AP PhotoHarry Houdini, handcuffed, and with his feet bound in chains, dives into pool at Los Angeles, May 7, 1923.
AP PhotoThe biplane The White Bird in which Captain Charles Nungesser and Captain Francois Coli, the French transatlantic fliers, hope to fly from Paris to New York soon on May 7, 1927. According to the latest reports the great white plane is all ready for the flight and the aviators are only waiting on the weather to start.
AP PhotoUnited States President Calvin Coolidge throws the first ball before the start of a baseball game May 7, 1928. Location unknown.
AP PhotoAmerican boxer Al Brown training with a punch bag at the National Sporting Club in London, England on May. 7, 1931 in readiness for his forthcoming fight with Teddy Baldock, unseen. The club had recently lifted its ban on black people using the facilities.
Staff/Puttnam, The Associated PressIrish writer George Bernard Shaw walking down the Duke of York Steps in Pall Mall, London, during his daily constitutional on May 7, 1933.
AP PhotoPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown at his desk at the White House, May 7, 1933, when he outlined his ideas to the nation on a partnership between the government and agriculture, industry, and transportation. He announced measures to be proposed soon to give industrial workers a better deal.
AP PhotoFamily of nine living in open field in rough board covering built on old Ford truck chassis on U.S. Route 70, between Bruceton and Camden, Tennessee, near Tennessee River on May 7, 1936. Their water supply is an open creek running near the highway.
AP PhotoJoe DiMaggio, outfielder of the New York Yankees, and Rudy York of the Detroit Tigers are seen, May 7, 1938, in New York.
AP PhotoA Group of children gathers at the Rivesaltes camp for internees in France on May 7, 1941.
AP PhotoNorma Ellen Kristoff, the first of the women at the big defense plant to join the flying club poses with a propeller plane in Hobart, Indiana, May 7, 1942. She is employed as a secretary in the companys office.
AP PhotoThese thirteen Pine County farmers, all charged with evading the draft, appeared in federal court in Duluth, Minn. for sentencing on May 7, 1942. They are left to right, first row: Walter Josewsky, 51, sentence postponed to June 6; David Pangerl, 42, Louis Patzoldt, 40, George W. Marquardt, 33, Elmer Patzoldt, 33 and Arnold Patzoldt, 35, each sentence ----- two years. Second row, left to right: Josenh, Marquardt, 21, sentenced 15 months. Paul Marquardt, 59, leader of the group, sentence postponed to June 6; Karl Marquardt, 33, Robert Marquardt, 32, Archie Soderbeck, 28 and Delford Chapin, 22, each two years and Louis Pangerl, 51, sentence postponed to June 6. All but Chapin are related by blood of marriage ties.
Tom Fitzsimmons, The Associated PressLooking north from 44th Street, New York's Times Square is packed Monday, May 7, 1945, with crowds celebrating the news of Germany's unconditional surrender in World War II.
AP PhotoComedians Stan Laurel, left, and Oliver Hardy are shown in a scene from the movie "A-Haunting We Will Go" in Los Angeles, Ca. on May 7, 1942. At right is Harry A. Jansen as Dante the Magician.
AP PhotoBing Crosby (second from right) visits the Longchamps race track in Paris, France on May 7, 1950. His companions are left to right: The Countess de Segonzac, Marilyn Gerson, and, right, Count Louis Edouard de Segonzac.
AP PhotoAn unidentified Black woman struggles with a policeman after she failed to move on during Black protest marches, May 7, 1963 in Birmingham, Ala.
AP PhotoYoung black protestors are cheering and clapping hands as they stand along a sidewalk in Birmingham, Ala., on May 7, 1963, during anti-segregation demonstrations in the Alabama city.
Eddie Adams, The Associated PressA wounded Marine is comforted upon arriving at this evacuation point at Dai Do, Vietnam on May 7, 1968. The Marine was wounded while attacking the North Vietnamese held village of Dai Do near the DMZ. The artillery-supported North Vietnamese pushed back the Marines.
John Rooney, The Associated PressAbout 20 construction workers carrying American flags confront some 1,000 young anti-war demonstrators before Federal Hall National Memorial building in the heart of New York's financial district, May 7, 1970. A brief scuffle erupted but police separated the two factions and hustled them away from each other without making arrests.
AP PhotoReporters Bob Woodward, right, and Carl Bernstein, whose reporting of the Watergate case won them a Pulitzer Prize, sit in the newsroom of the Washington Post in Washington May 7, 1973.
AP PhotoA large heron flies away as the Space Shuttle Endeavours main engines roar before lifting off at Kennedy Space Center, May 7, 1992.
John Moore, The Associated PressA Zairian boatman rows passengers accross the Zaire River Wednesday, May 7, 1997. Passenger business has boomed for the canoe boatmen, as the only ferry service accross the river has been commandeered by the United Nations for transport of refugees.
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Harry Houdini, handcuffed, and with his feet bound in chains, dives into pool at Los Angeles, May 7, 1923.
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