spot for marines on landing barges a quarter of a mile off shore to the entrance of Empress Augusta Bay on Dec. 16, 1943.

The irrepressible antics of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and Helen Kane's singing helped put over a Christmas fund benefit staged by the Los Angeles newspaper in the Shrine Auditorium, Dec. 16, 1932. The amusing threesome is shown in the wings.

This is a general view of the Associated Press newsphoto desk, New York, Dec. 16, 1935.

Teresa Whelan, Helen Corbin, Sgt. Lawrence Lovell, Jane Peterson and Julie Bellus were into this army truck聮s 聯innards聰 in no time flat when Sgt. Lovell, as their instructor, gave advice in car repair, in Fort Lewis, Wash., Dec. 16, 1940. To lift heavy objects from the truck for repairs there would be a mechanical crane which the girls could operate easily. When asked how they would like to have plenty of work on their hands, one girl replied, 聯Oh, this is fun. Give us a broken down truck and we聮ll show you.聰

Boston Bruins' Bobby Orr holds a Grecian amphora, the Sports Illustrated 1970 Sportsman of the year award, in Boston, Dec. 16, 1970.

Soldiers ordered to peel potatoes are not reckoned to smile like this. But this is the secret: 聯spud barbering,聰 as the Diggers call it, is shared by all except 聳 of course N.C.O聮s. The men go on a roster and these men聮s turn has come Dec. 16, 1942. That removes any cause for ill-feeling, and gives them men a chance for a gossip as good as any sewing-bee.

This is the inside of one car of the Atlantic Coast Line train which was wrecked in a derailment and collision with another Atlantic Coast Line train near Buie, N.C., Dec. 16, 1943. Seventy-two people died in crash.

Standing in the backyard of an abandoned house in the outskirts of the besieged city of Leningrad, a rifleman of the Red Army aims and fires his machine gun at German positions, on Dec. 16, 1942.

A crew, right, works to remove a drift in front of a New York Central train to enable it to reach the Terrace Station in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 16, 1945. A record-breaking storm disrupted train travel between Batavia, N.Y., and Buffalo.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India and President Dwight D. Eisenhower shake hands on North Portico of the White House in Washington on Dec. 16, 1956, as the Indian diplomat arrives after flight from London. They will confer on ways to keep peace in a troubled world.

Hundreds of blacks march down a street in Albany, Ga. under arrest as they marched against segregation in the city on Dec. 16, 1961.

Shabbily-dressed Isaac Grady Sanders, 13, leans against door of shack in Whitwell, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1963 where his family will have a stark and bleak Christmas. His father is one of thousands of Former coal miners who were laid off several years ago. The lad, oldest of seven children, lives with his grandmother across the road from his parents聮 home. The rest of the family three girls and three boys and their parents live and sleep in a 12-by-12 room, furnished with two double beds, a couch and a stack of blankets.

Skating chimpanzees (from left) Candy, Enoch and Marquis, frolic on the ice during their first rehearsal for the Christmas ice show at Wembley in London on Dec. 16, 1963.

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck wears earphones as he rides in an Army helicopter on Dec. 17, 1966 in Vietnam over the central Vietnamese Highlands. The 64-year-old author came to Vietnam to "go up the rivers and into the mountains" to see it for himself. Steinbeck began his first trip to visit combat units his first field trip to visit combat units the weekend of Dec. 16, 1966.

Saundra Brown, 28, the first black woman on the Oakland police force gets instructions on how to shoot a shotgun from the hip by police range master Adolph Bischofberger on Dec. 16, 1970 in Oakland, California. Saundra graduates on Friday near the top of her class after 15 weeks of criminal law, report writing, first aid, firearms training and defensive tactics. 聯I really feel very confident now,聰 she said, 聯but before I was totally afraid. I didn't want to be around a gun.聰

NBC News correspondent Edwin Newman, on-camera reporter for "NBC Reports" is surrounded by the rock group KISS and their manager, Bill Aucoin, left, Dec. 16, 1977. Members of KISS are, from left to right: Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley.

Yogi Berra talks to reporters after he was named as the new manager of the New York Yankees, Dec. 16, 1983 in New York. Berra, 58, who was given a two-year contract, becomes the eighth manager Yankees' owner, George Steinbrenner, has hired since 1973 when he headed a group of investors who purchased the team.

Rhythmic two-step by two Askari Chiefs during a ceremonial war dance held by Askaris - native troops employed by the Italians - to celebrate victory on Dec. 16, 1935. An Italian officer is seen looking on.

Actor Woody Harrelson in character as Woody Boyd, the Indiana boy who becomes bartender in TV's "Cheers", Dec. 16, 1985, Los Angeles, Calif. Harrelson has very little acting experience but found himself replacing the late Nicholas Colasanto in the hit series.

The battleship USS Iowa fires its 16-inch guns during duty in the Persian Gulf on Dec. 16, 1987. In 1943, the Iowa ferried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran Conference, where post-WW II leaders divided up the world. The ship fought battles from the South Pacific to Korea and escorted convoys through the Persian Gulf. Forty-seven sailors died atop its deck when an explosion ripped through a gun turret. Now, the new port for the retired USS Iowa just might be the home of California's annual asparagus festival, the gritty agriculture port town of Stockton on the San Joaquin River, about 80 miles inland from San Francisco.

President-elect Bush smiles as he introduces retired Gen. Colin Powell, left, as his nominee to be secretary of state during a ceremony in Crawford, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2000. Powell served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George Bush, father of the president-elect.