Wimbledon Tennis Bunny Austin
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Henry Wilfred Austin, known as Bunny Austin, the British tennis player, in play against Edward Avory, unseen, at Wimbledon, London on June 23, 1930. (AP Photo)
Walt Disney 1938
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Walt Disney of Hollywood, the famed animated cartoon producer whose schooldays ended soon after grammar school, showed a trifle of nervousness he prepared to pose with noted school and scientists at Harvard University, June 23, 1938. He adjusts part of his scholarly robes as he sits with other recipients of honor degrees after the commencement exercises. (AP Photo/Abe Fox)
NY
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Image shows Paricutin volcano, which violently errupted after rising out of a hillside in February this year. Michoacan, Mexico, June. 23, 1943. (AP Photo)
Rural Two Room Schoolhouse 1950
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"Mama" Sarah L. Murphy teaches some of the 48 indigent and orphaned children in a two-room schoolhouse at Rockmart, Ga., June 23, 1950. The school is badly in need of paint and repairs. Her home nearby, founded in 1934 to take care of such children, houses 32 girls and small children, while the 16 boys bunk in makeshift cabins. (AP Photo)
Civil Rights Integration 1963
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Black and white demonstrators, 65-strong and under arrest, troop off beach at Biloxi, June 23, 1963 after staging unsuccessful attempt to desegregate the Gulf Coast beach. Group was led by Dr. Gilbert Mason (center, foreground) and white minister, Rev. R.G. Gallagher, Biloxi (third in line with shorts). The group was arrested for ?trespassing on private property.? (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)
Civil Rights Demonstration
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Pickets outside federal courthouse in New York, hold lettered placards spelling “Mississippi”, June 23, 1965. The group, comprising members of the Congress of Racial Equality and the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee, were protesting the jailing of almost 1,000 persons in Jackson, Miss., and the alleged beating of dozens in jail in Jackson. Fourteen of the civil rights demonstrators chained themselves to parts of the building to block entrance to courthouse. Deputy marshals cut the chains and took the demonstrators to detention cells. (AP Photo/Jacob Harris)
Quasar Khanh, Nguyen Manh Khanh
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South Vietnamese-born designer Quasar drives the six-foot long square-shaped plastic car he built and which is scheduled to be a hit with the young driving set, in Paris, June 23, 1967. The car can be driven at speeds of up to 60 mph (AP Photo/Michel Laurent)
Chicago Slums
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Urban renewal development office in Chicago on June 23, 1969. (AP Photo/Charles E. Knoblock)
Young Sandinista Guerrilla
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A young Sandinista guerrilla takes aim with his 45 pistol as he stands waiting to do combat with the Nicaraguan National Guard in Managua June 23, 1979. The guerrillas still occupy major parts of the Capitol City. (AP Photo/McLendon)
Bob Dylan
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American singer Bob Dylan performs at the Olympic Stadium in Colombes, France, before an estimated 40,000 fans, June 23, 1981. (AP Photo)
Len Bias Death 1986
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James Bias Jr., brother of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, is comforted by friends after the private funeral service in College Park, Maryland for his brother, June 23, 1986.
Japan Tokyo Streets
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A plaster bust has a pen like object in the ear, but it’s not a practical joke. It’s demonstration of a single-band AM radio in Tokyo on Thursday, June 23, 1988 by a Japanese pen maker. When Sony first came with Walkman, people wore headsets. Now you got to stick a radio that’s in the shape of a fountain pen into year ear. Measuring ¾ inch in diameter and 7½ inches in length, the radio runs 33 hours on battery. An AM radio will be sold for $16 and an FM radio for and 24. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
Jerry Killian, Steven Gedes
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“Southern Country” dancers Jerry Killian, left, and Steven Gedes, of Atlanta perform on Peachtree Street during the Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival parade enroute to a to rally at Piedmont Park, Sunday, June 23, 1991, Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/Judy Ondrey)
POPE
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FILE - The June 23, 1996 file photo shows Pope John Paul II waving to the crowd of some 130,000 people during the Mass with the beatification of two German priests, who opposed Adolf Hitler, in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate a mass in the stadium during his visit to Germany on September 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Mari, pool)
END OF THE ROAD
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Vestable Hukaneza, 10, is put in a grave at the Iyonda local cemetery, 600 kms northeast of kinshasa, Monday June 23, 1997. Hukaneza died of severe malnutrition in the Iyonda hospital 2 days after arriving in Iyonda, ending there a trek of eight month accross Congo. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
Sept 11 Anniversary Photo Gallery
