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Roy Harley, one of the survivors of the Uruguayan plane that crashed into the Andes in Chile, is embraced by his mother moments after his rescue in the mountains, Dec. 23, 1972.

Hollywood film comedian Eddie Cantor holding his skis in St. Mortiz, Switzerland on Dec. 23, 1934.

The American flag, attached to a 36-foot-long, four-ton steel column, is hoisted to the top of the north tower building of the World Trade Center in New York City, Dec. 23, 1970. The traditional ceremony, know as topping out, marks the completion of the 1,350-foot structure which is the world's tallest building.

Sharecropper Wesley Prickett, his wife and three children pose on the porch of their dilapidated farmhouse in Keysvill, Ga., on Dec. 23, 1936 during the Great Depression. Left to right, Mary Lucille, Wesley, Franklin Delano (Dude), Mary Anne and Mrs. Prickett.

An automatic counter for measuring the total volume of traffic requires no directional control, since it records all vehicles passing in either direction. Its main purpose is to act as a check on the total number of vehicles as shown, Rockville, Md., Dec. 23, 1942. However, even during heavy traffic, the speeds of nearly 100 per cent of the vehicles are recorded by the speed meter.

Cook County Sheriff's Police evidence technicians remove remains of yet another body from Chicago suburban Des Plaines home of John W. Gacy Jr. on Dec. 23, 1978. Gacy was charged with murder after he confessed to killing a youth missing since Dec. 11. An undetermined number of decomposed bodies have been discovered beneath the house and in the garage area.

A blonde patient tries a mud bath at the sanitarium in Dachau on Dec. 23, 1948, a German town which is trying to wipe out the memory of the days when it was infamous for its concentration camp.

Pearl Buck, Nobel prize-winning novelist, is shown Dec. 23, 1960, has tried her hand at the age of 68 at producing a movie. It's "The Big Wave," based on one of her shorter works about a Japanese village caught between a typhoon and an erupting volcano.

This ugly cloud of smoke spread over the Binghamton area from a suspicious fire that burned thousand of scrap rubber tires of the Triple Cities Rubber Co., just southeast of Binghamton, New York, Dec. 23, 1970.

Teenage girls are all steamed up these days about straight hair. The steam iron is replacing the huge rollers on which countless teens slept every night to achieve the height and curls fashionable until. The same girls endure having their hair stretched to absolute straightness on the ironing board, and then ironed to keep it that way. Unlike the roller setting, this takes teamwork. Gay Stilley, 14, goes through an ironing session with a couple of her friends at the Stilley Home in Glen Oaks, Queens, New York City on Dec. 23, 1964. With a wary eye, Gay tries to watch the straightening process as one friend stretches her hair with a comb and another does the ironing, in the Stilley kitchen.

This is a Dec. 5, 1986 photo of the twin-engine, pusher-puller experimental aircraft named Voyager during a training flight before her historic first non-stop, un-refueled flight around the world. The plane took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Dec. 14, 1986 with 1,200 gallons of fuel onboard and returned to the desert base nine days later on Dec. 23 with 18 gallons to spare.

One building lies in rubble and another tilts in the background as smoke hovers Managua Saturday, Dec. 24, 1972, after a severe earthquake hit the city. (AP Photo)

Young East Berliners shout for joy as they run into West Berlin through an opening in the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, Fri., Dec. 23, 1989. The new East German government had promised to fully open the gate by Christmas.

Smoke billows from the entrance to the Wilberg Mine, where the bodies of 27 miners remain Dec. 23, 1984 near Orangeville, Utah. A stubborn, unpredictable fire in the mine's main tunnel has prevented rescue workers from recovering the bodies of the victims from deep within the mine.

U.S. Army Sgt. Eugene Davis from Philadelphia, Pa. hangs lights on a Christmas tree Saturday, Dec. 23, 1995 at the Tuzla Airbase in Bosnia.