World Trade Center (Twin Towers) in New York City, taken from water level May 15, 1975. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm) (Ron Frehm)
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World Trade Center (Twin Towers) in New York City, taken from water level May 15, 1975. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm) (Ron Frehm)The newly unveiled Nintendo 64 video, the world’s first true 64-bit home video game, is displayed during a news conference Wednesday, May 15, 1996, in Los Angeles. The introduction of the Nintendo system will be a big event as developers and marketers gather in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Nintendo 64 will be available for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $249.95. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) (KEVORK DJANSEZIAN)Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein listens as his charges are read by Chief Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman during his trial in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, Monday May 15, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. The chief judge formally charged Saddam Hussein on Monday with murder, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 people in a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s, bringing the trial of the ousted Iraqi leader into a new phase. (AP Photo/ Marco Di Lauro, Pool) (MARCO DI LAURO)Same sex marriage plaintiff’s Stuart Gaffney, left, and his partner John Lewis, second from left, with Myra Beals, second from right, and her partner Ida Matson, right, hold a California flag after hearing the court decision on same sex marriages outside the court house in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, May 15, 2008. In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation’s biggest state to tie the knot. (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar) (Tony Avelar)Sam Snead, of W. Va., jumps over a hedge for good luck at the club house after leading in the second round in the Metropolitan Open in Bloomfield, N.J., May 15, 1937. (AP Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)This picture shows an Atlas rocket lifting astronaut Gordon Cooper and his Faith 7 spacecraft into orbit from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 15, 1963, for the intended marathon space journey. (AP photo/Nasa) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)Authorities unload cases of whiskey crates labeled as green tomatoes from a refrigerator car in the Washington yards on May 15, 1929. The grower’s express cargo train was en route from Holandale, Fla., to Newark, N.J. (AP Photo) (AP)Evangelist Billy Graham preaches during his New York crusade in Madison Square Garden, May 15, 1957. (AP Photo) (AP)Puffy, elected by the American Feline Society as “King of All Cats”, is shown on his throne autographing his picture for bond buyers in the 7th War Loan Drive, May 15, 1945, at the Zanzibar Cafe in New York. With Puffy are bond buyer Jack Naples, top left; bond saleswoman Rose Horowitz, seated; and waiting her turn to buy a bond is Ruth Rhine. (AP Photo/Ed Ford) (ED FORD)Florence film productions (Florence, Italy) at work on filming of a movie May 15,1946 to be called "Paisa," (Meaning countryman, as with the Mexican "Pizon"). The movie is being directed by Roberto Rossollini, director of "the open city," now a big hit in the U.S.A. It is backed by American and Italian money, being made for distribution primarily in the Italian and American Markets, and tells the story of American-Italian relations during various phases of the Italian campaign. In the cast are both American and Italian actors.Director Roberto Rossollini sits on a camera platform with his two sons, Marco, 4, seated, and Renzo, 8, standing. (AP Photo) (AP)Bill Gaure, maintenance worker on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, nears the top of the north tower after nearly a half-mile uphill hike from the center of the span, May 15, 1952. In the background at center, is a residential area of San Francisco, and at upper left is part of the Presidio. The bridge was built right where the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay meet. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett) (ERNEST K. BENNETT)Irish author James Joyce looks over notes, May 15, 1931. (AP Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)Motorist Irving Gilbert squeezes every drop he can from the gas pump at a station in New York, May 15, 1942, the first day of gas rationing on the eastern seaboard. Serviceman James McPartland is at right. His station and many others quickly exhausted their supplies of gas. