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20 iconic images that were taken on August 20
Aug 12, 2018
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 taken from that date. Not all of these photos were prize winners, but each of them is certainly tells a story.
1932: Los Angeles Olympics
Captain Ernst Hallberg, of the Swedish equestrian all-around team, got ahead of his prize mount Marokan, as he jumps one of the Tenth Olympiad steeplechase hurdles in Los Angeles, California, Aug. 12, 1932. (AP Photo)
1939: England Militia Rifle Drill
Men of the militia at rifle drill in England, on Aug. 12, 1939, one of the youngest drafts brought into the British Army, now fast getting into their stride. (AP Photo)
1942: CHICAGO TURNS OFF THE LIGHT
Looking southwards from the Board of Trade Building, this view shows the city of Chicago during a 30-minute blackout test, on August 12, 1942, in World War II. The line of lights in the center background follows the curve of the lake shore. The small glow in the rear comes from the South Chicago Steel Mills. (AP Photo)
1942: U.S. Prisoners Bataan
The caption which accompanied this picture, received in New York by way of Lisbon and London, describes the scene as showing ìThe Bearded, weary heroes of the epic defense of Corregidor, rock fortress of Manila Bay in the Philippines on August 12, 1942, being marched away to captivity after the capitulation.î (AP Photo)
1954: WILLIAM FAULKNER
William Faulkner, author, is pictured at work at his typewriter on August 12, 1954. Faulkner’s novels have won prizes and distinction in his own country and outside. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. In 1955 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “A Fable”, which also took other American awards. (AP Photo)
1955: Hurricane Connie
Motorists take it easy through this underpass at Queens Blvd., and Horace Harding Blvd., Aug. 12, 1955, Long Island, New York. New York City was hit by Hurricane Connie, causing the heaviest rains of the year. The weather bureau reported 4.61-inches during a 17-hour period beginning at 8 p.m., Aug. 11. Many cellars were flooded and roofs made dangerous heavy by the weight of the water, and motor cars stacked along highways leading to the city. (AP Photo/John Lent)
1959: Civil Rights Integration
This is the spearhead of riot-bound demonstrators as they left the state capitol en route to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 12, 1959. Many of the demonstrators were arrested after violence erupted two blocks from the high school, and several were drenched with water from fire hoses. This was the first day of school for the year on an integrated basis. (AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman)
1959: Marlene Dietrich
Fur bedecked Marlene Dietrich, center, gasps for breath as police rush to aid the fainting actress at Buenos Aires Opera House, August 12, 1959. The actress was mobbed and had to hide in elevator when she arrived to make brief stage appearance at the Opera House. She had come to Buenos Aires on August 10. (AP Photo)
1963: Protests
A yelling demonstrator is hauled off to police van in Chicago on August 12, 1963. He was one in a group of 15 whites and African Americans who were arrested following picketing against a local mobile school project. School board contends mobile classrooms are needed to alleviate crowded conditions. (AP Photo)
1966: Beatlemania protest
The Beatles went up in smoke near Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., on August 12, 1966 as neighborhood youngsters severed once and for all their two–year friendship with the four world figures. The Beatlemania bonfire, planned by Chuck Smith, 13, was in protest against John Lennon remark to the effect that the Beatles are “more popular than Jesus.” (AP Photo)
1966: Viet Cong Prisoners
American Marines of the 1st Batt./5th Marines relax the morning after an all night battles against an estimated Viet Cong regiment. They are also watching a group of tied and blindfolded prisoners on August 12, 1966. The battle took place 40 miles southwest of Danang near Tam Ky. The Marines suffered moderate casualties but were able to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy. (AP Photo)
1970: Chicago
Gerome Harris, left, and Reynoldo Sodini, right, are led from Circuit Court linked by handcuffs in Chicago on Wednesday, August 12, 1970, after they were sentenced to 30 days apiece in county jail for contempt of court by Magistrate Mayor Goldstein after fighting erupted during the trial of 11 University of Illinois students. (AP Photo)
1972: Chuck Berry
Rock and roll musician Chuck Berry points to the outdoor crowd gathered for the Festival of Hope Rockfest at the Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, Long Island, N.Y., Aug. 12, 1972. The concert is organized for the benefit of the Nassau County Easter Seal Society. (AP Photo)
1977: Son of Sam
New York Police hustle David Berkowitz, into police station, Thursday, August 12, 1977 after the chubby, 24 year old solitary creature was located. Berkowitz smiled at being caught, as if that were the object of the whole thing. There was no hint of regret in the six dead. (AP Photo)
1978: Hollywood
Workmen prepare to take down the letter “D” in the famed “Hollywood” sign, the last one to be removed from the sign that has stood in the Hollywood Hills overlooking Los Angeles for 55 years, on Aug. 12, 1978. The old sign, made from telephone poles and plywood, had gradually succumbed to high winds and dry rot and is to be replaced with a new one. The new sign is being financed by several fund raising projects. The Mulholland Highway sign is shown in the foreground. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
1979: BELFAST RIOT
Catholic youths throw stones and gasoline bombs at British troops, Aug.12,1979. Rioting broke out after the British troops appeared at an afternnoon rally in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)
1983: Bette Midler
Songstress Bette Midler jokes with her audience during her performance at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, Aug. 12, 1983. Ms. Midler had collapsed onstage during a show in Clarkston, Michigan in late July, and had to be hospitalized briefly. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
1985: AIR DISASTER
Air Disaster – Rescue workers search for survisors of the Japan Air Lines 747 jetliner that crashed Monday night, August 12, 1985 into a mountain in central Japan. The plane crashed into remote mountains making rescue efforts difficult. The AP-Photo shows rescue operations conducted by the Japan Self Defense Forces on August 13th. (AP-Photo)
1992: Bosnia Herzegovina
A child held by an unidentified person waves from the window of a relief bus in Sarajevo bound for Croatia, Aug. 12, 1992. About 340 mothers and children were to board five buses headed for safety under U.N. escort after besieging Serb forces agreed to allow their evacuation. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker)
1994: WOODSTOCK
Mud-covered moshers cavort in front of the stage at the Woodstock ’94 festival in Saugerties, N.Y., shown in this Friday Aug. 12, 1994 photo. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
