The History of Today
July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of the
year. And now taking look back at some of the things that took place not
so far ago
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1998 - “Buffalo Bob” Smith, the cowboy-suited host of
“The Howdy Doody Show,” died at age 80. |
1619 - The first representative assembly in America convened
in Jamestown, Va.
1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded.
1792 - The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise" by Claude
Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.
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1863 - American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn
Township, Mich. |
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1975 - Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa
disappeared in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his
remains have never been found. |
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating
a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill
into law.
1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin
landed on the moon.
1996 - Actress Claudette Colbert died at age 92.
2002 - Expelled from Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant
James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for
corruption.
2002 - WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks
became the first woman to dunk in a professional game during her team's
82-73 loss to the Miami Sol.
2003 - Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis
Presley, died at age 80.
2007 - Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman died at age 87.
2007 - Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh died at age 75.
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key
components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian,
was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men
survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
SOURCE: The Associated Press
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