From iconic moments to lesser known captures, This Week in History is a look at pictures from The Associated Press archive taken during the week of October 8 - 14.
Nuns in Tokyo | Oct. 8, 1946
The group before and after the ceremony, the two nuns on the left have taken their final vows, the other in the group in their kimonos will, after an 18 month period of preparation be ready to take their final vows as nuns in Tokyo, Japan on Oct. 8, 1946. (AP Photo/C. P. Gorry)
Kabul Caravan | Oct. 8, 1949
A caravan of mules and camels cross the high, winding trails of the Lataband Pass in Afghanistan on the way to Kabul, Oct. 8, 1949. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)
Fitness Capitol | Oct. 8, 1963
Ann Bitters of New York demonstrates exercises she calls "Body Rhythms" for legislators during a Capitol hearing by the Legislative Committee on Sports and Physical Fitness, in Albany, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1963. The legislator at left is Assemblyman Stephen R. Greco (D-Erie County). At center is Assemblyman Hayward R. Plumadore (R-Franklin County), committee chairman. (AP Photo/Arthur Z. Brooks)
Jordan Training | Oct. 8, 1968
Two young Palestinian refugees, one holding an automatic weapon, the other a rifle, are pictured undergoing training at an Arab refugee training ground in the hills of Jordan, Oct. 8, 1968 . (AP Photo)
US Dump Haiti | Oct. 8, 1994
Smoke rises in the background at an American military garbage dump in Port-au-Prince, Oct. 8, 1994. Haitian scavengers battle each other for scraps of leftover food and other discarded by the American military. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Police Youth | Oct. 9, 1974
Members of Boston Police tactical force take an African American youth into custody on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1974 in Boston during a disturbance in the Roxbury section. Around 200 African American youths roamed through a three-square-block area, throwing stones. (AP Photo)
Iran Rally | Oct. 9, 1978
View of a massive demonstration against the Shah of Iran in downtown Tehran, Iran, Oct. 9, 1978. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)
Rivers & Friends | Oct. 9, 1986
Performers on the first episode of 'The Late Show' pose with star Joan Rivers, Oct. 9, 1986. From left: Elton John, Joan Rivers, Cher, and Pee Wee Herman. (AP Photo/Galbraith)
Skydiving Accident | Oct. 9, 1986
Las Vegas homicide detectives look at the body of a man who jumped 10,000 feet to his death in an apparent stunt that went awry in Las Vegas, Oct. 9, 1986. The man was clad in a white dinner jacket that ended up over his head as he apparently tried to get a lightweight parachute deployed. (AP Photo/Scott Henry)
Aleppo Bazaar | Oct. 9, 1987
Trade goes on as it has for centuries at the 14th century bazaar in Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 9, 1987. (AP Photo/H. L. Koundakjian)
MSG | Oct. 10, 1967
Cylindrical building in the foreground is the new Madison Square Garden, the fourth edifice to bear the name, which is rising over bustling Penn Station in New York, Oct. 10, 1967. Office building is part of the complex rising on the site of the old station between 31st and 33rd Streets and going from Seventh to Eighth Avenues in Manhattan. The view is looking east with the Empire State Building in the background. The new Garden is scheduled to open in 1968. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)
Bernstein | Oct. 10, 1969
Leonard Bernstein wearing sunglasses and Isaac Stern with the violin, look over the set and check their stage positions for their appearance on a TV special benefit for Mayor Lindsay, Oct. 10, 1969. (AP Photo)
Veteran Hospitals | Oct. 10, 1971
A patient at the Ferry Point Psychiatric Hospital tries their luck at the hospital's air conditioned bowling alley, Oct. 10, 1971. (AP Photo)
Chavez & Actresses | Oct. 10, 1976
Surrounded by two actresses, Valerie Harper, left, and Louise Fletcher, United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez arrives at a fundraising benefit for Proposition 14 in Los Angeles, Oct. 10, 1976. The Proposition would allow union organizers to enter private property to recruit membership and put into law the Agriculture Labor Relations Board. (AP Photo/George Brich)
Indigenous Run | Oct. 10, 1992
A group of about 50 mostly North American indigenous people runs towards their goal - the pyramids of Teotichuacan in Mexico, Oct. 10, 1992. The runners, one from as far away as Alaska, will meet a similar group from South America at the famed Pyramid of the Sun in a protest of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landfall in the Americas. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)
John XXIII | Oct. 11, 1962
Thousands of faithful Catholics carry torches in a big procession in St. Peter's Square the evening of Oct. 11, 1962, while thousands of onlookers stood by, all waiting for Pope John XXIII to appear at the window of his private apartment in the Vatican Palace, and impart his blessing upon them. (AP Photo/Girolamo Di Majo)
Grace in Paris | Oct. 11, 1962
Princess Grace of Monaco in Paris on Oct. 11, 1962 whilst at the foreign ministry, negotiations were going on between France and Monaco concerning the application of the principle of tax payment to France by societies and persons, not nationals of Monaco, owning property in the principality. (AP Photo/H. Babout)
