On This Day: Sept. 21
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Broadway theaters light the night in the Shubert Alley theater section of New York City on Sept. 21, 1967.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some of an estimated 75 relatives and friends of victims of the "Son of Sam" killer hold signs echoing their sentiments on Sept. 21, 1977, as they march outside the Kings County Psychiatric Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, where David Berkowitz, the accused killer, was undergoing psychiatric tests.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Part of an advanced contingent of Japanese Americans evacuated from the West Coast arrive at the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, on Sept. 21, 1942. This group will get the big center ready for other West Coast evacuees. Pictured is Agnes Uyesugi (center, bow in hair), recreation director, talking to some of the boys and girls who recently arrived.ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Marines emerge from their muddy foxholes at sunrise after a third night of fighting against continued attacks of north Vietnamese 324 B division troops during the Vietnam War on Sept. 21, 1966.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Corazon Aquino, right, widow of assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino, reads an oath to freedom, independence and democracy to tens of thousands of Filipino who attended an anti-government rally to demand the resignation of President Ferdinand E. Marcos on Sept. 21, 1983, in Manila.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston Red Sox slugger Wade Boggs acknowledges the fans applause after breaking Tris Speaker's record for most hits by a Red Sox player in one season against the Detroit Tigers on Sept. 21, 1985 at Fenway Park in Boston.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Debris is seen strewn across the Tenere Desert in Niger from a French UTA DC-10, flight 772, which was believed to have exploded in mid-air en route from N'Djamena, Chad, to Paris with 171 people on board on Sept. 21, 1989. The wreckage was widely scattered over 40 square miles. UTA said they received an anonymous call saying Islamic Jihad was responsible.ASSOCIATED PRESS
President George Bush stretches prior to an afternoon jog at Fort McNair in Washington on Sept. 21, 1989.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Elizabeth Taylor and Malcolm Forbes look over the first issue of the new magazine EGG during a promotion party aboard his yacht, Highlander in New York on Sept. 21, 1989.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illinois State Attorney General Roland Burris, left, grasps the hand of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton during a voter registration rally in Chicago on Sept. 21, 1992. Behind Clinton is U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michael Jordan feeds Mary Lou Retton a spoonful of the new Wheaties cereal as Bruce Jenner, left, and Bob Richards, right, taste their bowls of Wheaties during a news conference in Chicago on Sept. 21, 1994. Each of the athletes has appeared on Wheaties boxes.ASSOCIATED PRESS
News media hoping to gain entry to the home of track superstar Florence Griffith-Joyner are turned away at the security gate of Canyon Crest, Mission Viejo, California on Sept. 21, 1998. Joyner's sudden death at age 38 drew news crews to the location.