July 9 1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.

July 10 1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.

July 10 1973 – The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

July 11 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.

Soba noodles deliveryman in Tokyo, 1935.

Akbat station in the center of Tel Aviv in the 1950s

July 11 1936 – The Triborough Bridge (Now known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) in New York City is opened to traffic.

Donald Trump playing baseball at New York Military Academy, 1962.

Policewomen at work in Ramat Gan, Israel, 1965.

July 12 1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.

July 13 1956 – The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.

July 14 1881 – American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the Maxwell House at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Jul 14 1983 – Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.

July 16, 1945 – The United States detonates the world’s first plutonium-based nuclear weapon during the Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, marking the beginning of the Atomic Age. The test was part of the secret Manhattan Project.

July 17 1902 – Willis Carrier invents the world's first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.

July 17 1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

July 21 1969 – Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.

Hulk Hogan on the cover of the January 1986 edition of the magazine "Pro Wrestling Illustrated".

Jews arriving at Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland, May 1944. Most were selected to go to the gas chambers.

August 19 1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.