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Six-year-old Iris Arlene Hildebrant, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Home for Widows and Orphans of ex-service men, Eaton Rapids, Mich., presents President Franklin D. Roosevelt the first poppy of the 1936 Buddy Poppy sale conducted by the VFW. to raise funds for relief work in Washington, May 5, 1936. The child's father, Albert A. Hildebrant, disabled in the war, died in 1932. Two sisters and a brother live with her in the Eaton Rapids home.

Accompanied by an Associated Press photographer, these federal agents raided this large-scale operation near Griffin, Ga., on May 5, 1937. Getting down to the job of breaking up equipment and destroying materials on hand, they have pulled bungs huge mash barrels.

In the highlands of Ecuador survive thousands of Quichua Indians, whose ancestors built up great civilizations in prehistoric times. They have changed little in dress and habits during thousands of years. Dandies of the Andes are these dashing Xowboys of the region of Colta, Ecuador, on May 5, 1938. They look after a few cattle but have no horses. Picture made during the expedition of Captain G. Allan Hancock to Ecuador.

A few lonely walls towering above the ruins of an office of a stockbroker in Plymouth, May 5, 1941 after the town had suffered under repeated heavy raids.

Two new and improved electron microscopes will be placed on view for the first time before a meeting of the society of American Bacteriologists at the Hotel Pennsylvania May 5, 1944 in New York. The microscopes were developed by engineers and designers of the RCA laboratories. Shown here with one of the new models are left to right: Dr. V. K. Zworykin, associate director of the laboratories; Perry Smith, design engineer; and Dr. James Hillier, young pioneer in electron microscopy, shown with the new desk-sized "Super-Eye" May 4, 1944. The electrion microscope is 50 times more sensitive than the finest optical microscope and the new size makes it available for the first time to smaller laboratories and universities.

Czech patriots in Prague, the last Nazi stronghold, rose in revolt on May 5, in an Endeavor to wrest the capital from the Germans. After driving the civilians from their houses, S.S. troops engaged in a mass slaughter. Along the highway from Benesov to Prague, anti-tank barricades were built, while German tanks ringed the city. Street fighting ensued, and many patriots were killed. Patriot snipers were posted behind barricades, in cellars, and in attics, pending the arrival of Russian troops. The scene of jubilation in Wenceslas Square, Principle Square in Prague, July 8, 1945, as the first Russian tanks rolled into the city to free it from the Nazi oppressors. Partisan forces can be seen in foreground.

Czech patriots in Prague, the Nazi stronghold, rose in revolt in an endeavour to wrest the capital from the Germans. After driving the civilians from their houses, S.S. troops engaged in a mass slaughter. Along the highway from Benesov to Prague, anti-tank barricades were built, while German tanks ringed the city. Street fighting ensued, and many patriots were killed. Patriot snipers were posted behind barricades, in cellars, and in attics, pending the arrival of Russian troops. Overwhelmed with emotion, this Czech mother kisses one of the Russian soldiers in Prague, Czech Republic on May 5, 1945, who fought to free her beloved home.

Warden James A. Johnston looks into a cell in Alcatraz Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, May 5, 1946, where rioting convicts held several guards hostages before shooting them. One of the guards died. The convicts began their riot May 2 and held out 36 hours before being killed. All together two guards were killed and 13 injured during the riot.

Duke Ellington, one of America聮s best known band leaders and composers, waving his hat in hand, is greeted by a host of fans who cheered and played his favorite tunes as he left the Central Station in Milan on May 5, 1950. Ellington arrived in Milan for a one-week performance at the Odeon Theatre.

Smoke and flame belch from muzzles of the big 155mm U.S. army guns on the western Korean front as allied artillery poured a continuous round of fire into enemy positions, May 5, 1951.

A Korean mother sets out to join other refugees streaming south once more in the face of the new communist offensive in South Korea, on May 5, 1951.

Alan B. Shepard Jr. dangled in a harness as he was lifted to a helicopter from his bobbing space capsule which landed in the Atlantic ocean after his suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 5,1961.

Medics prepare to evacuate Marine Pfc. Robert E. Herbison of Medford, Ore., after he was wounded in the head and legs by Viet Cong sniper fire, May 5, 1965. Herbison was hit during Marine offensive operation against Viet Cong village complex of Le My, southwest of Da Nang, South Vietnam on May 4.

Young black women are housed in a building at the state fairgrounds in Birmingham, Ala., May 5, 1963, following the massive desegregation protests of the past three days. The teenagers are among an estimated 1,000 people still in custody.

A South Vietnamese soldier steals a few moments of solitude to write a letter seated atop a sandbagged position on Firebase 6 in Vietnam on May 5, 1971.

North Carolina guard Michael Jordan, left, and Tar Heels coach Dean Smith are shown at a news conference in this May 5, 1984 photo in Chapel Hill, N.C., where Jordan announced he would forfeit his final year of college eligibility to turn pro.

Family walking in Catholic area of Belfast, Northern Ireland on May 5, 1981, after the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

A boy looks at a notice fixed to the locked gate of a playground in Wiesbaden, May 5, 1986, that reads: 'This ground is preliminarily closed'. A week after the atomic reactor explosion in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, the city council closed all playgrounds after detecting nuclear radiation levels of 124 to 280 Becquerel.