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Chinese New Year is celebrated in Philadelphia's Chinatown, Feb. 17, 1964, as a 50-foot dragon, symbol of benevolence, winds its way through the streets. The brightly decorated dragon was imported from Hong Kong for the celebration marking the Chinese year 4662.

Lew Alcindor, New York City's wonder of the high school hardwood circuit, basketball that is, runs through workout in preparation for tournament play, Feb. 17, 1965 in New York. The 7-foot-1 star has received numerous offers from colleges and even the pros say he's one of the hottest players to come along since wilt chamberlain. He plays for power memorial high school.

A photographer on his way to the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, on Feb 17, 1941, using a bicycle taxi now common in many European cities.

Ronald Sato, 6, and Matty Filippello, 8, studying model planes sent to the Kips Bay Boys Club sent to them by the Navy in New York, Feb. 17, 1942. With other members of the club the boys will construct similar models which will be used by the Navy to assist in the training of personnel.

This Marauder medium bomber is not in distress. The white smoke is coming from a locomotive on the tracks below and not from the right engine of the plane. Flying over the English countryside while returning from a raid over Europe, Feb. 17, 1944.

Casey Stengel, manager of the New York Yankees, poses with a crystal ball at Yankee Stadium Feb. 17, 1949. Stengel's Yankees went on to win the pennant and defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in a five-game "subway" World Series.

In this Feb. 17, 1965 file photo, African Americans stand in line in the rain to try to register for a voter registration test in Selma, Ala.

Michael Hartung, 46, an unemployed welder shown Feb. 17, 1951 says this is the way he picked coins off the pavement with this teeth on New Year聮s Eve trying to convince officers he was not drunk. He went on trial in Los Angeles, California on Feb. 16, on a plea of not guilty to charges of drunkenness. The officers who arrested him said they found his automobile littered with bottles and said they weren聮't convinced by his demonstration.

Cars spin out of control as they slip down the back straight away of the Daytona International Speedway, Feb. 17, 1979, in Daytona Beach. Joe Frasson's car (50) exploded as it was hit by another car. In all there were 8 cars involved in the accident which happened on the 4th lap of the Sportsman 300.

Joseph Gallo, known as 'Crazy Joe Gallo,' wears sunglasses as he testifies before the Senate Rackets Committee in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 1959.

Ralph Howard holds a six-legged lamb born on his farm in Roseburg, Oregon on Feb. 17, 1962. Howard is bottle-feeding the lamb and keeping it in the house to try to prevent pneumonia. The lamb uses the regulation four legs. The extra two dangle from the chest.

President Barack Obama signs the economic stimulus bill during a ceremony in the Museum of Nature and Science in Denver on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, as Vice President Joe Biden watches.

This aircraft, which was flown for the first time last month in France, is the flying saucer dream of Jean Grimaldi, a Normandy merry-go-round owner. It is equipped with two 28-horsepower motors which propel two horizontal and two vertical propellers, shown Feb. 17, 1962. The craft can take off like a plane or like a helicopter and has a forward speed of nearly 200 miles an hour.

Hugh Hefner poses in front of his five and a half million dollar black jet plane with unidentified Playboy Bunnies, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1970, Chicago, Ill.

Technicians and officials inspect the aluminum covered Apollo 1 spacecraft after it was lowered from its booster at pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Florida on Feb. 17, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, lost their lives when a flash fire raced through the spacecraft on Jan. 27. For the next several days the vehicle will be examined in detail by investigators probing to find out what caused the tragedy.

President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon wave as they board Air Force One, dubbed The Spirit of '76, at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, Feb. 17, 1972. They flew by helicopter to Andrews from the White House for the journey to China with stops in Hawaii and Guam.