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Events [ ] 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 ), 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 , 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 is founded.1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States .1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.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.1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.1930 - In Montevideo , Uruguay win the first Football World Cup .1932 - Olympic Games : The Games of the X Olympiad open in Los Angeles .1932 - Walt Disney 's Flowers and Trees Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor , premieres.
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 .1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.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 with U.S. military commanders.1971 - Apollo program : Apollo 15 Mission - David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon 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 .1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills , a suburb of Detroit , at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales , Australia .2002 - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush .
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 BBC Two . The show had aired for 42 years.2006 - At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre .
2007 - John Brumby becomes Premier of Victoria following the resignation of Steve Bracks .Births [ ] 1511 - Giorgio Vasari , Italian painter and architect (d. 1574 )1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici (d. 1609 )1641 - Regnier de Graaf , Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673 )1751 - Maria Anna Mozart , Austrian musician (d. 1829 )1763 - Samuel Rogers , English author (d. 1855 )1818 - Emily Brontë , English novelist (d. 1848 )1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens , German industrialist (d. 1919 )1857 - Thorstein Veblen , American economist (d. 1929 )1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn , English humanitarian (d. 1939 )1863 - Henry Ford , American industrialist (d. 1947 )1872 - Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955 )1881 - Smedley Butler , American Marine general (d. 1940 )1889 - Vladimir Zworykin , Russian physicist (d. 1982 )
1890 - Casey Stengel , American baseball manager (d. 1975 )1893 - Fatima Jinnah , Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967 )1895 - Wanda Hawley , American actress (d. 1963 )1898 - Henry Moore , English sculptor (d. 1986 )1899 - Gerald Moore , English pianist (d. 1987 )1901 - Alfred Lépine , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955 )1904 - Salvador Novo , Mexican writer (d. 1974 )1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson , English historian (d. 1993 )1910 - Edgar de Evia , American photographer (d. 2003 )1914 - Lord Killanin , Irish IOC president (d. 1999 )1916 - Dick Wilson , American actor (d. 2007 )1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle , half-sister of Marilyn Monroe 1921 - Grant Johannesen , American pianist (d. 2005 )1922 - Henry W. Bloch , American co-founder of H&R Block 1925 - Alexander Trocchi , Scottish writer (d. 1984 )1925 - Jacques Sernas , French actor
1926 - Christine McGuire , American singer (The McGuire Sisters )1927 - Victor Wong , American actor (d. 2001 )1928 - Eunice Muñoz , Portuguese actress1928 - Joe Nuxhall , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007 )
1929 - Sid Krofft , Canadian children's television producer1933 - Edd Byrnes , American actor1934 - Bud Selig , American Commissioner of Baseball 1935 - Ted Rogers , English comedian and game show host (d. 2001 )1936 - Buddy Guy , American guitarist and singer1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 - Hervé de Charette , French politician1939 - Peter Bogdanovich , American film director1939 - Eleanor Smeal , American feminist
1940 - Pat Schroeder , American politician1940 - Clive Sinclair , English entrepreneur and inventor
1941 - Paul Anka , Canadian singer and composer1943 - Henri-François Gautrin , Quebec politician1945 - David Sanborn , American saxophonist1946 - Neil Bonnett , American race car driver (d. 1994 )1947 - William Atherton , American actor1947 - Jonathan Mann , AIDS activist (d. 1998 )
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger , Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
1948 - Jean Reno , Moroccan-born French actor1949 - Duck Baker , American guitarist1950 - Frank Stallone , American singer and actor1954 - Ken Olin , American actor1956 - Delta Burke , American actress1956 - Réal Cloutier , Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Anita Hill , American author
1957 - Clint Hurdle , American baseball player and manager1957 - Nery Pumpido , Argentine footballer
1957 - Rat Scabies , English drummer (The Damned )
1958 - Kate Bush , English singer/songwriter1958 - Daley Thompson , English decathlete
1961 - Laurence Fishburne , American actor1961 - Richard Linklater , American filmmaker
1962 - Alton Brown , American television host and chef1963 - Lisa Kudrow , American actress1963 - Chris Mullin , American basketball player
1964 - Vivica A. Fox , American actress1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann , German footballer and manager
1964 - Alek Keshishian , Lebanese-born American film director
1968 - Robert Korzeniowski , Polish athlete1968 - Sean Moore , Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers )
1969 - Simon Baker , American actor1970 - Christopher Nolan , English film director1971 - Tom Green , Canadian comedian and actor1971 - Christine Taylor , American actress
1973 - Markus Naslund , Swedish ice hockey player1973 - Sonu Nigam , Indian singer/actor
1974 - Hilary Swank , American actress1974 - Radostin Kishishev , Bulgarian footballer
1974 - Jason Robinson , English Rugby Union Player
1975 - Graham Nicholls , English artist1975 - Cherie Priest , American writer
1977 - Jaime Pressly , American actress1977 - Ian Watkins , Welsh singer (Lostprophets )Deaths [ ] 578 - Jacob Baradaeus , Bishop of Edessa579 - Pope Benedict I 1540 - Thomas Abel , English priest (martyred)1540 - Robert Barnes , English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495 )
1550 - Thomas Wriothesley , English politician (b. 1505 )1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie , French soldier (b. 1624 )1680 - Thomas Butler , Irish naval commander (b. 1634 )1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain , queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638 )1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof , German writer and scholar (b. 1639 )1718 - William Penn , English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644 )1771 - Thomas Gray , English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716 )1811 - Miguel Hidalgo , Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)1875 - George Pickett , American Confederate general (b. 1825 )1898 - Otto von Bismarck , 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815 )1900 - Alfred (b. 1844 )1912 - Emperor Meiji , Japanese emperor (b. 1852 )1918 - Joyce Kilmer , American poet (b. 1886 )1930 - Joan Gamper , Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877 )1947 - Joseph Cook , 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860 )1965 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Japanese author (b. 1886 )1970 - George Szell , Hungarian conductor (b. 1897 )1971 - Kenneth Slessor , Australian poet (b. 1901 )1983 - Howard Dietz , American lyricist (b. 1896 )1983 - Lynn Fontanne , English actress (b. 1887 )
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson , American mathematician (b. 1919 )1989 - Lane Frost , American bull rider (b. 1963 )1992 - Joe Shuster , Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914 )1992 - Brenda Marshall , American actress (b. 1915 )
1996 - Claudette Colbert , American actress (b. 1903 )1997 - Bảo Đại , Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913 )1998 - Buffalo Bob Smith , American television host (Howdy Doody 1917 )2004 - Andre Noble , Canadian actor (b. 1979 )2005 - Ray Cunningham , American baseball player (b. 1905 )2005 - John Garang , Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945 )
2005 - Anthony Walker , English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987 )
2006 - Anthony Galla-Rini , American accordionist (b. 1904 )2006 - Al Balding , Canadian golfer (b. 1924 )
2006 - Murray Bookchin , American libertarian socialist (b. 1921 )
2007 - Michelangelo Antonioni , Italian film director (b. 1912 )2007 - Teoctist , Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915 )
2007 - Ingmar Bergman , Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918 )
2007 - Bill Walsh , American football coach (b. 1931 ) Holidays and observances [ ] Roman Catholicism
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85 Familypedia people were born on July 30
142 Familypedia people died on July 30
77 Familypedia people were first married on July 30