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What happened in history on this day: July 30?
On July 30 in ...
- 1729 - City of Baltimore founded.
- 1844 - First US yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club.
- 1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner.
- 1865 - Side-wheel steamship Brother Jonathan strikes a rock and breaks up off Crescent City, California. The ship was carrying $200,000 in army payroll, and possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold coins and bars.
- 1870 - Staten Island ferry Westfield burns, killing 100.
- 1916 - German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey, USA.
- 1928 - George Eastman demonstrates first color movie.
- 1932 - Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood premieres the Silly Symphony film Flowers and Trees. This is the first full color cartoon.
- 1942 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES).
- 1945 - Just after midnight, Japanese submarine I-58 strikes USS Indianapolis with two torpedoes, sinking the ship in 12 minutes.
- 1946 - First rocket attains 100 miles (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico, USA.
- 1956 - Congress passes a law making "In God We Trust" the nation's motto.
- 1965 - US President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect following year.
- 1967 - Race riot in Milwaukee (four killed).
- 1971 - US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon.
- 1972 - In Sitka, Alaska, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs. The Fairvolcano fault ruptures over a length of 75 kilometers.
- 1974 - US House of Representatives recommends three articles of impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
- 1975 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit, Illinois.
- 1980 - Representative Ron Paul of Texas introduces "Monetary Freedom Act" in House of Representatives to "repeal the privilege of banks to create money".
- 1983 - Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California.
- 1984 - Alvenus tanker at Cameron, Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil.
- 1998 - The Disney Cruise Line launches its first cruise ship, the Disney Magic, from Port Canaveral, Florida.
- 2002 - Sotheby's in New York in conjunction with Stack's auctions the King Farouk specimen of the US 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle for $7,590,020, a world record for a single coin at auction. The $20 represents a $20 Federal Reserve note paid by auctioneer David Redden to Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore to officially monetize the coin.
- 2007 - New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister.
- 2008 - Heritage Numismatic Auctions sells a 1944-S steel Lincoln cent graded MS-66 by NGC for US$373,450, a record for any small cent.
- 2020 - From the spaceport at Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA successfully launches its Perseverance Mars 2020 rover mission to search for signs of ancient life on the planet, and collect samples for return to Earth. The mission includes technology demonstrations to prepare for future human missions.
Births on July 30
- 1855 - Birth of James Edward Kelly; US sculptor "Sculptor of American History".
- 1863 - Birth of Henry Ford in Dearborn Township, Michigan, USA; auto maker (Ford) (dies 1947).
- 1880 - Birth of Robert Rutherford McCormick; US editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune).
- 1921 - Birth of Grant Johannesen in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; pianist (Osténd first prize 1947).
- 1924 - Birth of William Gass in Fargo, North Dakota, USA; novelist, philosopher (Omensetter's Luck).
- 1929 - Birth of Christine McGuire in Middletown, Ohio, USA; singer (McGuire Sisters - "Sugartime").
- 1931 - Birth of Joan Vohs in Saint Albans, New York, USA; actress (Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina).
- 1933 - Birth of Edd "Kookie" Byrnes in Louisiana, USA; actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper).
- 1934 - Birth of Ben Piazza in Arkansas, USA; actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas).
- 1936 - Birth of Ralph Taeger in Richmond Hill, New York, USA; actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo).
- 1940 - Birth of Reva Rose in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Temperature's Rising).
- 1941 - Birth of Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) in Binghamton, New York, USA; sword swallower.
- 1947 - Birth of William Atherton in Connecticut, USA; actor (Real Genius, Ghostbusters, Class of 44).
- 1950 - Birth of Frank Stallone in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force).
- 1954 - Birth of Ken Olin in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Hill Street Blues, Michael - Thirty Something).
- 1956 - Birth of Delta Burke in Orlando, Florida, USA; actress (Suzanne - Designing Women).
- 1957 - Birth of Mark Tymchyshyn in Minneapolis, USA; actor (Gavin - As the World Turns).
- 1963 - Birth of Monique Gabrielle in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Bad Girls 4, Amazon Women on the Moon).
- 1975 - Birth of Tifini Hale in Palm Springs, California; rocker (Party - "Rodeo", "That's Why").
Deaths on July 30
- 1983 - Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at age 86 of Parkinson's disease.
- 2003 - Death of Sam Phillips at age 80; Sun Records founder (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins).
- 2022 - Death of Pat Carroll at age 95 from pneumonia at home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA; voice actor (Ursula - The Little Mermaid movie).
- 2022 - Death of Nichelle Nichols at age 89 of heart failure in Silver City, New Mexico, USA; actor (Porgy and Bess movie (1959), The Lieutenant TV show (1964), Lieutenant Uhura - Star Trek TV show (1966-1970), Star Trek: The Motion Picture movie, Heroes TV show (2007), The Young and the Restless TV show (2017)), author (Beyond Uhura book).
- 2023 - Death of Paul Reubens at age 70 of cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Pee-wee Herman - Pee-wee's Big Adventure movie (1985), Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show (1986-1990), Blow movie (2001), Murphy Brown TV show, 30 Rock TV show).
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