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Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his Antarctica expedition companions receive a heroes' welcome and a ticker-tape parade June 18, 1930, in New York Ci...

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt addresses 3,000 undergraduates at City College December 1942, in New York City. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

(3/17/1934)First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt returns from a tour of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and is met at Washington's Union Station by Presiden...

(6/17/1994) Surrounded by teammates, New York Rangers Captain Mark Messier lifts the Stanley Cup during the ticker-tape parade June 17, 1994, celebrat...

A car on cables drives 120 feet across the Pudding River near Barlow, OR., on July 12, 1932. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

Paris' Eiffel Tower in 1932. The tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889, and stood as the world's tallest structure until 1930, with the arrival of N...

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspect US airborne troops on a visit to a station of the Ninth Air Force in En...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt hunting opposums in 1930. FDR was re-elected as New York's governor in 1930. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

Workers with paint in hand make their way to the area of the Brooklyn Bridge needing work in 1926. The bridge officially opened May 24, 1883, and is t...

Englishman Roger Bannister crosses the finish line while breaking the four-minute mile barrier on May 6, 1954, on a track at Oxford. (The New York Tim...

Trains leaving the train yard in 1932. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

A World War I American trooper in France in 1917. The first US contingents arrived on French soil in June 1917. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

A crowd of 75,000 watched boxer Jack Dempsey knock out Frenchman Georges Carpentier July 2, 1921, in Jersey City, NJ. The match was over in four round...

The world's most famous magician, Harry Houdini, exposes methods of life-after-death trickery in a 1925 demonstration. Magicians, such as Houdini, exp...

New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig at spring training in 1932. On June 3, 1932, Gehrig hit four home runs in a single game becoming the first American...

The USS Akron flies over New York in 1931, the same year it was completed in the largest hangar in the world in Akron, Ohio. The Akron was built under...

Car racing, 1932. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

A sailor helps a woman cross the slippery icy street in New York's Times Square, 1944. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

11/28/1966 Published date: 11/29/1966 Caption: Truman Capote said he paid 39 cents at F.A.O. Schwarz for black Halloween mask. He had a whole suppl...

New York City officials turn on the first sprinkler system installed in Central Park's Sheep Meadow in 1928. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

Firefighters flee from the collapsing walls of a burning building in the Bronx, 1961. (The New York Times Photo Archives)

On Oct 24, 1929, panic-stricken crowds milled around the New York Stock Exchange building when the market crashed. Thousands throughout the nation los...

Christmas lights at the Santa Claus main post office at the Arctic Circle. KAISA SIREN / LEHTIKUVA/ PROPERTY RELEASED. *** FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY...

Iron workers pose with their harmonicas during lunch hour 22 stories up on the beams of the Murray Hill Building in New York City in 1925. (The New Yo...

Birgit Nilsson in Puccini's "Turandot," at the Metropolitan Opera House, Feb. 1961. Photo credit: Sam Falk/The New York Times

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Unimedia Images / Rex Features (2011384a) Woody Allen Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band in concert at the Arcimbo...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Unimedia Images / Rex Features (2011384b) Woody Allen Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band in concert at the Arcimbo...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Unimedia Images / Rex Features (2011384c) Woody Allen Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band in concert at the Arcimbo...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Unimedia Images / Rex Features (2011384d) Simon Wettenhall, Woody Allen, Eddy Davis and Cynthia Sayer Woody Allen and his...

4/7/80 New York, NY - Aerial view of the Brooklyn Bridge with commuters walking during the transit strike of 1980. credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York...

Black Eyed Peas Fergie Konzert am 13.12.2005 in Hamburg, Alsterdorfer Sporthalle Credit: SCHIFFLER_Jazz archiv/ DALLE

Traditional Indian wrestlers work out at a shrine along the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, May 2005. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

GUILLEMOTS at 93 FEET EAST LONDON- 28/11/2005 Photograph by: AKIN FALOPE / LIVEPIX/DALLE

Konzert: Oasis live in Hamburg am 20.10.2005 in der Alsterdorfer Sporthalle. S??nger Liam Gallagher credit: I_schiffler - Jazz ARCHIV /DALLE

John Lindsay goes on a campaign walking tour in the neighborhood of St. Nicolas Avenue and 145th Street, greeting people of the area in this June 7, 1...

Ingrid Pitt in Minotaur (2006) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt & Rutger Hauer in Minotaur (2006) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt in The Wicker Man (1974) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt in Underworld (1985) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Kate O'Mara & Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers (1970) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers (1970) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Richard Burton & Ingrid Pitt in Where Eagles Dare (1968) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

POSTER in Who Dares Wins (1983) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt in Wild Geese II (1985) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid & Stefanie Pitt at the gym *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt, Caroline Munro & Veronica Carlson *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt in Countess Dracula (1971) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt & Peter Cushing in The House That Dripped Blood (1971) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt & Peter Cushing *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures

Ingrid Pitt & Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare (1968) *Filmstill - Editorial Use Only* CAP/NFS Supplied by Capital Pictures