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A team of oxen are used to draw a beer wagon through the streets of Berlin on July 31, 1945, to help overcome transportation difficulties in the German capital arising from Allied air raids on the city before it fell.

During the invasion of Sicily through Allied forces, an American cargo ship, loaded with ammunition, explodes after being hit by a bomb from a German plane off Gela, on the southern coast of Sicily, on July 31, 1943.

Perez Prado, inventor of the Mambo, returned to the United States July 31, 1958. He is shown in New York, where he was to fulfill night club and televsion appearances. His latest RCA-Victor release "Patricia" was the number one record hit at the time nationwide.31.07.1958

This is a general view of the new camp of the bonus-seeking veterans' camp at Johnstown, Pa., July 31, 1932 when more than 3,000 veterans, their wives and children were encamped there. At the same time efforts were being made toward establishing a permanent camp in Maryland by Commander Walter Waters. (AP Photo)

The Bee Gees, from left, Robin, Barry and Maurice Gibb, attend a party following the Hollywood premiere of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" on July 31, 1978. The brothers are holding sparkling papier-mache hearts given as party favors.

AIDS VICTIM BARRED FROM SCHOOL - Thirteen-year-old Ryan White has been barred from attending middle school after learning he had contracted AIDS during treatment for hemophilia. Ryan sits in his room at home Wednesday, July 31, 1985.

Almost an entire wall of a house in Peking lies in a heap on the sidewalk, July 31, 1976, after a severe earthquake which rocked the Chinese capital on Wednesday.

U.S. Decathlon gold medal winner Bruce Jenner and his wife, Chrystie, pose with their pet dog , Bertha outside their Montreal Hotel on Saturday, July 31, 1976 in Montereal.

Clint Eastwood, who's to take over in the fall as the No. 1 star of television's "Rawhide" after a long time as co-star, stops for coffee during filming in Hollywood, July, 31, 1965. Eastwood, first spotted as a potential cowboy-type actor when he was a GI, recently became a top star in Italy thanks to his role in a European film widely exhibited in Italian movie houses.

An electronic computer, called a DataTron, is fed a punched paper tap containing instructions on music composition. The idea is based on mathematical expression of melody - written laws that date back to Bach and Mozart. Technical specialist Douglas Bolitho and Dr. Martin Klein, of Pasadena, Cal., coupled the idea to electronics to come up with tunes by the basketsful. Bolitho and Klein said that the work is, "an experiment of mathematical importance only," and that, "no computer will ever posess the esthetic gifts which are responsible for art." So you see, there's no need for budding young composers to worry. Douglas Bolitho, who helped develop the mathematical program which instructs the computer, starts the machine writing songs, July 31, 1956. (AP Photo)

Thousands of sampans and junks are packed like sardines at Aberdeen sampan harbor on Hong Kong island. Many of these boats are not seaworthy and are used as homes in a land-hungry city and island where practically every square inch of area is used for living quarters, July 31, 1962. (AP Photo)

A street in the central part of Berlin on July 31, 1945, is covered in smoke from fires started by fire bombs dropped on the German capital by Allied planes, prior to the fall of the city. (AP Photo)

There聮s quite a trick about shooting a fish with a bow and arrow, a sport now popular off Santa Catalina, California on July 31, 1940. A beginner should remember that an arrow shot down straight into the water will go straight; an arrow shot at an angel away from the archer will rise, due to the buoyancy of the arrow and the drag of the attached line. (AP Photo)

Henry Ford is seen on the Quadricycle, the first automobile he ever built in Dearborn, Mich., 1896. (AP Photo)

**Eds Note: Nudity** One of the many different groups of natives in New Guinea is the 聯Saltwater聰 tribe, so-called because in lives at the beach or in houses built on stilts in the water off the shore. They live chiefly on fruit gathered from their gardens by the women and on fish caught by the men on the coral reefs. These photos were made in the Hood Point village on the south coast of New Guinea through the courtesy of Rev. Harold James Edward Short, missionary, who is mentor to the 800 natives. A family is shown preparing dinner inside a hut in New Guinea on July 31, 1943. (AP Photo/Rev. Harold James Edward Short)