Dachau, Iwo Jima and more: 19 iconic images that were taken on Feb. 19
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.
1931: Charlie Chaplin
Actor Charlie Chaplin waving his acknowledgment to cheers greeting him as he left Paddington Train Station for the Carlton Hotel in London, England on Feb. 19, 1931. (AP Photo)
1941: German Occupation
Grim, tragic are the faces of these French folk as they watch the proud colors of famous French regiments in Marseilles on Feb. 19, 1941, go to African exile. The regiments were broken up after the fall of France. (AP Photo)
1941: Lend Lease Bill
Kneeling on the Capitol Plaza, a group of women in Washington who said they represent various mothers' organizations, prayed aloud against the pending British aid bill, Feb. 19, 1941. Previously they had marched back and forth in front of the Capitol until they were advised by a police sergeant that picketing the Capitol was forbidden. Woman in front with hand to hat is Elizabeth Dilling of Chicago, who was ejected from Capitol several days ago. In background is the Supreme Court building. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)
1945: Iwo Jima
In the Pacific theater of World War II, U.S. Marines hit the beach and charge over a dune on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands Feb. 19, 1945, the start of one of the deadliest battles of the war against Japan. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)
1947: Sleep study
Harry Berger, assisted by Marjorie Lobman, right, demonstrates the way they clock the movements of a sleeping person to determine the causes of strain on sleepwear at tension points, shoulders, waist and crotch, Feb. 19, 1947. The model is Harriet Bergman. (AP Photo)
1949: Dachau
On these so-called "pistol Ranges" prisoners were shot en masse at the former concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, Feb. 19, 1949. Prisoners went in one end of this building alive and never made it out alive. The poison gas and cremating ovens were nearby. (AP Photo)
1952: ELIZABETH TAYLOR MICHAEL WILDING
Actress Elizabeth Taylor is greeted by fiance Michael Wilding on her arrival at London Airport, London, Feb. 19, 1952. The couple are due to wed in London on Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle)
1952: Pendleton Nor'easter Rescue Mission
The stern section of the ill-fated tanker S.S. Pendleton that cracked in two during yesterday's storm, lies on a sandbar off the coast of Chatham, Mass, Feb. 19, 1952. The Coast Guard rescued 32 of the 33 persons aboard this section. (AP Photo)
1955: Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret is the center of attraction for an admiring crowd as she walks with Colin Calder, president of the Jockey Club of Jamaica, at Knutsford Park in Kingston, Jamaica on Feb. 19, 1955. (AP Photo)
1959: Debbie Reynolds
This is how actress Debbie Reynolds looked during her brief appearance on the witness stand during her divorce hearing, Feb. 19, 1959 in Los Angeles. Debbie was granted a divorce from singer Eddie Fisher. These pictures were made while Debbie was actually testifying. (AP Photo)
1960: Billy Graham
Billy Graham, the American evangelist, is touring West Africa preaching in the old slave states-Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria. He has come away from each meeting much impressed by the numbers who came to listen to him, and their quietness and dignity. He chats with a Miango woman and a little boy near the Miango village in Eastern Nigeria, Feb. 19, 1960. The woman carries a sizeable load of firewood on her head. The Miangos are still one of Nigeria’s most primitive tribes. (AP Photo)
1960: Castro
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro tells a nationwide television audience that he holds a piece from the shattered fuselage of a light plane which he said was based in the U.S. and which planned to bomb Cuban sugar mills, Feb. 19, 1960. He said the planes exploded yesterday over Matanzas province killing its two occupants and that he had documentary proof they were Americans. (AP Photo/Harold Valentine)
1960: Winter Olympics
U.S. left wing Weldon Olson, left, and Miroslav Vlach, Czechoslovakian Olympic hockey team left wing, battle for puck behind the nets in opening Olympic hockey battle, Feb. 19, 1960 in Squaw Valley. The United States team came from behind to win by a 7-5 score. (AP Photo)
1962: Germany Hamburg Flood
With the flood waters still swirling through the streets of Hamburg, Germany on Feb. 19, 1962, a police car submerged on the autobahn near the city can be seen, and in the background a heavy lorry and it's trailer wheel deep in water that have been abandoned there because they could be recovered yet. (AP Photo)
1964: Kissing Rock
Paul Hubbard, a basketball player, kisses Sharon Wemhoner at Carthage College's Kissing Rock, Feb. 19, 1964, Carthage, Illinois. Many thought the rock would be abandoned when the college relocated at Kenosha, Wis., however a fraternity hauled the two-ton chunk of granite to the new campus. (AP Photo)
1967: Vietnam War
A U.S. soldier hits a Viet Cong prisoner in the face after the guerrilla had been flushed from his underwater hiding place near Bong Son, 300 miles northeast of Saigon, Feb. 19, 1967. Two Viet Cong, hiding in the stream and breathing through bamboo stalks, had been captured by a company of U.S. 1st Cavalry Division. The GIs had been under the strain of three months in jungles and seeing their buddies maimed and killed. (AP Photo)
1970: Anti-war Demonstrators
Placard carrying demonstrators march along Tremont Street in Boston on Thursday, Feb. 19, 1970, en route to a rally at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in support of the Chicago 7 defendants. (AP Photo)
1979: Jimmy Carter, Mary Ann Dubs, Lindsay Dubs
President Jimmy Carter shares a moment of sorrow with Mary Ann Dubs, the widow of slain Ambassador Adolph Dubs at Andrews Air Force base in Maryland on Sunday, Feb. 19, 1979 as Dub’s body is returned to the United States, for burial. Mrs. Dubs heads the department of State Secretary’s Award. Standing to the right is the ambassador’s daughter Lindsay. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
1983: Ku Klux Klan
About fifty members of the Ku Klux Klan obtained a parade permit and staged a march on the Texas Capitol in Austin Saturday, Feb. 19, 1983. Members of the Klan are surrounded by a heavy police guard as they are escorted from the capitol following the march. (AP Photo/Daemmrich)
1997: Zaire
A young Rwandan refugee holds her infant sister who is dying of malnutrition in Kalima, Zaire, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1997 after walking from Shabunda where their parents died last week. Twenty five thousand refugees who have walked for months are camped along the grass airstrip in Kalima hoping that food and medicine will arrive. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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