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The German dirigible Hindenburg crashes to earth, tail first, in flaming ruins after exploding on May 6, 1937, at the U.S. Naval Station in Lakehurst, N.J. The 1920s and 1930s were the golden age of dirigibles which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in about three days -- faster than a ship. The Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built at 804 feet long and flew up to 85 miles per hour while held aloft by hydrogen, which was highly flammable. The disaster, which killed 36 people after a 60-hour transatlantic flight from Germany, ended regular passenger service by the lighter-than-air airships.

Sigmund Freud contemplates a bust of himself, sculpted for his 75th birthday by O. Nemen, centre, and presented to him in 1931 in the garden of his village home in Potzlein, near Vienna. Freud's studies of the subconcious changed the whole concept of man's mind.

Several of the hundreds of relief clients who demanded food at the Cleveland City Relief Station May 6, 1938 as the city felt another of its poor aid crises.

Benito Mussolini is shown with Countess Ciano, his daughter, right, and his two grandchildren, Fabrizio, right, and Maria, at the International Horse Show in Rome on May 6, 1939.

Four Chinese New Yorkers, answering the call for laborers to produce food required by the war effort, cultivate spinach on a farm near Albany, N.Y., May 6, 1943. Left to right: Hon Ying, Chen Ah Sue, Sing Ah Jang, and Wong Ah Sei. All were farmers in their native land.

Police examine debris after an explosion blew one locker apart and damaged three other lockers in New York?s Grand Central Terminal on May 6, 1953. Police said the explosion may have been from a time bomb. Authorities said no one was hurt, although the blast occurred along the ramp from the main to the commuter level of the station while crowds of commuters were on their way home.

Sir Winston Churchill and President Eisenhower use the Chief Executive's electric car for a tour of the Eisenhower farm here on May 6, 1959 in Gettysburg, Pa. The President and Churchill flew here from the White House by helicopter.

Fred Astaire and Dinah Shore embrace as they hold their Emmy statuettes at the annual Emmy Awards in Hollywood, Ca., May 6, 1959. Astaire won for his show "An Evening With Fred Astaire." Shore won best actress in a musical series.

Policemen are leading a group of young black students into a school bus, following their arrest for protesting against racial discrimination, in Birmingham, Ala., on May 6, 1963.

Bertha Gilbert, 22, is led away by police after she tried to enter a segregated lunch counter in Nashville, Tenn., on May 6, 1964. She was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge.

Helmeted anti-riot police charge through a cloud of tear gas during student riots in Paris, France, May 6, 1968.

Firemen pour water onto the top of a collapsed sound stage at Samuel Goldwyn novie studio in Hollywood on May 6, 1974. A series of explosions in one of the studios started the fire.

Bangladeshis on the Urir Island in the Bay of Bengal rush to a landing spot where a helicopter bringing 1000 pounds of bread from Dhaka is about to land, Monday, May 6, 1991. On this island human casualties where low as cyclone shelters are available, but cattle and crop are totally destroyed.

Liberian rebels loyal to Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) run from the front-line carrying a wounded comrade as rival ULIMO soldiers loyal to Roosevelt Johnson pushed them back from the Barclay Training Center in downtown Monrovia Monday, May 6, 1996. Fighting continued in the Liberian capital into the afternoon past a noon cease-fire called by warlords, prompting US Marines to fire at rebels battling in the streets near the US embassy.

Zairian villagers watch as Hutu refugees are evacuated by train from the Biaro refugee camp south of Kisangani Tuesday, May 6, 1997. Tuesday the train evacuations began anew following Sunday's overcrowding accident in which 91 refugees were killed.

An unidentified woman is helped through floodwaters by Civil Defense volunteers after she left her home which was destroyed by rains attributed to El Nino, in Ecuador's Manabi province, approximatly 124 miles north of Guayaquil, Wednesday May 6, 1998. According to Ecuadorean officials flooding and heavy rains attributed to the El Nino weather phenomenon have caused the over 200 deaths and left over 30,000 people homeless. .

Apple Computers Inc. interim chief executive Steve Jobs unveils the the new iMac computer in Cupertino, Calif., Wednesday, May 6, 1998. The price of the new consumer model iMac is $1,299 and will be available in August.

The hand of a young ethnic Albanian refugee from Kosovo grips the barbed wire fence at a refugee camp near Kukes Thursday, May 6, 1999. Authorities are trying to move refugees from camps in northern Albania to other locations in the country, citing security concerns.