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The Sprit of St. Louis, the $7,500 monoplane shown May 2, 1927 in which Charles A. Lindbergh, St. Louis airmail pilot will attempt the New York to Paris flight in competition for the Orteig $25,000 prize. The plane was completed and tested at San Diego, Calif. It has a wing span of 46 feet, weights 4,750 pounds and has a cruising speed of 105 miles an hour. Tank capacity for 425 gallons of gasoline and 28 gallons of oil.

Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi acknowledges the crowd who welcomed him at Bombay Station, India, May 2, 1929.

Work is carried on to carve out the shoulders and busts of Lincoln and Washington in Rushmore, S.D. on May 2, 1933. The figures are designed by Gutzom Borglum.

Part of the huge batch of men who arrived at the recruiting office in Great Scotland Yard, London on May 2, 1939. The push to increase the regular army has been increased by the introduction of the conscription bill. There is no difference in normal long-term recruiting, which is still on a strictly voluntary basis.

Japanese forces driving through Yenangyaung and Mandalay in Burma during April and May found little left of the cities except charred ruins and heaps of blackened debris. Before the fall of Yenangyaung, April 21, 1942, the skies were afire with the blazing skeletons of oil-field derricks. Steel structures were warped by bonfires lighted beneath them; machinery was destroyed and repair shops were razed. Destruction of the city was completed over a three week period of time. All that remained to be burned on the last day were houses kept intact until the last minute for the use of evacuees and troops. The $1,000,000 power plant running the Yenangyaung oil fields was blown to pieces. At Mandalay the story was the same. The pagoda-crowned city which fell to the Japanese on May 2, was deserted and in ruins-mostly caused by Japanese bombings, partly by the scorched earth policy of the evacuating British forces, partly by the work of fifth columnists and looters.

Raising their little hands in salute to Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, are these Chinese children, orphaned by the war in their native land. Madame Chiang visited the children at a War Orphans Home near Chungking in opening ceremonies on May 2, 1944.

In his radio address to the American people and the coal miners of the country, shortly after the announcement a two-week truce in the coal mine stoppage by UMW chief John L. Lewis, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, reading a prepared broadcast in Washington on May 2, 1943, which was unchanged despite the truce announcement, said 聯The war is going to go on. Coal will be mined no matter what any individual thinks about it. Our munitions must move to our troops.聰

Probably for the first time in their lives children in Belsen camps are able to laugh and play normally. Sweets toys and clothing have been sent in from outside the camp, some commandeered some given by soldiers and relief organizations. These four babies wearing new boots and warm clothes look all the brighter in Belsen camps, Gemany, on May 2, 1945, since the British took over their welfare.

People raise their clenched fists in a welcoming salute for the Chinese Communists forces entering the city of Peking, May 2, 1949. Behind them are portraits of the leaders of the Chinese Communists, the centre picture of the Commander in Chief General Mao Tse Tung.

African-American and white students mingle outside of Oak Ridge High School where they will study together starting in the fall, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., May 2, 1955. The Atomic Energy Commission has ordered desegregation in junior and senior high schools of the federal atomic community. Some individual opposition has been expressed, but there has been no organized protest. School officials and student leaders think integration will be effected with little difficulty. It will bring in about 100 African-American students into schools with a total enrollment of about 3,200. Sixteen months ago opposition to desegregation was strong enough to threaten the ouster of the town council chairman who proposed it. Officials see a change in attitude since then.

North Korean demonstrators carry portrait of that country聮s Communist Prime Minister, Kim Il Sung, during May Day festivities in Japan, May 2, 1959. In background is the Japanese National Diet building in Tokyo.

Woman demonstrator carrying a paper bag and a torn placard is escorted by New York City policeman in the area of Fifth Avenue and 47th street on Aug. 15, 1964. She was one of 250 demonstrators who attempted to hold a rally in Duffy Square to protest U.S. action in Vietnam. They were battled by police and about thirty arrests made when they attempted to walk towards the United Nations headquarters. Rally was called by the 聯May 2 Movement聰 and 聯Youth against War and Fascism聰 organizations.

Members of the Black Panther Party argue with a California state policeman at the Capitol after he disarmed them May 2, 1967. The armed Panthers entered the Capitol protesting a bill before the Legislature. The bill would restrict the carrying of arms in public. The guns held by the policeman were taken from the Panthers.

The Poor People's Campaign march stretches out into the distance behind a team of mules pulling a farm wagon as it gets underway in Memphis, May 2, 1968.

An exhausted and wounded South Vietnamese tank soldier is helped to medical station during fighting for a Viet Cong ammunition cache in Cambodia Saturday, May 2, 1970, nine miles north of Prasaut in the northern sector of the Parrot聮s Beak area. The U.S. Command announced on Saturday that two American troops have been killed in ground fighting in Cambodia.

Former President Ronald Reagan, left, and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev don cowboy hats while enjoying a quiet moment May 2, 1992, on Reagan's Rancho del Cielo, a 688 acre spread in the mountains 30 miles north of Santa Barbara, California. Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, are on a two week tour of the United States.

A Muslim militiaman sprints for cover after a tank round, fired by Yugoslav federal army, struck an apartment house across the street in Sarajevo on Saturday, May 2, 1992. The Yugoslav Army attacked the Bosnian capital with mortar rounds and heavy artillery after Muslim forces surrounded the army聮s barracks here.

A Muslim woman weeps on the shoulder of a Bosnian soldier in the destroyed downtown area of Vitez, Bosnia, Sunday, May 2, 1993. Vitez, where British U.N. soldiers are based, has been the site of intense fighting in recent weeks. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, threatened with Western military intervention and pressure from his patrons in Yugoslavia, approved a plan Sunday to end a year of ethnic warfare.

Soweto Township residents celebrate in Soweto, South Africa, Monday, May 2, 1994, the African National Congress' (ANC) victory in South Africa's historic all race general elections. ANC's President Nelson Mandela will be sworn in as South Africa's first black President Friday.

African National Congress President Nelson Mandela dances as he gets up on stage to deliver his victory address in downtown Johannesburg Monday May 2, 1994. He become the first black president in South Africa's history.