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Today in History ~ July 30
Marseillaise Day in France
Events1178 - Frederick I (Barbarossa) Holy Roman Emperor crowned King of Burgundy
1419 - The Defenestration in Prague" [H]
1619 - In Jamestown Virginia the first elected legislative assembly in the New World--the House of Burgesses--convened in the choir loft of the town's church. [H]
1626 - Earthquake hits Naples; 10 000 die
1646 - English parliament sets King Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1715 - Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie Florida
1729 - City of Baltimore founded
1733 - Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1775 - Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
1792 - 500 Marseilles troops sing France's national anthem for 1st time La Marseillaise," by Rouget de Lisle
1824 - Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian Paris
1839 - Slave rebels take over slaver Amistad
1844 - The New York Yacht Club was founded.
1858 - British explorer John H. Speke was the first European to reach the a large lake in East Africa later named Lake Victoria (or Victoria Nyanza). He named the lake in honor of the Queen and identified it as the source of the Nile River. Many English explorers disputed this claim including Richard Burton but Speke's theory was later proven correct.
1863 - Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1864 - Capture and burning of Chambersburg Pennsylvania - burned by Union forces under McCausland
1864 - "Battle of the Crater" during the siege of Petersburg [H]
1878 - German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1898 - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1902 - Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1908 - Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 - Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1916 - German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island
1928 - George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1928 - The MGM lion roared for the first time. Having produced their first "talkie" MGM used the lion to introduce the featured attraction.
1930 - Uruguay beat Argentina in the first World Soccer Cup.
1932 - The Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
1932 - Walt Disney released his first color cartoon, Flowers and Trees, made in three-color Technicolor.
1935 - 1st Penguin book is published starting the paperback revolution
1937 - The American Federation of Radio Artists was organized. It later became AFTRA, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, under the AFL-CIO.
1942 - German SS einsatzgruppen death battalions kill 25 000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia
1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" _ WAVES for short.
1944 - US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1949 - British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1956 - "In God We Trust" was adopted as the US national motto.
1963 - British spy Kim Philby discovered in Moscow
1964 - US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo North Vietnam
1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year.
1966 - US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1966 - In the first televised World Cup soccer match, host-nation England beat Germany 4-2 to win the tournament final at Wembley Stadium.
1967 - Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1969 - Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel Las Vegas
1971 - George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
1971 - US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up [H]
1975 - Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. Although he is presumed dead, his remains have never been found. He was declared dead in 1982.
1975 - Representatives of 35 countries convened in Finland for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the Helsinki accords. [H]
1976 - Kate Smith made her last public appearance, singing her trademark number, God Bless America on a TV program honoring the U.S. Bicentennial.
1980 - The Israeli Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
1981 - Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London
1984 - Alvenus tanker at Cameron La spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 - Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1988 - Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignty over West Bank to PLO
1990 - George Steinbrenner, under investigation by Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent for making a $40,000 payment to a known gambler, agreed to be permanently barred from operation of the New York Yankees.
1990 - Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church 200-600 die
1991 - President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev began their face-to-face meetings in Moscow.
1991 - A special UN commission to Iraq announced it had found 46,000 chemical shells and warheads and 3,000 tons of raw materials for weapons.
1992 - A TWA Lockheed L-1011 caught fire during takeoff from New York's Kennedy International Airport, more than 60 people were injured but all 292 people aboard survived.
1996 - A federal law enforcement source said security guard Richard Jewell had become a focus of the investigation into the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. (Jewell was later cleared as a suspect by the Justice Department.)
1996 - The US Olympic softball team defeated China, 3-1, to win the gold medal.
1997 - Two men bombed Jerusalem's most crowded outdoor market, killing themselves and 16 others.
1997 - Eighteen people were killed in a landslide that swept one ski lodge onto another at the Thredbo Alpine Village in southeast Australia.
2000 - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election.
2001 - Typhoon Toraji churned through Taiwan, killing 61 people and leaving about 150 missing
Birthdays Today
1511 - Giorgio Vasari (Italy)(painter/art historian )
1747 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini (composer)
1751 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart (Austrian pianist/Wolfgang's sister)
1818 - Emily Jane Bronte (England)(author: Wuthering Heights)
1831 - Helene P Blavatsky founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
1855 - Wilhelm von Siemens (German industrialist)
1857 - Thorstein Veblen (US) economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
1863 - Henry Ford (Dearborn Township Mich) (auto manufacturer: first assembly line production:)
1880 - Robert Rutherford ("Colonel") McCormick US editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
1889 - Vladimir K Zworykin USSR electronics engineer/inventor father of TV
1890 - Casey (Charles) Stengel (baseball: NY Yankees player and manager: 7 World Series championships [1949-53, 1956, 1958])
1898 - Henry Moore (England) sculptor
1899 - Gerald Moore England pianist
1909 - Cyril Northcote Parkinson England historian (Pursuit of Progress)
1925 - Jacques Sernas (actor: 55 Days at Peking, La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.)
1929 - Christine McGuire (singer: group: The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Something's Gotta Give, He, Sugartime)
1933 - Edd Byrnes (Breitenberger) (actor: 77 Sunset Strip, Darby's Rangers; singer w/Connie Stevens: Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb; holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960])
1934 - Ben Piazza (actor: Guilty by Suspicion, The Hanging Tree)
1938 - Joe Nuxhall (baseball: Cincinnati Reds pitcher: youngest major-league player [15yrs, 314 days])
1939 - Eleanor Smeal (feminist: president of NOW)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich (director: Texasville, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What's Up Doc?; writer: The Last Unicorn)
1941 - Paul Anka (songwriter: Johnny's Theme [Tonight Show Theme], My Way, She's a Lady, Diana; singer: 33 hits over 3 decades: Diana, You Are My Destiny, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Puppy Love, You're Having My Baby)
1946 - Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor: Eraser, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Conan the Barbarian, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies, Last Action Hero; married to Maria Shriver; 5-time Mr. Universe; part owner of Planet Hollywood restaurants)
1947 - Marc Bolan (Feld) (singer: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong)
1949 - Dwight White (football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1950 - Willie Harper (football: San Francisco '49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI)
1952 - Randy Crowder (football)
1954 - Ken Olin (actor: Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Thirtysomething)
1956 - Anita Hill (law professor: Clarence Thomas' nemesis before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee concerning Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court)
1956 - Delta Burke (actress: Delta, Designing Women, Filthy Rich, Chisholm; Miss Florida)
1961 - Laurence Fishburne (Tony Award-winning actor: Two Trains Running; Apocalypse Now, Bad Company, Boyz in the Hood)
1972 - Olga Chernyak Kiev Ukraine US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1974 - Hilary Swank (actress: Growing Pains, Evening Shade, The Next Karate Kid)
Famous deaths
1712 - Abraham Elsevier, publisher,
1718 - William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"), dies at 54
1784 - Denis Diderot, philosopher/author & coordinator of first Encyclopedia, dies at 70
1863 - George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
1967 - Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59
1970 - George Szell, Hungarian/US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73
1983 - Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
1996 - Claudette Colbert, actress, dies of stroke at 93
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