#16 oct.

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When legendary performer Josephine Baker and her party were refused food service at the Stork Club on October 16, 1951, the NAACP organized a picket line in front of the chic night spot. Seen on October 22 are Bessie Buchanan, Baker's personal secretary; Laura Z. Hobson, author of "Gentleman's Agreement, a novel about anti-Semitism; and Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

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These members of the (football) New York Giants found a line they couldn't crash—the draft line—when 25 of them marched to register under the conscription law on October 16, 1940. Leaning over, giving data, are, right to left: Jerry Dannerlein and Frank Cope. Looking on behind them are right to left: Mel Hein, Kay Eakin, Walt Neilsen, and other members of the squad.

Photo: Associated Press

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Ida Schnall, captain of the NY Female Giants (baseball) and her girls dash out of the icy waters of Brighton Beach after a period of exercises, October 16, 1925.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

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A grinning Dwight Eisenhower hears members of National Arts and Sports Committee for the Eisenhower-Nixon Republican ticket sing an "I Like Ike" song for him at the Waldorf Astoria before the general appeared at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, October 16, 1952.

From left to right back of piano, are: Gene Tunney; Eddie Eagan, Robert Montgomery, Happy Felton (partially hidden), Gen. Eisenhower, Dorothy Fields, Bob Christenberry (partially hidden), Bill Gaxton, and New Hampshire Gov. Sherman Adams. Seated at the piano are Irving Berlin and Helen Hayes.

Photo: Matty Zimmerman for the AP