Pacific Southwest Flight 1771 Crash
Workers examine one of the four jet engines of the ill-fated Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner at Cayucos, Calif., Dec. 9, 1987. The jetliner crashed Monday, disintegrating into thousands of small parts, killing all 43 people aboard. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)
France Gendarme Feeds Pigeons
A gendarme wearing a tin hat feeding the pigeons, his sole companions in the deserted square in Strasbourg, on Dec. 9, 1939, which has been completely evacuated owing to its proximity to the Maginot Line. (AP Photo)
Frozen Sperm Court Case
Katherine Kane, left, wipes tears away as her mother and attorney Sandra McMahan Irwin talks at a press conference in Los Angeles, Dec. 9, 1992, after a judge ruled that the frozen sperm of Katherine's father and Irwin's ex-husband be destroyed. William Everett Kane willed his sperm to his lover, however her claim was challenged by Irwin and Katherine Kane. The judge ordered a stay of his ruling to allow time for an appeal. (AP Photo/Michael Tweed)
WWII Pearl Harbor Reactions 1941
Joe Chiang, Washington correspondent for the Chinese Nationalist Daily, wears an improvised sign that reads "Chinese reporter, NOT Japanese, please" as he shows his press card to a guard and was admitted through a gate to the White House press room in Washington, Dec. 9, 1941. (AP Photo)
Guevara
Cuban Minister of Industry Ernesto "Che" Guevara, at center, carrying briefcase, arrives at Kennedy Airport in New York, Dec. 9, 1964. He will attend sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and deliver an address later in the two-week session. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo)
Trolleys Roll Again
Travelers alight from a morning streetcar trip into the downtown Pittsburgh business district, Dec. 9, 1957, as normal transit operations resume after the end of a 56-day strike by trolley and bus operators. (AP Photo/Walter Stein)
Pauley Brokaw
Anchorwoman Jane Pauley of NBC's "Today" show, left, breaks down in tears at the end of a half-hour memorial tribute to musician John Lennon, Dec. 9, 1980, as Tom Brokaw looks on. Lennon was shot and killed last night outside his apartment building. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea)
JOHN LENNON SHOT 1980
Customers in a New York record store look at Beatles' albums, Dec. 9, 1980, a day after John Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment building. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
WWII: New Guinea
U.S. soldiers laden with packs and followed by native porters wade into a turbulent jungle stream in New Guinea on Dec. 9, 1942. American and Australian forces have driven close to Japanese bases on northeastern shore of New Guinea in fighting. (AP Photo)