EVB2932137: First Lady, Mrs. William Taft (1861-1943) in a 1910 portrait, taken after her recovery from a stroke in the previous year. With her regained health she resumed her public life which included her role in having the famous Japanese cherry trees, planted around the Tidal Basin / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945425: Smoke over Yokohama, Japan, after incendiary bombing of large sections of the city. On May 29, 1945 in what is now known as the Great Yokohama Air Raid, an estimated seven or eight thousand people were killed in a single morning when 42% of the city was destroyed. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2939791: Funeral of US Air Force Capt. David A. Wisniewski who died July 2 2010 from injuries suffered during a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. He served four deployments to Iraq and three to Afghanistan. Helicopters fly over his internment at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925770: Gunder Hagg, Swedish runner with seven world records, arrived at LaGuardia Airport. June 6, 1943. He traveled from neutral Sweden to compete in U.S. track meets. Two years later, Hagg ran a mile in 4:01.4 seconds in Malmo, Sweden in 1945. The record held until broken by Roger Bannister in Oxford in 1954 / Bridgeman Images