Nixon
FILE - In this Dec. 23, 1971 file photo, President Richard Nixon addresses a gathering in the White House State Dining Room after signing the National Cancer Act, a $1.6 billion federal crusade to find a cure for cancer. Behind the president, from left to right: Rep. Paul Rogers, D-Fla. (in front of flag); Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.; and Rep. William L. Springer, R-Ill. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo)
Penn Station 1955
Pennsylvania Station is packed with travelers, going home for Christmas, Dec. 23, 1955, New York. Most of them are waiting to buy their tickets, seeking train information, or lingering until their train pulls in for loading. (AP Photo/John Lindsay)
Hemingway Lewis
Authors Ernest Hemingway, left, and Sinclair Lewis shake hands before sailing aboard the steamship Cuba for Havana from Key West, Fla., Dec. 23, 1940. (AP Photo)
John Steinbeck Funeral
Memorial service for Nobel-winning novelist John Steinbeck, at St. James Episcopal Church at 865 Madison Ave., New York, Dec. 23, 1968. Friends and relatives of John Steinbeck carry his coffin to car. (AP Photo)
Survivors of the Uruguayan plane crash in hospital
Survivors of the Uruguayan plane that crashed in the Andes 2 months ago, have soft drinks as they sit in a Santiago hospital Saturday, Dec. 23, 1972, after a helicopter brought them from the accident side high in the Andes mountains directly to Santiago. Some wear medical aprons. (AP-Photo)
Cuba: Anti-Castro
Cuban invasion prisoner Edgardo Buttari Jr., 18, is welcomed in Miami by his mother, sisters, Ingrid and Astrid, who waited all day for his return from Cuba at Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium on Dec. 23, 1962. Prisoners were greeted with tears kisses and embraces in wild reunion scene. (AP Photo)
Sugamo Prison
Cpl. Thomas L. Dawd, left, of Buffalo, New York, and Capt. Jack E. McShan, right, of Houston, Texas, are on guard in this long cell block in Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Dec. 23, 1945, where Japanese war prisoners are held awaiting trial as war criminals. (AP Photo/Jim Wells)
Berlin Wall Celebration
Young East Berliners shout for joy as they run into West Berlin through an opening in the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, Fri., Dec. 23, 1989. The new East German government had promised to fully open the gate by Christmas. (AP Photo/Hansjoerg Krauss)
Mexico Chiapas Rebellion 1994
A Mexican peasant funeral procession slowly winds down the road form Simojovel to Larrainzar, Mexico, Dec. 23, 1994. A Zapatista rebel roadblock on the road is turning back all traffic, but the funeral was allowed to pass. The area is where the army and the Zapatista rebels are playing a cat and mouse game since Monday's rebel troop's mobilization. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)
Prince Andrew, Princess Sarah, Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena
Britain’s Duke and Duchess of York with their second daughter Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena who was christened on Sunday, Dec. 23, 1990 at the Church of St. Mary Magdelen at Sandringham in England. The Princess who is 9 months old is the first member of the Royal Family to be baptized at a public service. (AP Photo/Gill Allen)
Margaret Thatcher
Britain?s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher talks with soldiers of the Ulster Defense Regiment, during a visit to Girdwood Barracks in Belfast, Ireland on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1986. Thatcher made an unannounced pre Christmas visit to Britain?s troubled province. (AP Photo)