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PHOTOS: Today in history — December 21

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The companionship that exists between the rulers of a mighty automobile manufacture empire Henry Ford and his son, Edsel Ford. Here they are sitting on the elder Fords first car with the 25-millionth in the background on Dec. 21, 1939. Note the profile resemblance the philosophy of the younger Ford, President of the entirely-family-owned two-billion-dollar concern, is of major importance to the financial and automotive worlds for it will someday determine the fiscal and industrial policies of a huge and vital segment of the worlds economic and business structure.
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On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was destroyed and the remains landed in and around the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. Forensic experts determined that plastic explosive had been detonated in the Boeing 747-121 forward cargo hold. The death toll was 270 people from 21 countries, including 11 people in the town of Lockerbie.
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George Eastman's party on the way to Kidong Valley in Africa. Left to right: Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, George Eastman, Daniel B. Pomeroy & Dr. Audley D. Stewart, Mr. Eastman's private physician and long-time friend poses here on Dec. 21, 1926.
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Apollo 8 blastoff, Cape Kennedy, Fla., Dec. 21, 1968.
Charles Gorry, The Associated Press
John F. Daniels, T/5 of Allentown, Pa., an MP motor patrol, inspects the electrically-powered midget auto, designed by a former kamikaze pilot, during its first public run in Tokyo, Dec. 21, 1947.
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Six correspondents and photographers who landed under fire in the Casablanca area, Morocco on Dec. 21, 1942, take time out from picture snapping, to pose for one themselves. From left to right are John Jarrell of International News Service, David Brown of Reuters, Irving Smith of Universal Newsreel, Sam Schulman of International News Photos, Harold Boyle of Associated Press, and Walter Logan of United Press.
Horst Faas, The Associated Press
Leg art for safetys sake. Cats eyes for pedestrians to make them visible in the headlights of automobiles and motorcycles were shown by an inventor at the German Inventors Fair in Recklinghausen, Germany, Dec. 21, 1956. Although cats' eyes for pedestrians are not brand new, may be this arrangement opens ways for more decorative designs.
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French women who had been jailed by the Germans for political offenses rush from the jail gate to freedom after American Seventh Army troops liberated them in Haguenau, an Alsatian town 15 miles south of German border on Dec. 21, 1944.
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Sampans are squeezed nearer and nearer to the mouth of Yangtze river, Shanghai, China, Dec. 21, 1948, as more refugees flee from the advancing Communist troops arrive in the city. Bridge in the foreground is Chapoo Road Bridge.
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Salvador Dali is shown with his wife, Mrs. Gala Dali, as they arrive in New York on the S.S. America, Dec. 21, 1949.
Harold Valentine, The Associated Press
Two black ministers who were active in the long boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala., were among the first to ride after the Supreme Court's integration order went into effect, Dec. 21, 1956. At left, front seat, is the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, while at left in the second seat is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beside King is white minister, Rev. Glenn Smiley of New York, who said he was in Montgomery as an observer. Woman at right is unidentified.
Henry Huet, The Associated Press
Evangelist Billy Graham looks upon a Viet Cong POW in traction and being treated for battle wounds at the U.S. 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon Dec. 21, 1966. Graham had shortly before addressed a large gathering a Saigons Airbase.
George Brich, The Associated Press
A scowling Charles Manson goes to lunch after an outbreak in court that resulted in his ejection, along with three women co-defendants, from the Tate murder trial, Dec. 21, 1970. The outburst started after Leslie Van Houten said she wanted to fire her new lawyer, a replacement for missing Ronald Hughes, and hire a woman attorney. Before she was ejected to an adjoining room with the others, Ms. Van Houten slapped a bailiff and told the judge "I'd strike you if I could."
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A crowd carries Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg after his victory over Czechoslovakia's Jan Kodes in the Davis Cup finals in Stockholm, Dec. 21, 1975. Borg's win marks the first time that Sweden has captured the Davis Cup.
Marty Lederhandler, The Associated Press
New York Yankee Reggie Jackson gets fitted in his custom made full-length $7000.00 Nutria fur coat at a New York fur salon Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1976.
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Grasshoppers crossing the Murray Valley Highway in Victoria, Australia look for another field to devour, Dec. 21, 1934.
Carlos Rene Perez, The Associated Press
Rock star Frank Zappa, wearing a chef's cap, cuts a 20-foot-long cake shaped like a snake, outside a Times Square movie house where his film "Baby Snakes"was premiering, Dec. 21, 1979 in New York City. The cake, served to passers by from a flatbed truck, was to mark Zappa's 39th birthday.
Mohamed El-Dakhakhny, The Associated Press
Rescue workers search for bodies from the train wreck in Badrshein 25 miles south of Cairo Thursday, Dec. 21, 1995. Police said at least 75 people were killed and 76 were injured when a train carrying mostly workers slammed into the Cairo-to-Luxor express, which had slowed down because of heavy fog.