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As the first woman to be honored with the award, Amelia Earhart Putnam receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis, left, in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 29, 1931. Governor James Rolph of California is on the right.

Shown on July 29, 1935, a Dallas beer parlor offered "all the beer you can drink" for 60 cents an hour. There were plenty of takers, but the proprietor said none had beaten him. The drinker would have to consume more than nine pints an hour to show a profit.

U.S. Marines wade through water and mud of flooded rice paddies during an assault on Viet Cong positions at the village of Duc An, July 29, 1965.

American stage and film actress Betty Davis, caught in languid pose on July 29, 1937.

These huge piles of aluminum pots and pans were contributed by English housewives to be melted down into metal for British fighting planes. Workers sorting the material, July 29, 1940. The offerings were in response to Lord Beaverbrook聮s appeal to the women of England.

Chungking聮s water is a commodity on sale at certain distribution centers. Here, a line of coolies wait to fill their wooden tubs, carried in old-time milkmaid fashion, slung from a shoulder strut in China, July 29, 1944.

A general view of the King David hotel, Jerusalem, as sappers set off a charge to explode away from the main part of the hotel, while carrying out demolition work, July 29, 1946 - a week after the bomb outrage.

Rescue workers search a trailer at Spring Creek Trailer Park in Fort Collins, Colo., on Tuesday, July 29, 1997, where a flash flood killed at least five people early Tuesday morning. At least 20 others are still missing.

At a beauty contest to select the nation聮s Queen of Height during the first national convention of Tall People聮s Clubs in New York on July 29, 1949, little Charlie Young, only three feet, eleven inches tall, acting as judge, had a tough time making up his mind for the choice. The national minimum height requirement for women members is 5 feet 10 inches, and for men, 6 feet.

Crews demolish the former home of O.J. Simpson, Wednesday, July 29, 1998, in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Simpson was evicted last year from the 6,200-square foot mansion. The investment banker who paid nearly $4 million for the Rockingham Avenue estate wants to build a new house on the site.

Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, and challenger, Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson, can hold no secrets from doctors examining them before their title bout later in the day at New York聮s Polo Grounds on July 29, 1957. At the examining room in winter garden theatre, a doctor checks Patterson聮s ear. Jackson, having his temperature checked, shushes a bystander.

This is a photo of 2 1/2 year-old Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, playing with the neighbor's dog in Hyannis Port, Mass., on July 29, 1960.

Navy crewmen try to put out a fire aboard the USS Forrestal in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of Vietnam, July 29, 1967, after an F-4 Phantom accidentally fired a zuni rocket into an A-4 Skyhawk which caused massive explosions on the aft end of the flight deck. This tragic accidental launch damaged the aircraft and claimed the lives of 134 crewmen.

Blues/rock singer Janis Joplin performs at the Newport Folk Festival with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, July 29, 1968.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the 7-foot-3 all star center of the Los Angeles Lakers, is shown during an interview in New York City, Tuesday, July 29, 1975. Abdul-Jabbar is in New York to promote the 21st Century Invitational basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden in August.

Bruce Jenner of San Jose, Calif., lets go of the shot put July 29, 1976 to place second in the event, part of the decathlon competition.

Workers help guide a piece of wreckage from TWA Flight 800 onto a flatbed truck at Shinnecock Coast Guard Station in Hampton Bays, N.Y., Monday, July 29, 1996. The Boeing 747 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on July 17 on a flight from New York to Paris.

A federal soldier passes by burning shacks that fleeing Bonus March veterans abandoned, at Camp Marks, on the Anacostia Flats in Washington, D.C., July 29, 1932. This was the fourth veterans' camp to be burned.

Greg Berman, 12, of Santa Barbara, Calif. sits at computer console at California Computer Camp near Santa Barbara on July 29, 1980. The camp is a place where, its founder and President Denison Bollay says children are prepared ?for what it?s going be like a decade from now? in a world increasingly reliant upon computers.

Britain's Prince Charles kisses his bride, the former Diana Spencer, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, after their wedding on July 29, 1981.

Two-year-old Avdi Noor Mohamed, cries as he is held by his father at a refugee camp in Baidoa, Somalia , July 29, 1992, near the Somali border with Kenya. The child聮s mother starved to death a few days earlier. The U.N. special representative to Somalia said that he plans to begin an emergency food airlift within days to the war-ravaged nation, where 1.5 million people are starving.

Michael Johnson of the United States (2370) celebrates after winning the gold medal in the men's 400 meters as Roger Black of Great Britain (1469), Alvin Harrison of the United States (2357) and Davis Kamoga of Uganda react at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Monday, July 29, 1996.