July 30
1619 - The first legislative assembly in North America convened in Jamestown, Virginia.
1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded.
1863 - American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Michigan.
1864 - During the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.
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.
1945 - The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the atomic bomb, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank within 15 minutes in shark-infested waters. It was one of the greatest naval losses of World War II, resulting in the deaths of nearly 900 men; 316 survived.
1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one).
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.
1975 - Former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing in suburban Detroit. Many suspect he was murdered, though his remains have never been found.
1980 - Israel’s Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
1980 - The Republic of Vanuatu, formerly known as the New Hebrides, gained independence from Britain and France.
2001 - Robert Mueller, President George W. Bush's choice to lead the FBI, promised the Senate Judiciary Committee that if confirmed, he would move forcefully to fix problems at the agency. (Mueller became FBI director on Sept. 4, 2001, a week before the 9/11 attacks.)
2002 - Expelled from Congress a week earlier, James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption.
2003 - President George W. Bush took personal responsibility for the first time for using discredited intelligence in his State of the Union address, but predicted he would be vindicated for going to war against Iraq.
2008 - Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was extradited to The Hague to face genocide charges after nearly 13 years on the run. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprisonment after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.)
2011 - NATO jets bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli, targeting a propaganda tool in Moammar Gadhafi’s fight against rebels.
2012 - More than 620 million people were without power in India, the worst power outage in world history.
2016 - Sixteeen people died when a hot air balloon caught fire and exploded after hitting high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture near Lockhart, Texas, about 60 miles northeast of San Antonio.
2020 - Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a pizza chain who became an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, died in Atlanta of complications from the coronavirus at the age of 74; he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was photographed not wearing a mask.
Birthdays
22 - Joey King (actor)
33 - Nico Tortorella (actor)
33 - Lara Jean Marshall (actress)
37 - Gina Rodriguez (actress)
39 - Martin Starr (actor)
39 - Yvonne Strahovski (actress)
40 - Hope Solo (soccer player)
41 - April Bowlby (actress)
44 - Jaime Pressly (actress)
44 - Misty May-Treanor (volleyball player)
47 - Hilary Swank (actress)
48 - Dean Edwards (actor/comedian)
50 - Christine Taylor (actress)
50 - Tom Green (actor)
51 - Christopher Nolan (director)
52 - Simon Baker (actor)
53 - Terry Crews (actor/TV host)
57 - Vivica A. Fox (actress)
58 - Lisa Kudrow (actress)
60 - Laurence Fishburne (actor)
63 - Richard Burgi (actor)
63 - Neal McCoy (country singer)
65 - Delta Burke (actress)
67 - Ken Olin (actor)
71 - Frank Stallone (actor)
74 - William Atherton (actor)
74 - Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor/politician)
80 - Paul Anka (singer)
87 - Bud Selig (former MLB commissioner)
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Today in Sports History - July 30
1908 - The first round-the-world automobile race, which had begun in New York in February, ended in Paris with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.
1916 - German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, New Jersey, killing about a dozen people.
1930 - Host nation Uruguay won soccer's inaugural World Cup with a 4-2 victory over Argentina in Montevideo.
1932 - The 10th modern Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
1966 - England defeated West Germany 4-2 in London to win the World Cup.
1968 - Ron Hansen of the Washington Senators made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years.
1995 - Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2001 - Lance Armstrong became the first American to win three consecutive Tours de France.
2002 - Lisa Leslie became the first woman to dunk in a professional basketball game.
2020 - The NBA season resumed for 22 teams inside a “bubble” at Walt Disney World in Florida, with no fans in attendance and with strict health and safety protocols in effect.
1619 - The first legislative assembly in North America convened in Jamestown, Virginia.
1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded.
1863 - American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Michigan.
1864 - During the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.
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.
1945 - The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the atomic bomb, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank within 15 minutes in shark-infested waters. It was one of the greatest naval losses of World War II, resulting in the deaths of nearly 900 men; 316 survived.
1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one).
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.
1975 - Former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing in suburban Detroit. Many suspect he was murdered, though his remains have never been found.
1980 - Israel’s Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
1980 - The Republic of Vanuatu, formerly known as the New Hebrides, gained independence from Britain and France.
2001 - Robert Mueller, President George W. Bush's choice to lead the FBI, promised the Senate Judiciary Committee that if confirmed, he would move forcefully to fix problems at the agency. (Mueller became FBI director on Sept. 4, 2001, a week before the 9/11 attacks.)
2002 - Expelled from Congress a week earlier, James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption.
2003 - President George W. Bush took personal responsibility for the first time for using discredited intelligence in his State of the Union address, but predicted he would be vindicated for going to war against Iraq.
2008 - Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was extradited to The Hague to face genocide charges after nearly 13 years on the run. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprisonment after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.)
2011 - NATO jets bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli, targeting a propaganda tool in Moammar Gadhafi’s fight against rebels.
2012 - More than 620 million people were without power in India, the worst power outage in world history.
2016 - Sixteeen people died when a hot air balloon caught fire and exploded after hitting high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture near Lockhart, Texas, about 60 miles northeast of San Antonio.
2020 - Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a pizza chain who became an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, died in Atlanta of complications from the coronavirus at the age of 74; he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was photographed not wearing a mask.
Birthdays
22 - Joey King (actor)
33 - Nico Tortorella (actor)
33 - Lara Jean Marshall (actress)
37 - Gina Rodriguez (actress)
39 - Martin Starr (actor)
39 - Yvonne Strahovski (actress)
40 - Hope Solo (soccer player)
41 - April Bowlby (actress)
44 - Jaime Pressly (actress)
44 - Misty May-Treanor (volleyball player)
47 - Hilary Swank (actress)
48 - Dean Edwards (actor/comedian)
50 - Christine Taylor (actress)
50 - Tom Green (actor)
51 - Christopher Nolan (director)
52 - Simon Baker (actor)
53 - Terry Crews (actor/TV host)
57 - Vivica A. Fox (actress)
58 - Lisa Kudrow (actress)
60 - Laurence Fishburne (actor)
63 - Richard Burgi (actor)
63 - Neal McCoy (country singer)
65 - Delta Burke (actress)
67 - Ken Olin (actor)
71 - Frank Stallone (actor)
74 - William Atherton (actor)
74 - Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor/politician)
80 - Paul Anka (singer)
87 - Bud Selig (former MLB commissioner)
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Today in Sports History - July 30
1908 - The first round-the-world automobile race, which had begun in New York in February, ended in Paris with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.
1916 - German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, New Jersey, killing about a dozen people.
1930 - Host nation Uruguay won soccer's inaugural World Cup with a 4-2 victory over Argentina in Montevideo.
1932 - The 10th modern Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
1966 - England defeated West Germany 4-2 in London to win the World Cup.
1968 - Ron Hansen of the Washington Senators made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years.
1995 - Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2001 - Lance Armstrong became the first American to win three consecutive Tours de France.
2002 - Lisa Leslie became the first woman to dunk in a professional basketball game.
2020 - The NBA season resumed for 22 teams inside a “bubble” at Walt Disney World in Florida, with no fans in attendance and with strict health and safety protocols in effect.
