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March 2, 2005

Duke Ellington
Hideyuki Mihashi ©Stars and Stripes

Tokyo, January 6, 1972: Famed jazz musician Duke Ellington meets the press at a Tokyo hotel at the start of his band's 12-day tour of Japan. Ellington, 72, said he had no plans to retire, noting that "when you look out and see 10,000 people who sit for four hours and don't move, even when we're closing with a quiet piano number, it's a very good feeling."
 
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Past photos of the day

March, 2005
March 1, 2005: U.S. Marine in Vietnam finally gets a chance to shave, 1965

February, 2005
February 28, 2005: Baseball great Joe DiMaggio in Tokyo, 1966
February 27, 2005: John McEnroe reacts to a mistake on the court, 1982
February 26, 2005: Chow line for Berlin-bound soldiers, 1962
February 25, 2005: Country music star Johnny Cash in Frankfurt, 1977
February 24, 2005: Retired Gen. Lucius Clay finishes his work in Berlin, 1962
February 23, 2005: Walking the dog at Stonehenge, 1967
February 22, 2005: Disc jockey Wolfman Jack, 1979
February 21, 2005: Sophia Loren and husband Carlo Ponti arrive in Frankfurt, 1960
February 20, 2005: Lassie meets the press in Tokyo, 1979
February 19, 2005: Actress Joey Heatherton dances for the troops in Vietnam, 1966
February 18, 2005: Danny Kaye, comedian and poster boy, 1952
February 17, 2005: Secretary of State George C. Marshall at a U.N. meeting, 1948
February 16, 2005: Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1991
February 15, 2005: World pole vault record holder Sergei Bubka takes off, 1992
February 14, 2005: U.S. and S. Vietnamese leaders convene on Guam for summit meeting, 1967
February 13, 2005: "Colonel Maggie," Martha Raye, visits a Navy ship in Vietnam, 1965
February 12, 2005: Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats, onstage in Tokyo, 1980
February 11, 2005: U.S. hockey players celebrate a goal against Sweden at the Olympics, 1980
February 10, 2005: President Nixon visits Berlin, 1969
February 9, 2005: John Denver performs in Tokyo, 1981
February 8, 2005: "Buffalo Bob" Smith of TV's Howdy Doody Show, 1972
February 7, 2005: Bob Hayes of the Dallas Cowboys arrives in Japan for two exhibition games, 1974
February 6, 2005: Ambassador George F. Kennan on his way back from Moscow, 1952
February 5, 2005: Rock guitarist Peter Frampton in Tokyo, 1978
February 4, 2005: North Korean soldier glares across the border at the DMZ, 1983
February 3, 2005: Waiting out a rainstorm in South Vietnam, 1967
February 2, 2005: Singer-actress Dolly Parton in Tokyo, 1979
February 1, 2005: Ox-drawn cart on a German road, 1951

January, 2005
January 31, 2005: Air Force fighter ace Capt. Richard S. Ritchie, 1972
January 30, 2005: Britain's Prince Philip reviews Canadian forces in Germany, 1973
January 29, 2005: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1966
January 28, 2005: Sitarist Ravi Shankar backstage in Frankfurt, 1969
January 27, 2005: Crane pulls a tank out of the Neckar River, 1982
January 26, 2005: Actor Cesar Romero in Madrid, 1962
January 25, 2005: Siesta time in Saigon, 1970
January 24, 2005: President Kennedy in Paris, 1961
January 23, 2005: The Police in concert in Tokyo, 1980
January 22, 2005: Audrey Hepburn at SHAPE headquarters near Paris, 1965
January 21, 2005: Recently-retired NBA star Elvin Hayes visits Germany, 1984
January 20, 2005: Viet Cong prisoner gets a drink of water from a South Vietnamese marine, 1967
January 19, 2005: Rainy season in Libya, 1955
January 18, 2005: Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young in Tokyo, 1986
January 17, 2005: Gemini 8 astronauts arrive on Okinawa after emergency landing, 1966
January 16, 2005: Admirals Morrison and Bringle with South Korea's prime minister, 1968
January 15, 2005: Nonchalant passenger on a motor scooter in Rome, 1960
January 14, 2005: Vice President Spiro Agnew at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, S. Vietnam, 1970
January 13, 2005: Singer Freddie Mercury of Queen onstage in Germany, 1982
January 12, 2005: Soccer great Pele of the New York Cosmos on his farewell tour in Japan, 1977
January 11, 2005: Chinook helicopter hauls a rocket launcher over the autobahn, 1979
January 10, 2005: Gen. Chuck Yeager with people who hid him from Germans during WWII, 1970
January 9, 2005: Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, 1949
January 8, 2005: Bridge to nowhere in Germany, 1967
January 7, 2005: Golfing great Jack Nicklaus plays at Frankfurt, 1980
January 6, 2005: Sumo wrestlers visit Yokota school, 1986
January 5, 2005: Neil Diamond in concert at Frankfurt, 1971
January 4, 2005: Big Ben under wraps for renovations, 1984
January 3, 2005: On the road with Bob Hope in the Far East, 1965
January 2, 2005: New Year's baby at Wiesbaden, Germany, 1951
January 1, 2005: Bono, during U2's Zooropa tour, 1993

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