AP Historical Hard Drive 2004

Russian revolutionary and theorist Vladimir Ilich Lenin is seen in this drawing dated 1918. (AP Photo)

German soldiers ready their machine gun as they stand in a trench watching enemy positions, at an unknown battlefield during World War I, in ca. 1918....

The first force of American troops to reach France is shown after disembarking ships at Brest, June 27, 1917, during Worl War I. (AP Photo)

A fireboat is shown amid ruins and soaked smoldering debris on the piers at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., July 30, 1916. German saboteurs de...

Police investigate the explosion of a munition plant at Black Tom Island, part of Jersey City, N.J., on July 30, 1916. (AP Photo)

This view shows the wreckage of buildings on the pier at Black Tom Island, part of Jersey City, N.J., following the explosion of a munition plant set...

German airman Manfred von Richthofen, called the

This view shows the ruined building of the munitions plant in the aftermath of an explosion by German saboteurs at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N....

This view shows the ruins at Black Tom Island following the explosion of a munition plant by German saboteurs in Jersey City, N.J., 1916. (AP Photo)

This view shows the ruins on the pier following the explosion of a munition plant at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., in 1916. German saboteurs...

An artist's rendition shows the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Czech Countess Sophie Chotek, during their...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Czech Countess Sophie Chotek, leave the reception at City Hall and walk toward an open car i...

People are gathered in front of the The New York Sun's building on Broadway, reading the bulletin board with latest news about the Titanic, in April 1...

Wilbur Wright makes a flight during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in New York in 1909. Wright started from Governors Island to fly up the Hudson River...

Mary Garden of New York's Metropolitan Opera, dressed as Salome, one of her most famous roles, in 1909. (AP Photo)

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, seated at left in rear, is shown during a visit at Michigan State College campus for its 50th anniversary observanc...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, second from left, and his wife, Empress Soraya, right, flank the U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles,...

This ca. 1900 photograph shows a street scene in San Francisco, California. (AP Photo)

This view made during the blizzard of 1888 shows New Yorkers hiking across the bridge after being forced to leave their train when it stalled as a res...

This general view shows the Chicago Court house and downtown area in the aftermath of the fire in Chicago, Ill., 1871. (AP Photo)

A New York street is shown during the blizzard of 1888. The blizzard that occured March 12-14 paralyzed the city with 40

The awning of a grocery store is damaged from the weight of the snow during the blizzard of 1888 in New York City. The blizzard on March 12-14 paraly...

Edith Kermit Roosevelt is shown wearing a turn-of-the-century dress of black re-embroidered lace over taffeta in 1895. Edith Kermit Carow married The...

Edith Kermit Roosevelt is shown wearing a turn-of-the-century dress of black re-embroidered lace over taffeta in 1895. Edith Kermit Carow married The...

Helen Adams Keller, born June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala., is shown in 1887 at the age of seven in New York City. (AP Photo)

Winston Churchill, aged 5, in a sailor suit at his family home, in 1879. At this time Churchill was living with his parents and grandparents at The Li...