July 30
July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. Events1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shot two Iroquois chiefs to death. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years. 1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. 1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. 1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States. 1825 - Malden Island discovered. 1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.1930 - In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup. 1932 - The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California. 1945 - World War II: Japanese warships sink the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst single loss in the history of the United States Navy. 1956 - A Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto. 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. 1966 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2. 1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders. 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 lands on the Moon. 1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 1621974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court. 1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.2004 - A gasblast kills 16 people in Belgium after an apocalyptical explosion.
Births1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)1855 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist 1857 - Thorstein Veblen, economist (d. 1929)1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)1889 - Franz Masereel, painter and graphic artist (d. 1972)1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, physicist and inventor (d. 1982)1890 - Casey Stengel, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1975)1898 - Henry Moore, sculptor (d. 1986)1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (d. 1993)1914 - Béatrix Beck, writer1914 - Lord Killanin, former IOC president (d. 1999)1921 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)1929 - Werner Tübke, painter1930 - Thomas Sowell, economist1934 - Bud Selig, baseball team owner and commissioner1936 - Buddy Guy, guitarist, singer1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, film director1941 - Paul Anka, singer and composer1945 - David Sanborn, musician, Grammy Award winner1946 - Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (d. 1994)1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, 38th Governor of California1947 - William Atherton, American actor1948 - Jean Reno, actor1956 - Delta Burke, actress1956 - Anita Hill, American law professor, author1958 - Kate Bush, singer1961 - Laurence Fishburne, actor1963 - Lisa Kudrow, actress1964 - Vivica A. Fox, actress1971 - Tom Green, comedian, actor1974 - Hilary Swank, Academy Award winning actress1975 - Graham Nicholls, British artist1981 - Nicky Hayden, American Motorcycle Racer
Deaths578 - Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa 1715 - Nahum Tate, poet (b. 1652)1718 - William Penn, founded the Province of Pennsylvania1771 - Thomas Gray, poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)1918 - Joyce Kilmer, poet1947 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia1975 - James Blish, science fiction author1975 (date of disappearance) - Jimmy Hoffa, labor leader1983 - Lynn Fontanne, actress1996 - Claudette Colbert, actress2003 - Sam Phillips, record producer
Holidays and observancesVanuatu - Independence DayInternational Bog DaySysadmin Appreciation Day External links BBC: On This Day
July 29 - July 31 - June 30 - August 30 -- listing of all days
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