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This photo shows the Queensboro, 59th Street, Bridge from the Queens side of the East River and the Manhattan skyline, in background, on Dec. 4, 1957. The tall structure at left is the United Nations Secretariat. The season's first snowfall brought 7.3 inches. (AP Photo/Mathew Zimmerman)
Prohibition Repeal 1933
Miss Bunny Swanson (left) impersonating the Spirit of Repeal, assisting happy art student “mourners” in stowing away an effigy of prohibition during a ceremony at the Art Students League Building in New York on Dec. 4, 1933. A processional trip along Fifth Avenue, will follow, when the “remains” will be escorted to the ballroom of a New York hotel, to lie in state during the League Repeal Ball and Revel on December 5. (AP Photo)
IRA Hunger Strike 1981
David Sharp and Michele Bonnechere, left, members of the committee to support the Irish prisoners in hunger strike to ask the statute of political prisoners, hold a press conference in Paris on Dec. 4, 1980. (AP Photo/Spartaco Bodini)
Frank Borman, James Lovell
Astronaut Frank Borman, left, with astronaut James Lovell, right, as they move into their space capsule for lift off of Gemini 7, 14 day flight on Dec. 4, 1965. (AP Photo)
Archeological Objects
Pictured here are valuable archeological objects found by a family on the outskirts of Rome, Italy, Dec. 4, 1969 at their home. (AP Photo)
Thomas Edison
Thomas A. Edison presses the button in West Orange, N.J., which turns on the street lights of Seattle, Washington, Dec. 4, 1928. (AP Photo)
Allen Ginsberg
Poet Allen Ginsberg holds a flower and waves from his hospital bed in Albany, New York Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1968. Ginsberg, 42, received a broken hip and cracked ribs in an automobile accident while driving from the Albany airport to his farm in the Catskills. He expects to be in traction for several more weeks. (AP Photo/Steve Starr)
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie, who's hit vocal "All Night Long" brought to a close on Dec. 4, 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, is joined by a group of young dancers taping in Burbank of an upcoming television commercial for Pepsi. (AP Photo/Liu Heung-Shing)
Roosevelt Lehman
Pres. Roosevelt shakes hands with former Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, right, in the executive office of the White House, Dec. 4, 1942, congratulating him after witnessing Lehman's swearing-in as director of foreign relief and rehabilitation operations. Lehman's wife, Edith Altschul Lehman, looks on. (AP Photo)
Social Security 1936
This is a view of the mail-receiving room of Social Security board office, with thousands of applications pouring in daily from postmasters throughout country, seen Dec. 4, 1936. Piles are separated regionally. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)
Atop the Empire State Building
Sightseers atop the Empire State Building observation deck view the New York Area, Dec 4, 1947. An anti-suicide fence partially obscures their view. ( AP Photo/Harry Harris)