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Children in the city of Mainz on Rhine are shown on May 3, 1934 during the 聯prayer for the Saar territory.聰 On their side, the leader of the German work front, Dr. Robert. Ley.

HMS Prince of Wales, a King George V class 35,000 ton battleship, is launched in front of vast crowds, by Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, unseen, on the River Mersey at Birkenhead, England, on May 3, 1939. Forty-thousand people cheered as she slipped into the water after a faultless launch. She is to be the world鈥檚 fastest battleship, with a speed of over 30 knots. Her horse power and speed are confidential and no figures are being issued. She carried ten fourteen inch guns in three turrets and a secondary armament of sixteen 5-录 inch guns.

This is a portion of the near-capacity crowd that packed Wrigley Field in Chicago, July 17, 1938 to see Dizzy Dean defeat the Boston Bees, 3 to 1, in his first appearance on the mound for the cubs since May 3. Dizzy only a four hits .

Explorer Russell G. Frazier gazes at the forms made by heavy ice at the West base during Adm. Richard Byrd's third expedition to Antartica on May 3, 1941.

A section of the 5,000 men who were "graduated" into active duty with the motorized Fourth Division at Fort Benning, Ga., May 3, 1941, stand in line during a review. The men come from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the largest group of selective service trainees ever turned to durty in the U.S. Army at one time.

People of Nigeria, Africa, build a U.S. Army Air Force base for the Air Transport Command, May 3, 1944.

A formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. 15th Air Force fly, leaving a deadly hail of bombs of the important German Aircraft factory at Weiner Neustadt, south of Vienna Austria, May 3, 1944. Returning crews reported hits on the target, a large production center for Messerschmitt single-engined fighter planes.

A huge Nazi Swastika painted on the tail of the new German plane Field-Marshal Von Hindenburg which arrived at Croydon, London, on its maiden flight from Berlin, on May 3, 1933.

Four mountain climbers brave stiff winds as they scale the lace-like 300-meter-high Eiffel Tower in Paris in a televised record feat on May 3, 1964. The climb was timed with the 75th anniversary of the tower which was dedicated on May 6, 1889. The climbers said they did it 聯for the fun of it.聰

Mothers with babies in carriages sit in the playground of the New York City Housing Authority's Alfred E. Smith Houses on the Lower East Side, May 3, 1956. Blacks and whites live together in this housing project of 8,000 persons, half of whom are children.

Golda Meir, Israeli Foreign Minister, meets with U.S.President John F. Kennedy at the White House in 1962. She was born on this date in 1898.

Fans greet San Francisco Giants center fielder Willie Mays outside the New York Hotel at Madison Avenue and 46th Street, May 3, 1963. Tonight is "Willie Mays" night at the Polo Grounds as the Giants begin their four-game series against the New York Mets.

A 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator, defying an anti-parade ordinance of Birmingham, Ala., is attacked by a police dog on May 3, 1963. On the afternoon of May 4, 1963, during a meeting at the White House with members of a political group, President Kennedy discussed this photo, which had appeared on the front page of that day's New York Times.

Firemen ignore seated demonstrators on a Birmingham, Ala. sidewalk, May 3, 1963, and turn their water hoses across the street to disperse a jeering crowd of blacks.

Black youth demonstrators sit on the sidewalk with hands behind their heads as high pressure hoses are turned on their backs during a racial demonstration in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963.

One of 10 integrationist has a last look at sign they carried 聯Equal Rights for All-Miss. or Bust聰 as he is dragged off after they were arrested at Alabama State line, May 3, 1963 as they tried to walk through Alabama in memory of William Moore who was slain walking the same route advocating integration.

African American voters file past a makeshift polling place in Hayneville May 3, 1966 to cast ballots for seven nominees of the Lowndes Country Freedom Organization Black Panther Party.

Fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from rotors of helicopter which landed them in jungle clearing 70 miles North of Saigon on May 3, 1966. They moved on Viet Cong supply bases along the Rach Beng River, the border between South Viet Nam and Cambodia, and seized hundreds of tons of equipment.

Folk singer Pete Seeger strums a banjo on the bow of the 75-foot Hudson River Sloop Clearwater to be launched in South Bristol, Maine, May 14, 1969. Seeger was born on May 3, 1919. Seeger and a group of volunteers had the $150,000 vessel built to dramatize the fight against the pollution of the Hudson River and valley. Seeger and his singing crew will hold concerts along the New England coast en route to New York this summer.

The casket of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover lies in state under the Capitol Dome in Washington D.C. on May 3, 1972.

Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney sings for a sold out Fort Worth, Texas audience on May 3, 1976 as 聯Paul McCartney and Wings聰 begin their U.S. Tour. This is the first appearance for McCartney before a U.S. crowd in many years.

A kiss for Margaret Thatcher outside her home in Chelsea, London on May 4, 1979, from two-year-old Timothy Simmonds who also presented her with a knitted woollen rabbit in Conservative Party colors. Mrs. Thatcher's Conservatives swept to victory in the British general election on May 3 ousting Jim Gallaghan's Labor Party. She becomes the first ever British woman prime minister.

Ethiopian captives are taken back for the night to their POW camp after a day of work, in the rebel held Ayteray Valley in northern Eritrea province, Ethiopia on May 3, 1990. The civil war has been going on for nearby 30 years.

Donell Moore, 7, carries his three-year-old sister, Deshe, in front of a graffiti-sprayed wall of a burned-out drugstore in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 3, 1992 as their family walked the streets of the riot-torn city. The children?s father, Larry Moore said the experience will not be forgotten by his kids and may even make them stronger.

A young Cambodian boy, wearing a Khmer Rouge cap, looks out through barbed wire Sunday, May 3, 1998, at a refugee camp near Huay Samran, Thailand. Refugees fleeing the fighting between Khmer Rouge and Cambodia forces continue to seek safety in Thailand.

Young Rwandan Hutus await clean water at an aid station in the Biaro refugee camp south of Kisangani Saturday, May 3, 1997. The United Nations is evacuating more than 1,000 refugees per day from Kisangani though about 30,000 refugees have returned to camps south of Kisangani, the vast majority are still unaccounted for in the jungle

A Hutu refugee carries a malnourished family member through the Biaro refugee camp south of Kisangani Saturday, May 3, 1997. The United Nations is evacuating refugees from the squalid camp for repatriation to Rwanda.

Tammy Holmgren huddles beneath a highway underpass with her two daughters, Megan, 6, right, and Katlyn, 2, partially obscured, as a tornado approaches along the H.E. Bailey Turnpike outside Newcastle, Okla., Monday, May 3, 1999. The family was uninjured, but the tornado left a trail of death and destruction through central Oklahoma.