Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
October 3, 2003
Dave Didio ©Stars and Stripes
Berlin, June 22, 1990: Dignitaries from the nations that were key players in the postwar saga of Berlin pose for photos as Checkpoint Charlie, the key border crossing between the eastern and western portions of the divided city, is lifted away. In front, from left to right, are British Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd, U.S. Maj. Gen. Raymond E. Haddock, U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III, French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
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Past photos of the day
October, 2003
October 2, 2003: Ex-POWs head home after their release from North Vietnam, 1973 (With stories)
October 1, 2003: President Johnson arrives in Manila for a summit meeting (With stories)
September, 2003
September 30,
2003: Blues legend B.B. King, onstage in Frankfurt, 1993 (With stories)
September
29, 2003: Battalion Family Day at Bamberg, Germany (With story and additional photos)
September 28,
2003: Frank Sinatra stops in Frankfurt on the way home from Munich (With story)
September 27,
2003: Prince Charles and Princess Diana after the wedding ceremony, 1981 (With story)
September 26,
2003: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain at the Rhein Rock Fest, 1991 (With story)
September 25,
2003: Fighting a Rhine River flood, 1955
September 24,
2003: Singer-activist Harry Belafonte, 1988 (With story)
September 23,
2003: Operation Birmingham, Vietnam, 1966 (With stories and additional photos)
September 22,
2003: Gen. Colin Powell watches a Ramstein runway-repair exercise, 1989 (With story)
September 21,
2003: Communists rally in Berlin, 1948 (With story)
September 20,
2003: Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 1974 (With story)
September 19,
2003: Woody Allen brings his jazz band to Frankfurt, 1996 (With story)
September 18,
2003: Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, 1992 (With stories)
September 17,
2003: Johnny Cash poses backstage at Frankfurt, 1988 (With story)
September
16, 2003: Seagoing wagon train to Neuwerk, Germany, 1960 (With story and additional photos)
September 15,
2003: Country music star and recording industry executive Roy Acuff, 1964 (With stories)
September 14,
2003: Comedian Red Skelton arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With story)
September 13,
2003: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy promote education, 1948
September 12,
2003: Bing Crosby with the troops in Germany, 1953 (With story)
September 11,
2003: Life at Patrol Base Diamond II in Vietnam, 1969 (With story and additional photos)
September 10,
2003: Eleanor Roosevelt tours Stuttgart, 1948 (With story)
September 9,
2003: U.S. servicemembers back in Germany after first Gulf War, 1991 (With story)
September 8,
2003: Billie Holiday headlines a Frankfurt jazz show, 1954 (With story and additional photos)
September 7,
2003: Actor Raymond Burr at the Korean DMZ, 1963 (With stories)
September 6,
2003: Adlai Stevenson arrives in Frankfurt, 1953 (With story)
September 5,
2003: Air Force training exercise over Spain, 1961 (With story and additional photos)
September 4,
2003: Supply trucks line up at the start of the Berlin airlift, 1948 (With story)
September 3,
2003: Josephine Baker and her family in France, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
September 2,
2003: Former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis arrives in Germany (With story)
September 1,
2003: Labor leader Walter Reuther, 1953 (With story)
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