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin) (Robert Kradin)Members of the British Royal Family in this radiophoto on May 15, 1937 in London. From left to right: the princess Royal, the Duchess and Duke of Gloucester, Queen Mary, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Princess Maud of Norway, the third daughter of King Edward VII of Great Britain. In the front are the Princess Margaret Rose and Elizabeth, Daughters of the King and Queen. (AP Photo) (AP)Allie Stolz, New Jersey lightweight contender, blocks, left, a fast right by lightweight champ Sammy Angott in Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 15, 1942. Angott won a 15-round decision. (AP Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. has a laugh at the restaurant Pigalie in London, May 15, 1960. Davis arrived in London to open his act at Pigalie. (AP Photo/Bob Dear) (Bob Dear)Members of the British pop group The Beatles, John Lennon, left,and Paul McCartney, announce that Beatles Ltd., is being reorganized for bigger things as Apple Corps Ltd., in New York, NY, May 15, 1968. The new company, owned equally by all four Beatles, will make films, produce records and own clothing stores in London. (AP Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)Ray Sanderson, left, and Clarence Hopft, near the scene where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was found, midway between the Lindbergh estate and Mount Rose, N.J., compare footprints with shoes they reported finding near there, May 15, 1932. Officials were investigating the finding. (AP Photo) (AP)Giuseppina, foreground, and Santina Foglia, the conjoined twins who were separated in a five-hour operation in Turin, Italy on May 10, are visited by their mother, Elide, May 15, 1965. The two girls were taken out from oxygen tents in the hospital in Turin on May 15. (AP Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)A chain of people fleeing a fire descends a ladder fire escape as smoke pours from the upper windows of the four-story building on the north side of Chicago, May 15, 1958. Man opposite third story window carries a child. Thirty residents of the building fled and one woman was injured. (AP Photo/Bernard Block) (Bernard Block)With the camels parked around them, these Bedouin Arabs get set for a long bargaining session for the sale or purchase of the animals, May 15, 1957. Thursday is the big market day at Beersheba, Israel. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle) (Jim Pringle)A bus bearing Freedom Riders leaves the station as they resumed their rides through the South testing integration following the Supreme Court ruling in Boynton v. Virginia, May 15, 1961, Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo) (Anonymous)Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper walks in his Mercury spacesuit (Navy Mark IV) prior to the launch of his spacecraft Faith 7, on May 15, 1963 at Cap Canaveral, Florida, United States. (AP Photo) (AP)Pope John Paul II waves to a crowd estimated at more than 1 1.5 million people on his arrival for a mass on May 15, 1988 at Campo San Miguel, a surburb of Lima. Security was extremely heavy at the mass location because police found bombs nearby earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Bill Haber) (Bill Haber)Against a background of rock formation a British bomber takes off here on May 15, 1941, from airdrome in East Africa, leaving behind a trail of smoke and sand. (AP Photo) (AP)Thomas Payne, left, president of ITT Information Systems Division, and Jack Guilfoyle show off the new ITT Xtra Personal Computer at a news conference in New York, May 15, 1984. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis) (Suzanne Vlamis)A medic offers a seriously wounded friend a cigarette as he waits for medical evacuation following a North Vietnamese ambush while sweeping through heavy jungle west of Dau Tieng, 40 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam, May 15, 1969. The armored unit was hit late in the day after sweeping an area hit by B-52 strikes earlier. Two armored companies were hit by an estimated battalion of NVA hidden in well-fortified bunkers. (AP Photo/Oliver Noonan) (Oliver Noonan)Frank N. Piasecki, President of the P-V Engineering Forum, is at the controls of this new helicopter displayed at Philadelphia almost stationary on May 15, 1944, it can fly 95 miles per hour and land in a 50-foot square area. (AP Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)Tuten Tsuchin, a 70-year-old abbot of the Dalai Lama?s staff at the Potala Palace in Lhasa, poses with a young Tibetan boy at Misamari, the Tibetan refugee camp in Assam, India, May 15, 1959. Asked why the Chinese were bombing and shooting in Lhasa, he said ?they were doing it through wantonness?. (AP Photo) (AP)Dr. Albert Einstein, right, before his address to the American Scientific Congress in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 1940, with Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of the Bureau of Standards. Einstein indicated that the supposedly exact science of physics is in about as chaotic condition as the countries of Europe. He told the American Scientific Congress that physicists, “have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics which can be regarded as its logical foundation.” (AP Photo/George R. Skadding) (George R. Skadding)
