AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Three trans-Atlantic flyers were the guests of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, and Eleanor Roosevelt at the Roosevelt estate when the Flying...

Fritz Kreisler, Feb. 2, 1933 on his 58th birthday. (AP Photo)

Mildred Didrikson, Dallas, Texas winner of the Javelin Throw, came back with her second world record performance in the Olympics on August 3, 1932 by...

Noted Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, is shown standing beside the red and gold monoplane which she brought down to become the first women to ever complete a...

As theater-goers and other visitors enjoy nightlife on New York's Times Square in 1932, hundreds of people line up in the cold for a sandwich and coff...

Yale???s football eleven, winner over Holy Cross by a 6 to 0 score, and Brown, winner over Dartmouth by the Judge???s decision, clashed in the final b...

The second period of the game opened with a rush with Dartmouth carrying the ball down the field to the 25-yard line where the good toe of Morton put...

Shown in photo is the planes radio operator reports the sighted convoy to the ground station shown Sept. 25, 1951 (AP Photo)

Emperor Hirohito, left in carriage, is shown during a martial display for Kang Tau, the state guest of the Emperor, on the outskirts of Tokyo, April 2...

E.E. Loomis (left) President of the Lehigh Railroad and George F. Baker, 90 year old New York Banker when they New York for Jekyl Island, Georgia for...

Booth of Yale scoring with a drop kick a after five minutes of play at the Palmer Stadium on Nov. 15, 1930. (AP Photo)

Professor Albert Einstein at the microphone, congratulates Thomas Edison on the 50 years anniversary of the first electric lamp, by telephone from Be...

Booth gains fifteen yards for Yale. Yale crushes brown at New Heaven 21 to 0 on Oct. 18, 1930 . (AP Photo)

Aerial view of the construction of the Empire State Building, New York, on Oct. 14, 1930, which has reached 88 storeys. (AP Photo)

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Roundabouts and stalls fill the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon during the festivities of annual Mop Fair, on Oct. 13, 1930. (AP Photo)

The wreckage of the Airship R.101, at Allones, France, on Oct. 6, 1930. The airship crashed on its maiden overseas voyage killing 48 people. (AP Photo...

Soldiers stand in vigil around the long line of flag-drapped coffins of R.101 airship disaster victims at Westminster Hall, London, on Oct. 10, 1930....

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French troops and Spahi Algerian Cavalry, outside the Town Hall at Beauvais, on Oct, 7, 1930, prepare to leave for Boulogne, escorting the coffins of...

King Christian X of Denmark discussing moves with his officers, somewhere ion Denmark, on Oct. 7, 1930, during the annual manoeuvres. (AP Photo)

West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt adjusts his tie in Bonn as he faces cameras at TV discussion prior to the West German federal elections with par...

William Stevens, a suspect in the Halls-Mills murder case is shown Jan. 21, 1930. (AP Photo)

Shown in photo are head and shoulder shots of Glenn Curtiss shown in 1930. Glenn Curtiss, who made first take off from deck of a ship-the cruiser Birm...

Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, the ??sChristian General??? and leader of the Kuominchun forces, who has recently been in open revolt in the Hunan Province ag...

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, right and Glenn H. Curtiss, left, discuss the 7,000 mile south Am. Journey at pan Am. Airway field in Miami on Sept. 22, 19...

Chicago Cubs pitchers from left to right: Nehf, Blake, Carlson, Bush, Root and Cvengros, August 19, 1929. (AP Photo)

Madame and President Chiang Kai-Shek are shown reviewing troops in 1929. (AP Photo)

Dazzy Vance of the Brooklyn Dodgers warming up before the game, April 23, 1929. (AP Photo)

Some 10,000 of the 48,000 Palestine Arab Refugees who have settled in and around Damascus, Syria, staged a demonstration in Damascus, last week in Apr...

Dr. Voronoff, popularly known as the rejuvenation expert, is seen at work in his laboratory in Menton on the French Riviera in March, 1929. (AP Photo)

Winston Churchill, the chancellor of the Exchequer, is seen painting in a white coat along the French Riviera where he is away resting for a few days,...

Queen Marie of Romania sits with her nephew Grand Duke Vladimir at the Villa Arnigode at St. Briac in Brittany, France on Feb. 1, 1929. Queen Marie is...

Queen Marie of Romania walks around the Villa Arnigode at St. Briac in Brittany, France on Feb. 1, 1929. Queen Marie is in France visiting her exiled...

Queen Marie of Romania stands with her nephew Grand Duke Vladimir at the Villa Arnigode at St. Briac in Brittany, France on Feb. 1, 1929. Queen Marie...

American actor and singer Al Jolson with his wife Ruby after their arrival at Cherbourg Harbour, France, on Aug. 29, 1928. (AP Photo)

Lord of the fairways Byron Nelson, Toledo, O., is besieged by autograph seekers after he posted a four-under-par 68 in the $60,000 All-American Golf T...

Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, poses with her co pilots Wilmer Stultz, left, and Louis Gordon, right at the Union Station...

Britain's Queen Mary is welcomed at the Queen Mary's Hospital, in the east end of London, on May 11, 1928, where she opened a new wing of the hospital...

Despite the fact that his rib was broken when he was knocked down by a hit and run driver just outside of Chicago, Olli Wanttinen, 96-pound New Yorker...

Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators is shown, July 1927. (AP Photo)

British Heavyweight boxer Phil Scott in England, on June 1, 1927. (AP Photo)

Frances Noel Stevens Hall, who has involved in the Hall-Mills murder case, smiles as she foresees acquittal verdict, Dec. 2, 1926. (AP Photo)

Willie Stevens is shown on witness stand during the trial in which he is jointly accused with his sister of the murder of Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs...

A group photograph of the N.Y. Yankees, winners of the American League Pennant who played the St. Louis Cardinals in New York on Sept. 27, 1926. (AP P...

Frances Stevens Hall is shown in this 1926 photo. Man at left is unidentified. (AP Photo)

Frances S. Hall, who when arrested refused to make any statement until she is informed on what evidence her arrest was based, is shown July 29, 1926....

The famous Hall-Mills murder case has again come into the limelight after four years when Mrs. Francis Stevens Hall, widow of the Reverend Edward W. H...

Arthur ??sDazzy??? Vance, Star Brooklyn ??sDodger??? Pitcher, July 29, 1924. (AP Photo)

This is an aerial view of the River Rouge Ford Motor Company factory in Dearborn, Mich., shown Dec. 28, 1922. (AP Photo)