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Clara Bow, former movie star, poses with St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean at the ball game against the Cincinnati Reds in St. Louis, Mo., April 30, 1937.

Members of the Hitler Youth participate in burning books, in Salzburg, Austria, on April 30, 1938. The burning of books that are condemned as Jewish-Marxist is a vast anti-Semitic activity of Nazi Germany.

Swift and formidable bombers for the United States air defence move three abreast down production lines of the Douglas Aircraft company聮s in Santa Monica, California on April 30, 1941, plant with 18,000 employees maintaining operations around the clock, this plant and the Douglas division at El Segundo are accelerating their-output of military planes to meet the needs of national security.

Trouped on the south lawn of the White House with their hostess first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, are movie actors and actresses who were guests for tea in White House in Washington, April 30, 1942. Left to right, seated, are: Oliver Hardy, Joan Blondell, Charlotte Greenwood, Charles Boyer, Rise Stevens, Desi Arnaz, Frank McHugh, Matt Brooks, James Cagney, Pat O?Brien, Juanita Starke and Alma Carroll. Standing, left to right: Merle Oberon, Eleanor Powell, Arlene Whelan, Marie McDonald, Fay McKenzie, Katherine Booth, Mrs. Roosevelt, Frances Gifford, Frances Langford, Elyse Knox, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Bob Hope, Joan Bennett, Bert Lahr, Jack Rose, Stan Laurel, Jerry Colonna and Groucho Marx. The film celebrities were in Washington for the first performance of a show which they will present in a number for the benefit of Army and Navy relief funds.

With some famous signs already darkened because of "Dimout" orders, Times Square, in New York, is pictured a few moments before the blackout, April 30, 1942.

Historic York was victim to a Nazi Raid, April 30, 1942. The railway station is shown after the raid.

Mae Zelinsky, left, and Betty O'Beda test ammunition on a .30 caliber rifle at a Remington Arms plant on April 30, 1943. Many women took over jobs that were left vacant when men went overseas to fight in World War II.

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler stands in his car and salutes thousands of Hitler Youth at the Post Stadium, Berlin, May, 1, 1936, where he will address the massed crowd as part of the May Day Celebrations. As one of the most notorious tyrants in world history, Hitler helped form the Nazi Party in 1919. He became the dictator of Germany in 1933, and launched the holocaust as a "final solution" to the "Jewish problem" as well as gypsies and homosexuals. In 1939, he invaded Poland and began World War II which ravaged Europe. The Fuhrer of the Third Reich committed suicide on April 30, 1945, with his mistress, Eva Braun.

The end came rapidly. On April 30, with Russian troops on his doorstep, Hitler killed himself in his bunker in Berlin. On May 4, German forces in Holland, Denmark, and northwest Germany surrendered to British Field Marshal Montgomery. On May 7, Germany signed an unconditional surrender with the Allies in Reims, France. Here, looking north from Forty-fourth Street, New York's Times Square is packed with crowds celebrating the news.

When the Second British Army took the prison camp at Westertinke near Bremen, which had been the only naval prison camp in Germany, they found that many American and Allied prisoners had been moved in by the retreating Germans from camps farther to the west. Some of the faces of the released soldiers indicating their feelings on being released at Westertinke near Bremen, Germany on April 30, 1945.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. found a lot of enthusiastic takers as he shook hands with a group of girls in Lisman after addressing a political rally in Lisman, Alabama on April 30, 1966. The girls held on to his hands and arms and aides had to help tug him free from the group. Lisman was one of nine stops in the Alabama Black Belt that Rev. King made in an effort to unify the African American vote in the upcoming Alabama primary election.

A South Vietnamese helicopter is jettisoned overboard from the USS Blue Ridge somewhere off Vietnam, April 30, 1975. The helicopter was one of those discarded from the ship because of damaged condition or to make room for others attempting to land. The aircraft still bears its old U.S. military markings.

South Vietnamese civilians try to scale the high U.S. Embassy wall in desperate attempts to get abroad on the evacuation flights in Saigon, Vietnam, April 30, 1975.

Co-pilot Mimi Tompkins, standing in doorway, helps a man slide down a chute of a heavily damaged Aloha Airlines jet shortly after landing on April 30, 1988. Pilot Robert Schornstheimer, at front of damaged section, looks on.

Looters mill in the parking lot of the ABC Market in South Central Los Angeles, April 30, 1992, as violence and looting ensued on the first day of riots following the verdicts in the Rodney King assault case. On April 29, 1992, four white police officers were declared innocent in the beating of black motorist Rodney King, and Los Angeles erupted in the deadliest riots of the century. Three days later, 55 people were dead and more than 2,000 injured. Fires and looting had destroyed $1 billion worth of property.