Wrestle royals, candy cigarettes and more: 20 iconic photos that were taken on March 14
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1929: Albert Einstein
Prof. Albert Einstein, famous scientist, poses with sailboat presented to him on his 50th birthday by Berliner Handelgesellschs Ftm, a well-known German bank, March 14, 1929. The boat was presented in place of the donation of the city of Berlin, a country house, which Einstein never received. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo)
1934: Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig, left, and Babe Ruth, the heavy hitters of the New York Yankees, photographed as they posed with their heavy artillery at the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg on March 14, 1934. Lou expects to play in every game again this year, and the Babe says he will be in 100 of them. (AP Photo)
1935: Mussolini
Italy's Premier Benito Mussolini, center, stands with an arm over the shoulders of his two sons, Bruno, left, and Vittorio during the young Fascists' Festival in Rome, Italy, March 14, 1935. (AP Photo)
1936: DUST BOWL
Agricultural machinery is buried under a mound of dust in Guymon, Ok., on March 14, 1936. (AP Photo)
1938: Seabiscuit
Thoroughbred racehorse Seabiscuit is awarded the horsemen's trophy at the closing of the Santa Anita racing season March 14, 1938. Alfred G. Vanderbilt presents the award to owner C.S. Howard. At left is trainer Tom Smith and apprentice Farrell Jones is up. (AP Photo)
1946: Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi joins his hands together in a gesture of prayer after addressing an audience of some 100,000 in Bombay's Shivaji Park, March 14, 1946. Gandhi, 76, planned to confer in the near future with British representatives on practical issues for self-government of India. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)
1946: Karl Willig
The noose is tightened around the hooded neck of Karl Willig, nurse at the Hadamar Medical Institute, Germany, before the trap is sprung in the courtyard of the Bruchsal Prison, March 14, 1946. Willig and two others had been found guilty of murdering some 300 Polish and Russian prisoners of war by means of lethal injection. The other two were hung the same morning. (AP Photo)
1950: Unfair to umps
If the electronic umpire proves a success, umpires Bill Stewart, left, and Augie Donatello may be out of a job, and they demonstrate at the Brooklyn Dodgers training camp in Vero Beach, Fla., March 14, 1950. They carry placards reading "Unfair To Umpires". (AP Photo/Walter Stein)
1952: Kirk Douglas with Rita Hayworth
Actress Rita Hayworth with Kirk Douglas at Ciro’s Night Club, on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, USA on March 14, 1952. Rita, who denied rumors of an impending romance with Douglas, may go to Reno later this month for her divorce hearing against Prince Aly Khan, unseen. Douglas divorced wife Diana, two years ago. (AP Photo)
1953: Outlawed Candy Cigarettes
Michael Miller, 5, of Fargo, N.D., "puffs" on one of his last candy cigarettes, March 14, 1953. North Dakota's governor signed a bill passed by the legislature forbidding the sale or possession of candy packaged to resemble cigarettes. The law is effective July 1. Violation is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and 90 days in jail. (AP Photo)
1958: Nathan Leopold
After 33 1/2 years in prison, Nathan Leopold, right, passes masonry and a network of iron bars during a stroll in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Ill., on his first full day of freedom, March 14, 1958. Leopold was granted parole from Stateville Penitentiary after originally being sentenced to life plus 99-years for the thrill killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924. Leopold is scheduled to leave later for Puerto Rico where he hopes to "get lost" from the notoriety that made him and his crime one of the most publicized of the century. Leopold's attorney Elmer Gertz is at left. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)
1962: Francis Gary Powers
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and his wife, Barbara, leave for some privacy after a meeting which was arranged in Rome, Ga., by Pepsi-Cola plant owner George E. Hunnicutt, a friend of Powers, March 14, 1962. The pilot had been resting at his family home in Pound, Va., since being questioned by government officials. His wife was with him while he was kept in a secret hideaway, but for the past few days she had been staying with her mother in Milledgeville, Ga. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
1964: FLOODING
The flooding Ohio River washes over a waterfront intersection in the Southeastern Indiana city of Aurora in this March 14, 1964 file photo. (AP Photo)
1964: Prince Charles
Prince Charles, oldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, arrives at London's Euston Station, March 14, 1964, from Gordonstoun, Scotland. He went to Buckingham Palace to see his new brother who was born on March 10. The prince wears the regulation gray suit of the Gordonstoun School which he attends. (AP Photo)
1965: Selma prayer
Group of demonstrators kneel and hold a prayer service at the entrance of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, March 14, 1965 after they were refused entry to the church as a group. At left is a group of church wardens who blocked their entry. At far right is Malcolm Peabody of Cambridge, Mass., who is the son of an Episcopal bishop and a brother of the former governor of Mass., Endicott Peabody. (AP Photo)
1967: In Like Flint
Youths in bathing suits crowd outside the Capitol Theater at 51st and Broadway in New York, March 14, 1967, as they wait to get in for the premiere of the film "In Like Flint." The first 200 persons to show up in bathing suits were admitted free. (AP Photo/John Duricka)
1967: Vietnam U.S. Crossing Water
An American infantryman of the 25th Division gives a helping hand to a buddy who slipped into a hole, slipping neck deep into the mud water of the Plain of Reeds some 30 miles northwest of Saigon, Vietnam on March 14, 1967. Most of the years the Plain of Reeds can only be traveled by boat. In the middle of the dry season, part of it is dry, the rest swamps. (AP Photo/John T. Wheeler)
1973: POW John McCain
John S. McCain III is escorted by Lt. Cmdr. Jay Coupe Jr., public relations officer, March 14, 1973, to Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport after the POW was released. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
1977: Battle royal
Six of women in battle royal, over the ropes wrestling match at the Nassau Coliseum tangle for advantage Monday, March 14, 1977. They are, left to right: Vicki Williams, Terri Shane, Joyce Grable, Judy Mansfield, Kitty Adams and Le Laini Kai, in the ropes. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)
1985: Oil Disaster
Firefighters spray water on a fire at the Amoco Oil Co., that broke out in Texas City, Texas, March 14, 1985. The fire occurred in an area where oil well and gasoline distillater are manufactured. (AP Photo/Ron Heflin)
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