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Jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and trumpeter Roy Eldridge pose for photographers after arriving at the airport in Hamburg, West Germany on Feb. 15, 1954 for a tour of Germany with other top jazz figures. They were scheduled to appear before German audiences on promoter/producer Norman Grayz' "Jazz at the Philharmonic."

Happiness registers on the faces of these British soldiers as they read their first mail on German soil, amid the ruins of a German village, on the road to the Rhine on Feb. 15, 1945. From left to right; Private J. Laird, from Scotland, Private J. Bryce, from Scotalnd and Corporal D. Devine from England.

Here is a closeup of the death warrant which will send Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the death chair in the state prison at Trenton, New Jersey. The warrant was photographed in Flemington, N.J. Feb. 15, 1935 where Hauptman was convicted of slaying the Lindbergh baby.

Children at Point Pleasant Junior High School, West Virginia, denied themselves Christmas presents last year and sent the $50 saved as a result to the King, asking that it should,"be given to some boy or girl of your realm who needs help.聰 The king asked the Mayoress of Windsor to select six evacuee children now billeted in Windsor, and to take them out to the shops with the $50, now changed to £12 6s 11d, and fit them out with clothes or anything else they needed. One of the little evacuees being fitted with boots on the shopping tour, while the lady Mayoress of Windsor supervises the purchase and the other little evacuees look on in Windsor Feb. 15, 1941.

Remarkable picture of the guns of a Hurricane aircraft of Fighter Command Royal Air Force firing a burst of 1600 rounds at night. To secure the luminous effect a proportion of one tracer bullet in four rounds was introduced. The effect recorded by a camera placed on the ground on the port side of the Hurricane, at an airfield in England, on Feb. 15, 1942.

Charles (Chuck) Moses, 16, shows the surgical scar on his chest, that resulted from an operation on his heart, Feb. 15, 1953. Using plastic surgery and a mechanical heart to keep him alive, doctors repaired a faulty valve on the right side of the Detroit boy聮s heart. It was the second known time a human has been kept alive by the 聯Michigan heart聰 while his own heart took a holiday for surgery.

Holding her dolly is Michelina Valente, 8 years old and 300 pounds, who is traveling with a circus in Milan, Italy on Feb. 15, 1954. She was born in Naples.

Britain's first jet deflection plane, an experimental Gloster Meteor aircraft fitted with 60-degree downward deflection units beneath each of its two rolls Royce Nene jet engines, shown Feb. 15, 1955. Thrust from the deflected jet streams enables the plane to take off on shorter runways,and considerably reduces the stalling speed.

Actress Julie Andrews is shown in her dressing room at the Mark Hellinger Theatre where she is starring in "My Fair Lady" in the role of Eliza Doolittle in New York City, Feb. 15, 1957.

Actress Julie Andrews is shown in her dressing room at the Mark Hellinger Theatre where she is starring in "My Fair Lady" in the role of Eliza Doolittle in New York City, Feb. 15, 1957.

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 1961 file photo, smoldering wreckage of a Sabena Boeing jet airliner that crashed near Brussels, Belgium. The 17-member U.S. skating team and their coach were among the 72 persons aboard the plane. All on board were killed. (AP Photo/File)

Duke Ellington arrived in West Berlin on Tempelhof airfield, Feb. 15, 1963. Duke Ellington is giving a jazz concert in the Berlin Deutschlandhalle. Having left the airplane, he is scolded by a stewardess when he tries to light a cigarette.

Giuseppe Zangara, Hackensack, N.J. bricklayer, center, is shown in criminal court in Miami, Fla., Feb. 17, 1933, surrounded by unidentified deputies, waiting for arraignment for his attempt to assassinate President-elect Franklin Roosevelt and wounding Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, and four others, on Feb. 15. Arraignment was postponed.

Mrs. Gayle Edwards, of Grand Rapids, Mich., holds the hands of her sons Bennett, 11, left, and Spencer, 13, during the funeral for her husband, Marine Capt. Jonathon "Jack" Edwards, at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 15, 1991. Seated at left rear is her daughter Adrianna, 8. Edwards was killed while flying a support mission in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.

Singer Bob Dylan entertains at the Forum in Los Angeles, Feb 15, 1974.

Two young men stand in a driving snow storm on Interstate 75 on Detroit聮s North Side, Feb. 15, 1975, seeking a ride south to the sun. Southern and lower Michigan is expected to receive about 2 to 4 inches of the soft white powder.

Comedian Steve Martin holds the Grammy Award which he won for Best Comedy Recording for the album "A Wild And Crazy Guy," in Los Angeles, Feb. 15, 1979.

Record producer Phil Ramone and singer Andy Gibb smile at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Feb. 15, 1979.

Eric Heiden, of Madison, Wisc. USA, on his way to win the 500 m Olympic speed skating event on Friday, Feb. 15, 1980 in Lake Placid. He was clocked 38.03.

President Ronald Reagan meets "McGruff" the crime dog, during Crime Prevention Week ceremonies at the White House in Washington, Feb. 15, 1984. Sergeant Winston Cavendish of the St. Tammany's Parish Sheriff Department put on the "McGruff" outfit to take part in the ceremony that recognized elected officials, law enforcement officers and citizen volunteers.

Developer Donald Trump, center, is flanked by super middleweight champion Thomas Hearns, left, of Detroit, and Michael Olajide of Canada at a news conference in New York Thursday, Feb. 15, 1990. The three announced the super middleweight title bout at Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort at Atlantic city, N. J on April 28.