Moments in History IV

In 1967, challenging the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer, at the time a headstrong 20-year-old junior at Syracuse University, entered the race. Two miles in, a race official tried to physically remove her from the competition.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on his first time in New York, 1968  

New York City sidewalks filled with trash during the 1968 strike of sanitation workers.

US President Richard Nixon jumps down from the trunk of a limousine which carried him and Pakistani President Yahya Khan (left, background) in a motorcade to Government House after Nixon's arrival in Lahore on August 1, 1969  

Children play a game on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphic user interface, 1973. Its monitor was switchable between portrait and landscape mode. 

Statue of Liberty as seen from Jersey City, 1963

President Carter with engineers and solar panels newly installed on the White House, 1979.
President Reagan had them removed in 1986, to be reinstalled by President Obama in 2010   

Barack Obama posing with a group of friends that called themselves the Choom Gang, Hawaii, c. 1979. 
Choom was slang for smoking marijuana. 

Robin Williams joins the stunning women of the Denver Broncos Pony Express as pro football's
first male cheerleader and prances before 70,000 cheering fans in Denver's Mile High Stadium. 

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan posing with clay soldiers 
at the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, 1984   

John Travolta takes Princess Diana for a dance in the White House, 1985