AP Historical Hard Drive 2006

Mayor F.N.Ragsdale, of Atlanta, extending the glad hand to Bobby Jones, monarch of the golfing world, on his return from ascendind to the national ope...

Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi acknowledges the crowd who welcomed him at Bombay Station, India, May 2, 1929. (AP Photo)

The family of evangelist Billy Sunday is seen as they sailed from Los Angeles on the ship Calawaii for a vacation in Hawaii, March 21, 1929. From lef...

American Vice President Charles Curtis, left, presents the Daytona Beach Trophy to Britain's Major Henry Segrave, after he had achieved a new world re...

Formal picture following the wedding of Infanta Isabel Alfonsa of Spain, and Count Zemoisky Jan Kany of Poland, that took place in the Chapel of the...

Professional golfer Bobby Jones. Undated photo.(AP Photo)

Customs and immigration officials inspect a plane at quarantine on the water, place unknown, Aug. 13, 1928. (AP Photo)

Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith, second right, with the men who are to fly with him on the 7,500 mile journey across the Pacific, at Oakland Airfield,...

Australian airman Charles Kingsford-Smith, before he attempted the 7,500 mile flight from America to Australia, June 2, 1928. (AP Photo)

Bremen, a Junkers W33 aircraft that made the first successful Trans-Atlantic plane flight from East to West, takes off from Baldonel Aerodrome, Irelan...

Prince Carl of Sweden, right, and Princess Carl, left, during an official visit to Belgium, Oct. 1927. From left to right; Princess Carl; Queen Elisa...

Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, on a public platform in Bangalore, India, Aug. 29, 1927, for the first time since his illness. (AP Photo)

Britain's Royal Navy submarine H.M.S. Oberon, the first

Britain's 16-year-old tennis player Betty Nuthall playing in the Wightman Cup Contest, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y., Aug. 23, 1927, wh...

Fianna Fail leader Eamon De Valera, right, and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army Frank Aitken, leaving Leinster House, Dublin, Aug. 12, 1927...

The former British owned Bibi Eibat oil wells, Azerbaijan, Aug. 10, 1927, which were confiscated by the Soviet Government at the time of the Revoluti...

The Spanish Royal Family pose for a photo during a visit to Dowager Queen Cristina in the Palace of miramar, San Sebastian, Spain, Aug. 10, 1927. From...

British flier T. Neville Stack, in the cockpit of his plane, at Croydon Airport, London, July 30, 1927. Stack had earlier that year flown from Croydon...

A view of the Potala Palace, main residence of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet, July 20, 1927. (AP Photo)

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American airman Clarence Chamberlain with German airwoman Thea Rasche, on board the liner SS Leviathan, enroute to New York, July 12, 1927. Rasche is...

French tennis player Henri Cochet, right, beat fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra in the Men's Singles final match on the Centre Court, Wimbledon, London,...

Britain's Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his wife Lucy, in Brockville, Canada, July 5, 1927, during their tour of Canada with Prince Edward, Prin...

Britain's Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, right, and Prince George, far left, inspect a guard of honour in Quebec, Canada, July 3, 1927, during a Roya...

American mother of two, Clemington Corson after her Cross Channel swim from France to England, in Dover, England, May 30, 1937, being congratulated b...

American mother of two, Clemington Corson during her Cross Channel swim from France to England, as she nears Dover, May 30, 1937. Corson swam the Chan...

File photo of the Einstein Tower , Potsdam, Germany, March 1, 1927. (AP Photo)

The airship 'Los Angeles' passes the flagpole on the top of the Singer Building, centre left, in New York, on Feb. 5, 1927, during her trip from Lak...

Members of the Roumanian royal family and state officials walk towards the Danube river to attend the annual Orthodox Epiphany service and baptism, J...

Germany's President Paul von Hindenburg out walking during his short holiday in the Bavarian Mountains, in 1927. (AP Photo)

A group of passengers is boarding a Lufthansa Dornier Komet III plane, April 6, 1926, at the Temelhof airport in Berlin, Germany. Lufthansa started it...

Mrs. W. H. Felton, U.S. Senator, May 2, 1925. (AP Photo)

British mountaineers George Mallory is seen with Andrew Irvine at the base camp in Nepal, both members of the Mount Everest expeditions 1922 and 1924,...

Pittsburgh radio station KDKA broadcasts ca. 1920. KDKA is credited with the first radio news report when it broadcast Associated Press election retur...

A Farman-Goliath plane sits in Le Bourget airfield, Feb. 8, 1919, as passengers are loaded for the first commercial flight from Paris to London, pilot...

The first air mail from Chicago is rushed from airplane to truck in New York in Sept. 1918. Pilot Max Miller, who made the flight between the two cit...

The New York Times building at One Times Square in New York is seen decorated with a Victory emblem, 1918. (AP Photo)

Heavyweight championship bout between Jess Willard and Jack Johnson, April 5, 1915, at Havana Cuba. Willard knocked out Johnson in the 26th round (old...

A map of the Marne River, 1914, just before Von Kluck started his retreat on receipt of news that Von Buelow's army was yielding ground, rapidly and t...

Base map of Europe in 1914 before World War I. (AP Photo)

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What is left of a building facade tumbles to the street, following the devastating earthquake that nearly decimated San Francisco, April 18, 1906. (A...

People walk through the rubble following an earthquake in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. On April 17, 1906, San Francisco was cosmopolitan enough to...

The Hibernia Bank building is in ruins following the massive earthquake that devastated the San Francisco area, April 18, 1906. (AP Photo)

A refugee camp is seen near Rock Hill on upper Market Street in San Francisco, following the devastating earthquake that nearly destroyed the city, Ap...

Houses lean at bizarre angles on Howard Street near 17th Street in San Francisco following the disastrous earthquake that nearly leveled the city, Apr...

Refugees of the great San Francisco earthquake stand outside their tents at the Presidio, April 1906. (AP Photo)

A polling place in 1905, location unknown. (AP Photo)

New Zealand's Bob Fitzsimmons, left, and American 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett, in a clinch in the 11th round of their heavyweight championship fight, in C...

79 years old Physics professor Ernst Ruska receives the Nobel Prize for Physics by Sweden's King Karl Gustav, right, during the awarding ceremony in S...