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A Boeing 747 jumbo jet plane taking off for its first flight at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washi., USA on Feb. 9, 1969. The 747 is the world's largest commerical aircraft.

This shot was made a short time before Floyd Collins' last venturesome journey thru the mazes the clamminess, the murkinesses of Sand Cave, in Cave City, Kentucky, on Feb. 9, 1925. Ten days this gritty and daring mid westerner whose hard luck has stirred world wide interest and sympathy has been pinioned in darkness, wetness and horror under a ten ton boulder in the cold entrails of the earth. Neither pains nor expense are being spared to take him living or to retrieve him dead. Rescuers are toiling like sons of Anak to reach him quickly. Photo shows: Collins peering thru a break in one of the clammy and grotesque interior partition of the cavern. Note the crystal formations. A comrade who accompanied the intrepid explorer took this photograph.

Members of the Belgium royal family enjoy a skiing break in St Moritz, Switzerland, Feb. 9, 1928. King Albert I, right, Queen Elisabeth, left, and Princess Marie-Jose Charlotte.

Pope Pius XI at the inauguration of the new wireless installation at the Vatican City, Rome, Italy on Feb. 9, 1931.

On occasion of the first anniversary of Adolf Hitler聮s government, an enormous crowd gathered in the Wilhelmstrasse and shouted to the chancellor in Berlin, Germany on Feb. 9, 1934.

Workmen clear debris and rubble from collapsed buildings at the Veteran's Hospital in Sylmar, Calif., after a massive earthquake hit the area, Feb. 9, 1971.

Movie actor Mickey Rooney with an armful of millionaires and dancing a jig in Detroit on Feb. 9, 1940. With him are Edsel and Henry Ford. Rooney has the title role in a Thomas Edison film which will have its world premiere Saturday at Port Huron, Mich. Henry Ford and Edison were close friends. Rooney was a guest of the Fords.

A traffic policeman halts a motorist on a street in Dunkerque on Feb. 9, 1941, French coastal town bombarded by the Germans during the evacuation of British troops last spring. The town since then has become a target for British airmen.

Rescue workers use cables to haul the shattered nose of a Japan Airlines DC-8 away from the body, into which it telescoped on impact in the shallows of Tokyo Bay short of the Haneda Airport runway, Feb. 9, 1982. Crash took the lives of at least 22 passengers.

Television performer Oprah Winfrey during the broadcast from Cumming, Georgia on Feb. 9, 1987. Program officials said 聯we want them to explore for themselves聰 whether or not they are responsible for the negative image drawn to their community, what they hope to do about their public image and if they truly support segregation in this day and age.

Yank soldiers of the third army examine the graves of enemy soldiers who were buried in front of a wrecked church in the town of Hoscherlerdicht, located on the Skyline Drive which runs on the top of a number of the Ardennes Mountains in Belgium, Feb. 9, 1945. Heavy fighting took place along the road, which was heavily defended because of its strategic position. In clearing the road, third army forces drove the enemy across the Roer River.

Prince Charles, with his mother, Queen Elizabeth II and his sister, Princess Anne, left, as they sit in an automobile following their arrival in London, Feb. 9, 1953, by train from a six-week Christmas vacation at Sandringham,England.

West guard Magic Johnson laughs before the start of the 42nd annual NBA All Star game at the Orlando Arena in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 9, 1992. Johnson, a starter for the West squad, was to play in his first game of the season after retiring due to testing positive to the AIDS virus.

Rosey Grier, defensive tackle for the New York Giants, gives out a song as he makes his Carnegie Hall debut, Feb. 9, 1963. Grier is a self-described second tenor which he defines as being about half-way between a baritone and a tenor. The 300-pound football player was greeted with enthusiasm by a crowd of 3,500 New York music lovers as he sang two songs. His singing was part of a three-hour concert called "Special Salute to the Artistic Achievements of Negro Performers."

An unidentified boy inspects an 1885 Daimler motor cycle which is on display at a veteran motorcycle exhibition at Bale, Switzerland, Feb. 9, 1971. The motorcycle, mostly made of wood with wooden wheels, is powered with a one cylinder gasoline engine.

People surround a bomb crater on Feb. 9, 1991 in a Baghdad street after a recent allied bombing raid, according to AP correspondent Salah Nasrawi who shot this photo.

Robin Williams, left, and Christopher Reeve, attempt to hail a taxicab in New York City on Feb. 9, 1981. Williams went to see Reeve, who is appearing in the play "The Fifth of July", backstage after his performance Friday night.