Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
May 10, 2004
Tim Wehr ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, June 26, 1976: Antonio Inoki challenges Muhammad Ali to get down on the mat during an exhibition (billed as the "World Martial Arts Championship") between the heavyweight boxing champ and the Brazilian-Japanese pro wrestler at the Budokan Hall. The match, which consisted mostly of Inoki lying on the mat attenpting to deliver kicks to the thigh, wasn't exactly a bright spot on Ali's record. One Stripes reporter called it a farce, while another said "the best thing that can be said about it was that it ended." Ali was paid about six million dollars and Inoki three million; Angelo Dundee, Ali's trainer, said beforehand that he was "gonna grab the money and run like a thief in the night."
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Past photos of the day
May,
2004
May
9, 2004: ABBA, onstage at Tokyo's Budokan Hall, 1980
May
8, 2004: Camel market in Saudi Arabia, 1991
May
7, 2004: Chiang Kai-shek visits the carrier Enterprise, 1966 (With story and additional photos)
May
6, 2004: A-1E Skyraiders over Vietnam, 1964 (With additional photos)
May
5, 2004: Country music stars Chet Atkins and Skeeter Davis in Tokyo,
1965 (With additional photos)
May
4, 2004: Vice President Spiro Agnew arrives in Japan, 1972 (With stories)
May
3, 2004: Filming of "Up from the Beach" in Normandy, 1964 (With stories and additional photos)
May
2, 2004: Reggae great Bob Marley performs in Tokyo, 1979 (With additional photos)
May 1, 2004: Adm. John S. McCain Jr., commander in chief of the U.S.
Pacific Command, 1969
April,
2004
April
30, 2004: President Johnson mingles with the crowd in Seoul, 1966 (With story)
April
29, 2004: Meeting at Korean DMZ after four soldiers die in ambush, 1968 (With stories)
April
28, 2004: A day in the life of a Hawk missile crew in Germany, 1964 (With story and additional photos)
April
27, 2004: S. Korean villagers' first look at television, compliments of
LBJ, 1967 (With story)
April
26, 2004: Soldier gets some rest at Landing Zone Jamie in Vietnam, 1969 (With additional photos)
April
25, 2004: MAD magazine founder and publisher William M. Gaines, 1984 (With story)
April
24, 2004: Composer Henry Mancini, 1964 (With story)
April
23, 2004: Actor Kirk Douglas in Tokyo, 1964 (With stories)
April
22, 2004:
Supply drop during Operation Junction City in Vietnam, 1967 (With story)
April
21, 2004:
The Dalai Lama opens an exhibit of Tibetan art in Tokyo, 1967 (With story)
April
20, 2004:
Actor Mel Gibson, promoting his latest "Mad Max" movie, 1985 (With story)
April 19, 2004:
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a Tokyo motorcade, 1975 (With story)
April 18, 2004:
"Woody Woodpecker" cartoonist Walter Lantz visits a school, 1969 (With story)
April 17, 2004:
Pro-American demonstrators in Manila, 1966
April 16, 2004:
Vice President Dan Quayle plays basketball at Yokota, 1989 (With story)
April 15, 2004: Home run champions Hank Aaron and Sadaharu Oh, 1974 (With story)
April
14, 2004: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu plays the drums,
1969 (With story)
April
13, 2004: A boy's life at Checkpoint Charlie, 1963 (With story and additional photos)
April
12, 2004: Behind the scenes with Bob Hope in Vietnam, 1964 (With story and additional photos)
April
11, 2004: Arnold Palmer competes in a golf tournament in Japan, 1971 (With additional photos)
April
10, 2004: Montagnard children in Vietnam, 1968
April
9, 2004: Col. Levi Chase completes his 500th fighter mission, 1966 (With story)
April
8, 2004: Rene Gagnon, one of the Iwo Jima flag-raisers, returns to Mt.
Suribachi, 1965 (With story)
April
7, 2004: Bill Cosby and Robert Culp take a break from I Spy
filming, 1965 (With story)
April
6, 2004: Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos with Japan's Emperor Hirohito, 1966 (With story)
April
5, 2004: Billy Mills wins the 10,000 at the Tokyo Olympics, 1964 (With stories and additional photos)
April
4, 2004: Eleanor Roosevelt on her way to the Soviet Union, 1957
April
3, 2004: British fashion model Twiggy in Tokyo, 1967
April
2, 2004: Pope John Paul II at Mainz, Germany, 1980 (With story and additional photos)
April 1, 2004: Judy Garland, in Germany to campaign for JFK, 1960 (With story)
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