AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Yankees' Graig Nettles reaches in vain for ball hit by Royals' Amos Otis in sixth inning of Thursday night's game, at Royals Stadium, Oct. 10, 1980. (...

A weeping South Vietnamese mother and her three children are shown on the deck of this amphibious command ship being plucked out of Saigon by U.S. Mar...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Japanese army is shown, date unknown. (AP Photo)

Famed comedians George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen are shown in 1954 at the Stork Club. (AP Photo)

Lt. Col. G.C. Marshall, seated, center, is shown when he was assistant commandant of the infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga., with his staff, in an u...

Women march in a rally supporting the right for women to vote in elections, 1912. (AP Photo)

Two Marines stand face to face with death in bitter fighting on Tarawa, Dec. 1943. The marine in front, his face a mask of fury, holds a carbine at th...

Mamoru Shigemitsu signs surrender papers for Emperor Hirohito, Aug. 14, 1945. (AP Photo)

The white rings of vapor around the nose of this Grumman Hellcat plane, warming up on the flight deck of a U.S. Navy carrier, result from condensation...

Desolation on Corregidor, including lines of prisoners and bomb-wasted terrain, after the Island fortress in Manila Bay was captured from the U.S. def...

Sally Rand in character during a rehearsal of her Fan Dance for which she is famous. Date unknown. (AP Photo)

China's senior leader Deng Xiaoping talks about China's population problem in Beijing, during a meeting with President of Togo in Beijing, April 8, 1...

Fan Dancer Sally Rand in an undated photo. (AP Photo)

Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's premier is shown Dec. 1988 (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

A young Guardsman shouts during demonstration in a Peking Street, July 1966. Behind him are other guards holding books with Mao Tze-Tung writings. (A...

Students of Peking University have a newspaper read to them after reading the current wall posters, May 1967 in China. The university was closed durin...

Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of Chinese Communist Party, is shown, in September 1982. (AP Photo)

Workers spruce up Beijing's Gate of Heavenly Peace in preparation for the celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the People's Republic of China,...

Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan throws against the Detroit Tigers in Arlington, Texas, July 1990. Ryan was going for his 299th career win. (AP Photo)

Three unidentified asylum seekers shout for help and reach out for an approaching rescue ladder from the roof of a Frankfurt hotel after a fire broke...

U.S. Vice-President George H. Bush shown talking to U.S. troops, November 1983 and looking over captured weapons & anti-aircraft guns taken during the...

George H. Bush speaking, July 1985 in Washington. (AP Photo)

In this photo provided by Eastfoto, Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung is shown at the 7th National Congress of the Communist Party in China, in 19...

Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung stands in a jeep as he reviews troops moving into Peiping, China, Jan. 1949. After taking the city, Mao establis...

Henry Pu Yi, at center wearing glasses, chief executive of Manchukuo state, the world's newest republic in China, is shown with his family and relativ...

Spearmen of the Self-Defense Corps of the Communist Eighth Route Army are shown drilling near Yenan in 1938. (AP Photo)

General Douglas Macarthur and a group of U.S. Army and Philippine officers wade ashore at Leyte Island, October 1944 in the Philippines. (AP Photo)

Chinese automatic riflemen at Marco Polo Bridge hold the Japanese at bay during the Sino-Japanese War, July 1937, with Chinese defenders behind sandba...

Israeli Minister Shimon Peres, right, and New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch shake hands for photographers following a breakfast meeting in New York,...

John F. Kennedy, right, and his PT crew are shown somewhere in the South Pacific, July 1943. (AP Photo)

Britain's Prince Charles talks with Paul Day, the sculptor of the reliefs, whilst Camilla The Duchess of Cornwall looks at them, whilst attending a ce...

Allied forces land at Salerno, Italy, in Sept. 1943. Allies took a gamble by landing without softening up barrage. (AP Photo)

Stanford University tight end Ryan Wetnight (86) runs past Penn State corner back Marlon Forbes (46) during first quarter action at the Blockbuster Bo...

University of Illinois tight end Frank Harley (82) is congratulated by linebacker Julyon Brown (60), Monday, Jan. 1, 1990 after Illinois defeated Virg...

Dragon Valley Hotel is located at the center of Yongpyong, about 200km east of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, Feb. 23, 2009. Yongpyong is Asi...

Dragon Valley Hotel is located at the center of Yongpyong, about 200km east of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, Feb. 23, 2009. Yongpyong is Asi...

Refugees at El Obeid brought victim camp in Western Sudan, March 6, 1985. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

Refugees at El Obeid brought victim camp in Western Sudan, March 6, 1985. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

Children run as U.S. Vice-President George Bush, tours El Obeid brought victim camp in Western Sudan on March 6, 1985. Bush views feeding areas and ki...

Portuguese President Mario Soares and U.S. Vice President George H. Bush, left, speak during visit in 1986. (AP Photo/Fernando Ricardo)

Photo shows left to right: Lord Halifax, the foreign secretary, Mr. Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's personal envoy to Europe, Mr. Chamberlain, th...

Eminent physicist Dr. Albert Einstein is shown in Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 30, 1932 on his arrival to the country to study at the California Institut...

Ivan Matteo Lombardi, resigned Socialist Cabinet member, in exclusive interview with AP staff correspondent Frank Brutto at left, in Rome, Nov. 6, 19...

A barge carrying 3,000 tons of garbage from Islip, N.Y. rests outside New York Harbor in May 1987 near the end of its long journey. The barge, which...

Starting pitcher Jack Morris of the Toronto Blue Jays throws during the first inning in Seattle, Thursday, night, May 1992 against the Mariners. Morri...

Demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Nov.19, 1979 carry stuffed figures depicting President Jimmy Carter, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahla...

Burning an American flag in front of the American Embassy on Nov. 19, 1979 while ten hostages were being released by the Iranian students who took ov...

George H. Bush, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations at the U.N. in 1971. (AP Photo/Jim Wells)

General view of the jumping hills at Pyeongchang Ski Resort, about 200km east of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, Monday, Feb.16. 2009.(AP Phot...

An insurgent stands atop a tank at the Iranian prime minister's office and waves the white surrender flags with an army officer standing beside him, F...