AP Historical Hard Drive 2001

In this photo made available Thursday, June 21, 2001 from Italy's

Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees outfielder, receives a watch from Mayor O.C. Bianchi of Orange, N.J., on Joe DiMaggio Day at Yankee Stadium in New York...

Byron Nelson, of Reading, Pa., smiles as he poses with his trophy cup after winning the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Philadelphia Country Club, Phil...

Byron Nelson is shown in action during the U.S. Open Championship at the Philadelphia Country Club in Philadelphia, Pa., June 11, 1939. Nelson scored...

Byron Nelson tees off in the U.S. Open Championship as opponent Craig Wood watches at the Philadelphia Country Club in Philadelphia, Pa., June 11, 193...

Byron Nelson, of Reading, Pa., drives off the first tee in the playoff of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Spring Mill Golf Course in Philadelphia, Pa...

Autograph hounds in the gallery crowded around Slammin' Sammy Snead after he posted a 71 for his second round in the National Open Golf Championship i...

Actor-dancer Fred Astaire and his wife, Phyllis, arrive on the liner Queen Mary in New York City on June 5, 1939. The couple spent six weeks in Europ...

Gen. Francisco Franco stands on a timber tribune for more than five hours and takes the salute of a quarter million troops during the nationalist vict...

New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy, left, and Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher shake hands before start of game in New York City, April 18, 19...

Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees hits a home run in the second inning of game against the Brooklyn Dodgers as members of the U.S. fleet watch at Nor...

This is a general view of the parade at Wenzels Square in Prague on April 5, 1939. The parade is part of the ceremonies for Konstantin von Neurath as...

This view shows the new Federal Building in Chicago, Ill., on March 21, 1939. (AP Photo)

German infantrymen riding in a convoy of motorcars invade Prague as people line the streets and watch silently in the rain and sleet on March 15, 1939...

Actor Clark Gable and actress Vivien Leigh are shown on the set of

This is a Jan. 27, 1939 photo showing Main Street of Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP Photo)

Ted Williams, 19, is poised with his rifle on a deer hunting trip near San Diego, Ca. on Jan. 17, 1939. (AP Photo)

Pall bearers carry the casket of Jacob Ruppert following funeral services at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, Jan. 16, 1939. Thousands atten...

American author Dorothy Parker is seen with economist Leon Henderson at his home where Parker spoke on behalf of the American Congress for Peace and D...

American novelist and short-story writer Ernest Hemingway is shown at his typewriter as he works on

Judy Garland, as Dorothy in

Actor Henry Fonda is shown in the role of Abraham Lincoln in this 1939 photo. (AP Photo)

Goalie Frankie Brimsek of the Boston Bruins poses before a game in Boston, Ma., on Dec. 20, 1938. (AP Photo)

A Santa Claus on wheels appeared in front of a store in New York City on Dec. 6, 1938. The Santa bares signs urging the boycotting of Nazi Manufactur...

Henry Armstrong, left, defends his welterweight crown in title fight against challenger Ceferino Garcia in New York City on Nov. 25, 1938. The refere...

Headmaster Sims, left, watches as students of Dorset House Preparatory School file into a bomb proof shelter in their first air raid drill in Little H...

American writer Gertrude Stein works at her desk in Paris, France, on Nov. 22, 1938. (AP Photo)

Sam Snead, center, holds first prize of $3,000 in a bushel of nickels at the tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Nov. 10, 1938. Snead fired...

Seabiscuit receives a carrot in his stable from owner Marcela Howard at Pimlico at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 2, 1938. (AP Photo)

Seabiscuit, with jockey George Woolf up, is led by trainer Tom Smith and escorted by police after defeating War Admiral in the match race at Pimlico R...

Jockey George Woolf and Seabiscuit lead jockey Charles Kurtsinger and War Admiral in the first turn in their match race at Pimlico in Baltimore, Md.,...

Seabiscuit, on rail, with jockey George Woolf, leads War Admiral and jockey Charles Kurtsinger, as they round stretch turn for home in the match race...

Seabiscuit and jockey George Woolf lead War Admiral and jockey Charles Kurtsinger in the first turn at the race at Pimlico in Baltimore, Md., on Nov....

Seabiscuit, with jockey George Woolf, leads by four lengths at the finish line in the match race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 1,...

Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees first basemen, scores the first run of the 1938 World Series as he crosses home plate in the second inning of game 1 in C...

The German motorship St. Louis, of the Hapag-Lloyd Line, arrives in New York and immediately makes preparations to return to Hamburg without passenger...

Italian Premier Benito Mussolini, left, jogs with a regiment of Bersaglieri troops along the road after reviewing the Italian troops at Gradisca, Ital...

Country and western singer Chet Atkins plays his guitar in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Sept. 20, 1980. Atkins donated this guitar to the Smithsoni...

German Minister for Propaganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels, left, and British Ambassador to Berlin and Germany Sir Nevile Henderson talk in the grandstand at...

Storm Troopers of the National Socialist Party march in columns through the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, on Sept. 11, 1938, as part of the Nazi cong...

Hitler Youth fanfare blowers are some of the many youth organizations participating in the Nazi Congress gathering in Nuremberg, Germany, on Sept. 11,...

Marilyn Meseke, of Marion, Ohio, is crowned Miss America 1938, center, at the annual National Beauty Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 10, 1938...

Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., is about to make a back hand shot during semifinals with his Greentree team against the Ramblers in the National Open Polo Cham...

Sudeten German refugees wait to board one of the trains at Klingenthal station in Czechoslovakia in Sept. 1938 as agreed in the Munich Pact. The Germ...

Aviator Douglas Corrigan points to the compass on the floor of his single-engine 1929 Curtis Robin monoplane at Roosevelt Field in New York on Aug. 11...

Aviator Douglas Corrigan waves to the crowd during the hero's official homecoming ticker tape celebration given by the city of New York on Aug. 5, 193...

Aviator Douglas Corrigan waves to the crowd as he receives a hero's welcome during an official greeting from the city on the steps of City Hall in New...

This is a front view of a Volkswagen automobile in Germany in Aug. 1938. The people's car, also called

Aviator Douglas Corrigan tells the newsreel in Dublin, Ireland, on July 19, 1938, how he came to land in Dublin instead of in California, U.S.A., when...

American aviator Douglas Corrigan, 31, steps out of his single-engine 1929 Curtis Robin monoplane in Dublin, Ireland, on July 18, 1938, after making h...