Henri Huet, The Associated PressIn a sudden monsoon rain, part of a company of about 130 South Vietnamese regional soldiers moves downriver in sampans during a dawn attack against a Viet Cong camp in the flooded Mekong Delta, about 13 miles northeast of Cantho, on Jan. 10, 1966. A handful of guerrillas were reported killed or wounded.
The Associated PressA Volkswagen Beetle with a mouse design which belongs to an exterminating company in Tokyo, Japan shown around Jan. 10, 1972. The design was put on the vehicle to match the local zodiac year.
John Lindsay, The Associated PressMadame Bey sits down at a piano and sings a song for her son, Rustem Bey, chief of police of Chatham Township, N.J., Jan 10, 1938. As stern as she is in matters of fight training discipline, Madame Bey has a softer side to her nature. She once was a concert singer, and still loves to run through her old repertoire. Rustem listens fondly to his mother's voice.
The Associated PressCecil Travis, Washington infielder, whose batting average rated him second in the American league for 1941, put away his bat for an army rifle Jan.10, 1942. Travis was inducted into the service at Ft. McPherson, Atlanta, GA.
The Associated PressIn this distinguished group which met in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 10, 1931 to discuss scientific problems are, left to right: Walter S. Adams, astronomer and director of the Mt. Wilson Carnegie observatory; Dr. Albert A. Michelson, formerly of Chicago University, who measured the speed of light; Dr. Albert Einstein, famed for his theory of relativity; and Dr. Robert A. Millikan, president of the California Institute and discoverer of the cosmic ray. The latter three have been awarded the Nobel Prize.
The Associated PressLoretta North of Australia, who recently won the title of "Miss Kangaroo", pays special attention to the lucky animals in her suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, Jan. 10, 1952. Loretta came to the U.S. accompanied by the two kangaroos, Matilda, wrapped in blanket and Joey-Roo. Matilda took ill while in Washington, D.C. and was ordered to bed by Loretta.
The Associated PressSharecroppers preparing a simple meal on a kitchen stove on public highway near Sikeston, Missouri on Jan. 10, 1939. Estimated by the state highway patrol to number 1,000, sharecroppers who reported they had been evicted from their homes encamped on public highways to call attention to their plight.
The Associated PressAn endless line of German and Italian prisoners being marched down from the desert to Tobruk harbor Jan. 10, 1942 for transport by sea to prisoner-of-war camps. It was stated in Jan. 8, that the total of axis prisoners from the Libya fighting was 25,000 of which 6,000 were Germans.
John Rooney, The Associated PressBabe Ruth waves as he arrives at his home at 110 Riverside Drive in New York, Jan. 27, 1948, from the Neurological Institute of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He had been in the hospital for a check-up since Jan. 10. He plans to leave for Florida by train, Jan. 29, for a three or four weeks vacation.
Susan Adkisson, The Associated PressFormer first lady of Arkansas Hillary Rodham Clinton is shown during an interview in Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 10, 1983. She will once again be the first lady of Arkansas when her husband, Governor-elect Bill Clinton, is inaugurated tomorrow. Governor-elect Clinton defeated Republican Governor Frank D. White in the Nov. 1982 gubernatorial election.
The Associated PressWendell Broomhall leads members of the U.S. Olympic cross country ski team up a hill, Jan. 10, 1952 at Sun Valley, Idaho, where the group is training. Coach Leif Odmark is at left. The cross country team will sail from New York on Jan. 21 for the Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
The Associated PressSir Edmund Hillary, right, leader of the New Zealand Antartic expedition, and Robert Miller of Masterton, New Zealand, deputy leader of the expedition, are seen at the New Zealand camp on Ross Island in the Antarctic, on Jan. 10, 1957.
Preston Stroup, The Associated PressA mecca for auto buffs is the annual Autorama in Detroit, Michigan, Jan. 10, 1964. This years show, the 12th, brought out a display of red-hot hot rods and fantastic dream cars, with more conservative custom cars, go-karts, hand-built and antique cars, drag boats and model cars, 250 or more exhibits in all. Cars entered in competition for prizes at the show must have competed successfully in at least four other shows. Palema Dulmage, Queen of the Autorama, stands by space age car.
The Associated PressBritish fashion model Twiggy plays around on the bumper cars at the Bertram Mills Circus in London, England on Jan. 10, 1967.
The Associated PressThrough the century-old rows of vines, too close together to permit use of tractors, a workers in the Paul Masson Vineyards, on Jan. 10, 1964 in Saratoga, California, guides a horse-drawn plow.
The Associated PressBlack power militant H. Rap Brown talks with newsmen from the doorway of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York on Jan. 10, 1968. Brown took sanctuary inside the mission for nearly six hours after a policeman sought to arrest him.
David Smith, The Associated PressModels pose with hairdos on Jan. 10, 1975. Location unknown. (AP Photo/David Smith))
The Associated PressFILE- In this Oct. 19, 1982 file photo, lead singer David Lee Roth, left, and lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen perform during a concert at The Spectrum in Philadelphia. Van Halen will tour in 2012. The rock band has posted a video on its website announcing that the first tickets will go on sale Jan. 10, but no other details.
The Associated PressAlbert DeSalvo, 34-year-old mental patient who says he is the Boston Strangler, arrives at court in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 10, 1967, in police custody for trial on a variety of charges not related to the stranglings.
Wally Fong, The Associated PressMichael J. Fox, who plays a conservative teenager on the television series Family Ties, sees his character as a budding William Buckley, Jan 10, 1983. The show centers around a family in which the parents are liberals from the 1960s and the children are part of the new swing to the right.
The Associated PressTeacher Christa McAuliffe of Concord, New Hampshire, right, and mission specialist Judith Resnik talk with reporters at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Jan. 9, 1986, after a dry countdown test in preparation for the Jan. 23 launch of Space Shuttle Mission 51-L. McAuliffe is America's first teacher-astronaut.
Anthony Camerano, The Associated PressAn Army Sikorsky R-5 helicopter, undergoing record trials, demonstrates its lifting power by carrying 17 persons and pilot aloft as female onlookers wave in Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 10, 1946. During the tests records were claimed for altitude speed and both altitude and speed with payload.
Heinrich Sanden Sr., The Associated PressNew program of Munich's Krone Circus performed by two American artists "The Carmenas" during a press conference in Munich, Germany on Jan. 10, 1962, while sitting in a coffee-house.
Richard Drew, The Associated PressActor Joe Mantegna, left, and rap star Vanilla Ice tape promotions as guests on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" in New York City on Jan. 10, 1991.
David Brauchli, The Associated PressA Chechen fighter opposite the presidential palace, in background, keeps an eye out for snipers as a refugee makes her way across the main square out of harms way on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1995 in Grozny. A ceasefire called by the Russian government for the next-48-hours quickly collapsed Tuesday as heavy shelling and small-arms fire again filled the Chechen capital.
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In a sudden monsoon rain, part of a company of about 130 South Vietnamese regional soldiers moves downriver in sampans during a dawn attack against a Viet Cong camp in the flooded Mekong Delta, about 13 miles northeast of Cantho, on Jan. 10, 1966. A handful of guerrillas were reported killed or wounded.
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