AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

The now-deserted Mulberry Grove plantation near Savannah, GA, where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, is the site for this marker, which was unveil...

Hank Greenberg, Detroit outfielder who's the pride of the Bronx, digs in for a second inning sprint from second to third but he's trapped, with Eddie...

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, with an acetylene torch, starts to burn first steel on spur of the Ninth Avenue

Benjamin

kHAMBURG, Aug 2,1940 - This is the harbor at Hamburg, Germany, which British sources claim has been almost entirely ruined as a result of British air...

The Municipal Aqueduct Barranquilla in Colombia, July 19, 1940. (AP Photo)

The Municipal Aqueduct Barranquilla in Colombia, July 19, 1940. (AP Photo)

The Ninth Avenue

American relief money flowing into China makes possible schools such as this one in war-torn Shanghai here children of rickshaw pullers are given an e...

Ambulance driver Robert Montgomery gets map reading instruction from volunteer war veteran in Paris, France, June 24, 1940. Movie star Robert Montgo...

German armoured tank in France crossing the Aisne River during World War II, June 21, 1940. (AP Photo)

Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands plays with her two children, Princess Irene, on swing, and Princess Beatrix, at the Seigniory Club in Monteb...

Louis Uhlemann, a Great Neck, N.Y., baker, placed a sign across his window June 13, 1940 declaring he is a loyal American. The sign tells the story. (...

Eugene Talmadge announces he will run for a third term as Georgia's governor (though not consecutive), June 12, 1940. At right, bearded man is profes...

With a short ceremony in Rotterdam on June 3, 1940, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands opened the giant building - biggest in Western Europe - to house...

A column of German motor-cycle troops pass through improvised street barricades as they advance into Luxembourg, May, 21, 1940. (AP Photo)

German troops cross a pontoon bridge of rubber boats as they advance into Luxembourg, May 21, 1940. (AP Photo)

German troops walk down a deserted street in Luxembourg, May 21, 1940, with rifles, pistol and grenade ready to protect themselves. (AP Photo)

A farmer and his family, determined to leave nothing of value for the German invaders, flee into France from their home in Luxembourg, May 20, 1940, w...

Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, tries a new pastime at his Greenwood Lake, NY, camp March 19, 1940, where he is training for his bout with Johnny Paych...

Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxemburg, left, and her husband, Prince de Bourbon-Parma, right, after they arrived at a refuge in France,May 13, 1940, af...

The ruins of Cloth Hall at Ypres, Belgium after the First World War is shown in this undated photo. Ypres a small Flemish town, just over the border...

This is a view of the mountain fortifications that have been constructed at Hong Kong--Great Britains

Over the steep winding trails of Puerto Rico's mountains go Jibaros hill men and their burros to the coffee marts in San Juan, Puerto Rico on April 13...

Heavyweight boxer Johnny Paychek, of Des Moines, Iowa, went down for the count of nine in the first round of his fight with champion Joe Louis at Mad...

With Johnny Paychek lying on his back for the knockout count of 10, champion Joe Louis walks calmly to his corner after 44 seconds of work in the seco...

Heavyweight boxer Johnny Paychek, of Des Moines, is on his way to the mat--and for the knockout count of 10--after a right hand smash from champion J...

A docile horse wears a gas mask, as a precaution against gas attacks, that was developed by

Joe Louis is shown in his dressing room after his knockout of Johnny Paychek of Des Moines,Iowa, at Madison Square Garden, New York, March 24, 1940....

Portrait of Glenn Miller, the famous band leader, March 10, 1940. (AP Photo)

The Ninth Avenue

The Ninth Avenue

Sculpture of James Madison, American politician and fourth President of the United States (1809-1817) by Browere Feb. 21, 1940. (AP Photo)

Challenger Al McCoy went down on one knee, but came up without talking a count after Joe Louis landed a right to the jaw and three rights to the body...

Pope Pius XII chats with George Lenaitre, Belgian mathematician at the inauguration of the fourth year of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at Vatica...

Dr. Serge Voronoff, a French surgeon who startled the world with his monkey glad

A fleet of light machines, officially described as Bren Gun Carriers, are unloaded on the waterfront and immediately taken over by the British Army to...

Golfer John Montague is seen in action, May 1940. (AP Photo)

Former New York Yankees Lou Gehrig, the

This is New York City's new $525,000 enclosed store complex, Essex Street Retail Market, which will open its doors to house 530 of Gotham's itinerant...

Maj. Bob Neyland, head football coach of the University of Tennessee, is seen, Nov. 14, 1939. (AP Photo)

Duty British soldiers clean their rifles and gear in Hong Kong, October 29, 1939. Soldiers while away the time with a game of Mah-Jongg. (AP Photo)

Several hundred people crowd into the offices of the Georgia Works Projects Administration in Atlanta, Ga., in a mass appeal to administrator Gay B. S...

Bob Pastor is counted out by referee Sam Hennessey at 38 seconds after the beginning of the 11th round of his championship bout with the Heavyweight...

Joe Louis stands over Bob Pastor after a knock down in the second round at the World Heavyweight Championship in Detroit on September 20, 1939. At r...

British troops cheerfully entrain for the first stage of their trip to the western front, somewhere in England, Sept. 20, 1939. (AP Photo/Putnam)

British troops cheerfully entrain for the first stage of their trip to the western front, in England, Sept. 20, 1939. (AP Photo/Putnam)

The Non-Agression Pact between Germany and Soviet-Russia was signed by both foreign ministers of the countries in Moscow August 23, 1939. Stalin atten...

Leaders of the

This is a view from the observation deck of the Empire State Building of Herald Square below, including 34th Street, left, intersecting with Broadway,...