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Authorities unload cases of whiskey crates labeled as green tomatoes from a refrigerator car in the Washington yards on May 15, 1929. The grower's express cargo train was en route from Holandale, Fla., to Newark, N.J.

Ray Sanderson, left, and Clarence Hopft, near the scene where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was found, midway between the Lindbergh estate and Mount Rose, N.J., compare footprints with shoes they reported finding near there, May 15, 1932. Officials were investigating the finding.

Dr. Albert Einstein, right, before his address to the American Scientific Congress in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 1940, with Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of the Bureau of Standards. Einstein indicated that the supposedly exact science of physics is in about as chaotic condition as the countries of Europe. He told the American Scientific Congress that physicists, 聯have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics which can be regarded as its logical foundation.聰

Against a background of rock formation a British bomber takes off here on May 15, 1941, from airdrome in East Africa, leaving behind a trail of smoke and sand.

Motorist Irving Gilbert squeezes every drop he can from the gas pump at a station in New York, May 15, 1942, the first day of gas rationing on the eastern seaboard. Serviceman James McPartland is at right. His station and many others quickly exhausted their supplies of gas.

A German who fought against the allies at Medjez-El-Bab appears to be in a despondent mood (above) following his capture by allied forces in Tunisia, May 15, 1943.

Students at the Czechoslovakian State School pose on the steps in Whitechurch, England, May 15, 1943, during World War II. The two boys at the front, Dan, playing the accordion, and Dominic, escaped from the Nazis by being smuggled out of Czechoslovakia in trunks.

U.S. soldiers pile huge rolls of wire fence at an army supply depot for the coming invasion of the European continent in England, May 15, 1944. Equipment for invasion use has been piling up at ordnance depots all over England.

Over 2,000 WAAC's take part in a mass calisthenics exercise in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., May 15, 1943. The recruits are instructed by trained physical education teachers in exercises designed to make them physically fit.

General Eisenhower, on a surprise visit to London on May 15, 1945, was mobbed by an enthusiastic crowd of Londoners as he left the Prince of Wales theatre after seeing the show. His car unable to move through the cheering mass, the C-In-C, hatless, acknowledged the ovation and shook hands with many British service and civilians. Standing on the running board of his car, completely hemmed in by the crowd, the C-In-C. Reaches order the bonnet to shake hands with Mrs. Elsie Entwhistle of Blackpool, who was in London on a VE holiday.

Rows of white crosses stretch into the distance in this U.S. military cemetery No. 1 at Ste. Mese Eglise in Normandy, France on May 15, 1946, after peace returned to the area that was the scene of bitter fighting nearly two years ago.

Bill Gaure, maintenance worker on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, nears the top of the north tower after nearly a half-mile uphill hike from the center of the span, May 15, 1952. In the background at center, is a residential area of San Francisco, and at upper left is part of the Presidio. The bridge was built right where the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay meet.

Evangelist Billy Graham preaches during his New York crusade in Madison Square Garden, May 15, 1957.

A chain of people fleeing a fire descends a ladder fire escape as smoke pours from the upper windows of the four-story building on the north side of Chicago, May 15, 1958. Man opposite third story window carries a child. Thirty residents of the building fled and one woman was injured.

Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. has a laugh at the restaurant Pigalie in London, May 15, 1960. Davis arrived in London to open his act at Pigalie.

President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy arrive on May 15, 1961 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland from Palm Beach, Fla., where they spent a four day vacation. The President and his wife leave tomorrow for a three-day official visit to Canada.

A bus bearing Freedom Riders leaves the station as they resumed their rides through the South testing integration following the Supreme Court ruling in Boynton v. Virginia, May 15, 1961, Montgomery, Ala.

A U.S. reception given at the Palm Beach of Cannes, followed the presentation at the Film Festival of ?A raisin in the sun? . One of the actors of the film, U.S. Sidney Poitier thanks the Begum Aga Khanwife of the late Aga Khan) who congratulates him for his role in Cannes on May 15, 1961.

This picture shows an Atlas rocket lifting astronaut Gordon Cooper and his Faith 7 spacecraft into orbit from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 15, 1963, for the intended marathon space journey.

Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali waves as he leaves Kennedy Airport in New York City for Accra, Ghana May 15, 1964. Ali begins an eight-week tour of African and Asian countries. At right is Rahaman Ali, his brother.

Jim Ryun, senior at Wichita High School East, breaks the tape in running one mile in 3 minutes, 58.3 seconds in Kansas High School track meet in Wichita, May 15, 1965.

Santina Foglia, one of the conjoined twin sisters who were separated after a five-hour operation on May 10, is embraced by her mother, Elide, after Santina was taken out of an oxygen tent in the hospital at Turin, Italy, May 15, 1965.

Members of the British pop group The Beatles, John Lennon, left,and Paul McCartney, announce that Beatles Ltd., is being reorganized for bigger things as Apple Corps Ltd., in New York, NY, May 15, 1968. The new company, owned equally by all four Beatles, will make films, produce records and own clothing stores in London.

A medic offers a seriously wounded friend a cigarette as he waits for medical evacuation following a North Vietnamese ambush while sweeping through heavy jungle west of Dau Tieng, 40 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam, May 15, 1969. The armored unit was hit late in the day after sweeping an area hit by B-52 strikes earlier. Two armored companies were hit by an estimated battalion of NVA hidden in well-fortified bunkers.

Fashion model Naomi Sims sits in front of a mirror in New York, May 15, 1970, after announcing her intention to market a line of cosmetics for black women.

Willie Mays, the 42 year old New York Mets' outfielder, sits in a contemplative mood in the team's clubhouse at Shea Stadium May 15, 1973, where he went to pick up his mail.

Miss Piggy and companion Jim Henson pose in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 15, 1989. Henson died on May 16, 1990.

Clouds of smoke pour off burning tankers near Iran's Larak Island on May 15, 1988 after Iraqi jets dropped parachute bombs on the 564,739 tonne tanker "Sea Wise Giant", the Spanish flagged "Barcelona", the Cypriot flagged "Argosy," and the British tanker "Burmah Endeavour." About fifty sea men are reported missing and both the "Sea Wise Giant" and the "Barcelona" where in danger of sinking.

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein listens as his charges are read by Chief Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Monday May 15, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. The chief judge formally charged Saddam Hussein on Monday with murder, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 people in a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s, bringing the trial of the ousted Iraqi leader into a new phase.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell is photographed at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., in this Aug. 18, 1994, file photo Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday, May 15, 2007, shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said. He was 73.

Martin Luther King's daughter Yolanda Denise King answers questions from reporters following a news conference in Maastricht, southern Netherlands, Friday Jan. 19, 2007. King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died May 15, 2007 in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51.