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07-30-2010, 05:12 AM
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This Date in History - July 30th
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* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
* 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague.
* 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
* 1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. 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.
* 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
* 1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
* 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
* 1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
* 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
* 1825 – Malden Island is discovered.
* 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
* 1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
* 1866 – New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
* 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
* 1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
* 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
* 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short
* 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
* 1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
* 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.
* 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
* 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
* 1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets killed and fifty-four injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
* 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
* 1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
* 1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
* 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
* 1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
* 1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
* 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
* 2006 – World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
* 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre.
* 2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.
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This Date in History - July 30th
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* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
* 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague.
* 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
* 1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. 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.
* 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
* 1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
* 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
* 1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
* 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
* 1825 – Malden Island is discovered.
* 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
* 1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
* 1866 – New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
* 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
* 1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
* 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
* 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short
* 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
* 1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
* 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.
* 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
* 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
* 1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets killed and fifty-four injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
* 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
* 1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
* 1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
* 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
* 1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
* 1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
* 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
* 2006 – World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
* 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre.
* 2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.
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