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A mechanical cotton picker is shown in use on Dec. 22, 1930. The farm machine was perfected by Cotton Harvester Manufacturing Co.

Madrid, the Spanish metropolis, however is being shelled and bombarded almost every day. Destruction caused by air raids, on Dec. 22, 1938.

A man is fitted with an prosthetic eye, Dec. 22, 1944.

This gas-masked nurse is pushing a baby carriage, although it looks like a field kitchen, there聮s a baby in it, in London, on Dec. 22, 1938. Its inventor, E.W. Mills of Huxtable, Kent, England, says it is gas-proof, it works on the same principle as the mask worn by the nurse. Mills thought it up during the war scare.

Actor Boris Karloff, center, and his wife Evelyn Hope Helmore, pause to answer questions of interviewer Bill Slater, holding microphone, at the premiere of "Samson and Delilah," in New York, Dec. 22, 1949.

Chinese prisoners (left), rounded up by U.S. Marines (right), somewhere in the Frigid Mountains of North Korea, on Dec. 22, 1950 appear cold in spite of their padded uniforms. One (left) is blowing on his hands. Others huddle with hands in sleeves. A more fortunate prisoner has a blanket.

Rescue workers pull a miner worker from the Orient No. 2 coal mine in West Frankfort, Ill., Dec. 22, 1951, following an underground methane explosion. The state legislature passed the Illinois Mining Act of 1953, mandating better ventilation in underground mines and better testing for methane, which investigators said was the cause of the blast. Fifty years later, Dayton McReaken, a coal miner remembers when 119 workers died in the explosion.

Children of Old Order Amish and other Mennonite families exchange Christmas gifts after a program at the one-room Amish school near Kalona, Iowa on Dec. 22, 1962. Bearded Amos Yoder, 46, the school聮s teacher, leans over Leonard Shelter, 8, and his son, Marcus, 6, as they open their gifts. Looking in wonder at his brother聮s gift is Philip Yoder, 7.

Pornographic movie star John C. Holmes is arraigned in Los Angeles Municipal Court Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1981. Holmes is charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the bludgeoning murders of four people in a Laurel Canyon house.

Lottie Whiting pours a cup of coffee for a customer at Whiting's Country Store in Shannock, Rhode Island, Dec. 22, 1964, operated by her and her husband George. They have been charging five cents a cup for the last 35 years. Lottie wouldn't think of boosting the price even in the face of the mounting cost of operation. She said "This is our lead item. It brings the people in."

Lassie, the real one, not the double in a scene with the skunk, Dec. 22, 1965, after the fight in an episode for the 聯Lassie聰 series. The skunk, the outcast of the animal colony because of his smelly reputation, becomes a hero when he uses his spray on a wolf during the fight with Lassie.

Gov. Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy are joined by Ronnie Jr., 9, and Patty, 15, as they looked over the Christmas tree and presents at the Reagans' Pacific Palisades home, near Los Angeles, on Dec. 22, 1967.

Bernhard Goetz, flanked by police, leaves Criminal Court in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1985. Goetz?s lawyer told a Criminal Court judge his client ?has every inclination? to testify before a grand jury that could charge Goetz with attempted murder in the shooting of four youths on a subway.

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney stands on an M60 tank to address a group of U.S. Marines at their Saudi Arabian desert encampment on Saturday, Dec. 22, 1990.