AIDS Protest | Oct. 11, 1988
Police begin arresting protestors outside the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, Oct. 11, 1988. They were protesting the federal government's response to the AIDS crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Pearls Japan | Oct. 12, 1949
A Japanese girl carefully sorts the cultured pearls raised on Kokichi Mikimoto’s pearl farm near the tip of Japan’s Ise peninsula on Oct. 12, 1949. They’re sorted according to color and size as well as shape. Hundreds of girls do this work as well as drilling holes through the pearls and stringing them into graduated strands. (AP Photo)
Meredith Lunch | Oct. 12, 1962
Three unidentified members of the University of Mississippi faculty join African American James H. Meredith for coffee after lunch in the Ole Miss cafeteria in Oxford, Miss., on Oct. 12, 1962. They refused to give their names. In background is Justice Department attorney Bud Sather, far right, talking to cafeteria manager Wood Bounds. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)
Missing Children | Oct. 12, 1967
Lt. James Ludow, of Park Police Station on the edge of the Haight-Ashbury district, adds another face to the bulletin board of missing children, Oct. 12, 1967, San Francisco, Calif. The photos are sent in by parents from all over the country. During the first six months of 1967, 748 juvenile runaways were picked up by police; despite the reports of at the hippie colony is disintegrating. Patrolman Leo Maguire, not shown, says instead of staying home and studying the three Rs, these kids come to Height-Ashbury and study the three Ds; dope, disease and despair. (AP Photo/Robert W. Klein)
Ireland Troubles | Oct. 12, 1969
A wrecked car in a desolated Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland on Oct. 12, 1969, following a night of rioting in which three people were killed. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)
Roy Rogers | Oct. 13, 1943
Roy Rogers, featured performer of the rodeo, stunts with his horse Trigger for the benefit of hospital patients at the New York Bellevue Hospital on Oct. 13, 1943. Other members of the rodeo were featured in the show. (AP Photo/John Lindsay)
Vietnam War | Oct. 13, 1963
First Lt. Joseph Burn, right, of Anniston Ala., sits inside the schoolhouse turned hospital for a day in AP Co Co, south Viet Nam, as villagers line up awaiting examination and treatment, Oct. 13, 1963. Lt. Burn heads three joint U.S. Vietnamese medical teams operating in the Mekong Delta area where the fighting against the Viet Cong communist Guerrillas is most active. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
Olympics Tokyo | Oct. 13, 1965
Gymnasts performing during the Olympics opening ceremony at the Tokyo National Stadium in Tokyo on Oct. 13, 1965. (AP Photo/MC)
Animal Farm | Oct. 13, 1970
The lady puppy on the left, no doubt wanted her picture to be taken first but the little lady on the right tried some upstaging which seems to have worked in Methuen on Oct. 13, 1970. Both are waiting for adoption in the Methuen Animal Farm of Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals. They are six to seven weeks old, and are of undetermined lineage. (AP Photo)
Thomas House | Oct. 13, 1991
Birds flying south for the winter flock to the roof of Clarence Thomas' house Alexandria, Virginia, Sunday, Oct. 13, 1991. The Senate Judiciary Committee spent the day hearing testimony on the allegations that Thomas sexually harassed his former aide Anita Hill. (AP Photo/Tracey Atlee)
Fall Foliage | Oct. 13, 1997
A make-believe scene in the yard of Tracy Freemer of DuBois, Pa., comically illustrates the plight of many Western Pennsylvania residents Monday afternoon, Oct. 13, 1997. The fall foliage has reached its peak in Pennsylvania and the leaves are rapidly falling. (AP Photo/The Courier-Express, Paul A. Wilson)
Detroit Car Show | Oct. 14, 1960
In this Oct. 14, 1960 photo, people visit the National Auto Show at Cobo Hall in Detroit. (AP Photo)
Halloween Warm-Up | Oct. 14, 1966
Comic strips come alive this Halloween as Batman, the Green Hornet, Superman and a host of other comic strip characters are getting geared up for a one-night stand Oct. 31. At least according to costume makers who say that the comics are providing most of the ideas for this year's kiddy getup. Here a group of small fries warm-up for the big night in Oakland, N. J., Oct. 14, 1966. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)
World Series | Oct. 14, 1979
Pittsburgh Pirates' Tim Foli (10) throws to first as Orioles' Doug DeCinces arrives at second base during the fifth inning of the fifth game of the World Series in Pittsburgh, Oct. 14, 1979. (AP Photo)
Detroit | Oct. 14, 1984
In this Oct. 14, 1984 photo, a crowd attempts to topple a damaged taxi car outside Detroit's Tiger Stadium after the Detroit Tigers defeated the San Diego Padres to win the 1984 World Series baseball championship. (AP Photo)
Madonna & Gaultier | Oct. 14, 1994
Pop star Madonna smiles with French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier at the end of Gaultier's 1995 spring-summer ready-to-wear fashion collection in Paris, Oct. 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
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