Stan the Man, Betty Grable and more: 20 iconic photos that were taken on Feb. 8
The Associated Press has won 31 Pulitzer prizes for photography, since the award was established in 1917. Each day we offer a curated collection of some of the best AP images that were captured from that date.
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1932: Olympics
Irving Jaffee of the United States shows his gold medal after winning the 10,000-meter speed skating championship at the third Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1932. Jaffee's time was 19:13.6. (AP Photo)
1933: Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler giving the fascist salute to crowds cheering him in Berlin on Feb. 8, 1933 after he was made chancellor by President Von Hindenburg. At right, also saluting, is Hermann Goering, minister without portfolio in the Hitler cabinet. (AP Photo)
1941: NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS
The King and Queen, in regal splendor, are seen at the Mardi Gras carnival’s ball grand march Feb. 8, 1941. Her majesty, usually a debutante, wears an outfit that weighs up to 60lbs., with thousands of rhinestones that costs between $300 to $5,000 dollars. (AP Photo)
1942: Stan Musial
Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals, left, chats with rookie fielder Stanley Musial of Donora, Pa., at the spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 8, 1942. Musial went to the Cards from Rochester last season and hit .426 in the final stretch. (AP Photo)
1944: England West Indies Squadron
Good friends are Flight Sergeant James J. Hyde of San Juan, Trinidad, West Indies, and Dingo, mascot of his squadron in England, Feb. 8, 1944. Sgt. Hyde did his training in England, were he has been for more than two years. (AP Photo)
1944: Varga Girl
Alberto Varga, glorifier of the pin-up girl, works on small-scale drawings for the Broadway show "Mexican Hayride" in his Chicago studio on Feb. 8, 1944. A Varga drawing will become a mural on the largest painted sign on Broadway, atop the Winter Garden Theater. The sign will measure 157 by 30 feet. (AP Photo)
1945: Betty Grable
Actress Betty Grable enjoys the sun, February 8, 1945. (AP Photo)
1947: Frozen Niagara Falls
The customary roar of Niagara Falls was reduced to a trickle as huge areas of ice silenced the falls, in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1947. Sub-freezing temperatures put the 163-foot high cataract into almost solid ice. (AP Photo)
1952: IKE FOR PRESIDENT
Delegations of Eisenhower supporters from Massachusetts and New Hampshire whoop it up at Boston's South Station, February 8, 1952, where they entrained for New York City to attend an Eisenhower-for-President rally in Madison Square Garden. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green)
1956: Integration
Three African-American undergraduate students, admitted to the University of North Carolina, check their grades between semesters at their home in Durham, North Carolina on Feb. 8, 1956. The three have enrolled for the second semester without any campus reaction. They are left to right: John Brandon, and Leroy and Ralph Frasier, brothers. (AP Photo/Rudolph Faircloth)
1958: Brigitte Bardot
French actress Brigitte Bardot is seen at the Italian winter resort of Cortina D'Ampezzo, on February 8, 1958. The 23-year-old film star arrived with her sister to recuperate from what her agent called "extreme fatigue." (AP Photo)
1964: The Beatles
American TV host Ed Sullivan, left, talks with three members of the British pop group The Beatles during a rehearsal for their appearance on his TV show, in New York, Feb. 8, 1964. From left, Sullivan, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. George Harrison, the fourth member of the group missed the rehearsal due to illness. (AP Photo)
1968: Orangeburg Riot
Delano Middleton, 17, an Orangeburg High School student lays wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College, February 8, 1968 after state police and rioting Blacks exchanged gunfire. Middleton died later in the Orangeburg hospital. (AP Photo)
1968: Peggy Fleming
American figure skater Peggy Fleming competes in the 1968 Winter Olympics at Palais des Sports in Grenoble, Feb. 8, 1968. (AP Photo/Rider)
1971: VIETNAM ARMORED VEHICLE
South Vietnamese soldiers ride an armored vehicle along Route 9 into Laos during an operation Feb. 8, 1971. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
1977: Japan schools
Almost naked in near-freezing temperatures, youngsters at Machida kindergarten near Tokyo on Feb. 8, 1977, get set for a race during a 15-minute a day “Go naked and healthier” program. Started five years ago, the program has been very successful, officials say. (AP Photo)
1978: WINTER SNOW BLIZZARD
Cars and trucks stranded and abandoned in deep snow along Route 128 in Dedham, Mass., are seen in this Feb. 9, 1978 photo, as military and civilian plows begin to dig them out during the blizzard of 1978. (AP Photo)
1984: Michael Jackson
Confetti falls everywhere as young dancers surround superstar Michael Jackson at New York's Natural History Museum, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1984. Jackson was honored for his successful "Thriller" album by CBS Records chief Walter Yetnikoff. The museum's collection of stuffed elephants and other animals was the setting for the party. "Jackson specifically asked that it be held here because he was interested in animals and natural history," said a spokesman for the museum. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
1984: Mudslide
Gail Cable, left, watchs as Darrell Woods shovels mud from his driveway in the Pasadena Glen section of Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1994. The Pasadena and Altadena suburbs of Los Angeles were hit with severe flooding after the firestorms of the fall had burned the foliage in the hillside. (AP Photo/Michael Tweed)
1995: Princess Diana
Waving British and Japanese flags, local residents in downtown Tokyo try to reach Princess Diana,the Princess of Wales as the Princess makes a short walk between two facilities she was visiting on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1995. Princess Diana is greeted by crowds of well-wishers at every place she goes. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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