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FILE - This June 23, 1999 file photo shows the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York skyline in this June 23, 1999 photo. Both buildings were destroyed on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 after two airliners were hijacked by terrorists and crashed into them. Families of the victims of the worst terror attack on the United States in history gathered Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, to mark their 12th anniversary with a moment of silence and the reading of names. The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington killed almost 3,000 people and lead to a war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
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Walt Disney 1938
- Abe Fox
Walt Disney of Hollywood, the famed animated cartoon producer whose schooldays ended soon after grammar school, showed a trifle of nervousness he prepared to pose with noted school and scientists at Harvard University, June 23, 1938. He adjusts part of his scholarly robes as he sits with other recipients of honor degrees after the commencement exercises. (AP Photo/Abe Fox)
Rural Two Room Schoolhouse 1950
- Anonymous
"Mama" Sarah L. Murphy teaches some of the 48 indigent and orphaned children in a two-room schoolhouse at Rockmart, Ga., June 23, 1950. The school is badly in need of paint and repairs. Her home nearby, founded in 1934 to take care of such children, houses 32 girls and small children, while the 16 boys bunk in makeshift cabins. (AP Photo)
Civil Rights Integration 1963
- Jim Bourdier
Black and white demonstrators, 65-strong and under arrest, troop off beach at Biloxi, June 23, 1963 after staging unsuccessful attempt to desegregate the Gulf Coast beach. Group was led by Dr. Gilbert Mason (center, foreground) and white minister, Rev. R.G. Gallagher, Biloxi (third in line with shorts). The group was arrested for ?trespassing on private property.? (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)
Civil Rights Demonstration
- Jacob Harris
Pickets outside federal courthouse in New York, hold lettered placards spelling “Mississippi”, June 23, 1965. The group, comprising members of the Congress of Racial Equality and the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee, were protesting the jailing of almost 1,000 persons in Jackson, Miss., and the alleged beating of dozens in jail in Jackson. Fourteen of the civil rights demonstrators chained themselves to parts of the building to block entrance to courthouse. Deputy marshals cut the chains and took the demonstrators to detention cells. (AP Photo/Jacob Harris)
Quasar Khanh, Nguyen Manh Khanh
- Michel Laurent
South Vietnamese-born designer Quasar drives the six-foot long square-shaped plastic car he built and which is scheduled to be a hit with the young driving set, in Paris, June 23, 1967. The car can be driven at speeds of up to 60 mph (AP Photo/Michel Laurent)
Young Sandinista Guerrilla
- McLendon
A young Sandinista guerrilla takes aim with his 45 pistol as he stands waiting to do combat with the Nicaraguan National Guard in Managua June 23, 1979. The guerrillas still occupy major parts of the Capitol City. (AP Photo/McLendon)
Japan Tokyo Streets
- Katsumi Kasahara
A plaster bust has a pen like object in the ear, but it’s not a practical joke. It’s demonstration of a single-band AM radio in Tokyo on Thursday, June 23, 1988 by a Japanese pen maker. When Sony first came with Walkman, people wore headsets. Now you got to stick a radio that’s in the shape of a fountain pen into year ear. Measuring ¾ inch in diameter and 7½ inches in length, the radio runs 33 hours on battery. An AM radio will be sold for $16 and an FM radio for and 24. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
Jerry Killian, Steven Gedes
- Judy Ondrey
“Southern Country” dancers Jerry Killian, left, and Steven Gedes, of Atlanta perform on Peachtree Street during the Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival parade enroute to a to rally at Piedmont Park, Sunday, June 23, 1991, Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/Judy Ondrey)
POPE
- POOL MARI
FILE - The June 23, 1996 file photo shows Pope John Paul II waving to the crowd of some 130,000 people during the Mass with the beatification of two German priests, who opposed Adolf Hitler, in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate a mass in the stadium during his visit to Germany on September 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Mari, pool)
END OF THE ROAD
- JEAN-MARC BOUJU
Vestable Hukaneza, 10, is put in a grave at the Iyonda local cemetery, 600 kms northeast of kinshasa, Monday June 23, 1997. Hukaneza died of severe malnutrition in the Iyonda hospital 2 days after arriving in Iyonda, ending there a trek of eight month accross Congo. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
Sept 11 Anniversary Photo Gallery
- ED BAILEY
FILE - This June 23, 1999 file photo shows the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York skyline in this June 23, 1999 photo. Both buildings were destroyed on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 after two airliners were hijacked by terrorists and crashed into them. Families of the victims of the worst terror attack on the United States in history gathered Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, to mark their 12th anniversary with a moment of silence and the reading of names. The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington killed almost 3,000 people and lead to a war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
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On June 23, 1888: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first Black candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)