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Friday, July 30th 2010
Today is the 211st day of 2010. There are 154 days left in this year.
What Happened On This Day In History?
| 1619 |
The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Va. |
| 1729 |
The city of Baltimore was founded. |
| 1792 |
The French national anthem ''La Marseillaise'' by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris. |
| 1898 |
Scientific American carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to "Dispense with a Horse." |
| 1942 |
President Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as ''Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service'' or WAVES for short. |
| 1942 |
The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services were a part of of the U.S. Navy. |
| 1945 |
The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters. |
| 1952 |
The popular radio soap opera, The Guiding Light, was seen for the first time on CBS television. The daytime drama continues today. |
| 1956 |
The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto. |
| 1965 |
President Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law. It took effect the following year. |
| 1975 |
Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. |
| 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. |
| 1997 |
Two men bombed Jerusalem's most crowded outdoor market, killing themselves and 16 others. |
| 1999 |
Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to the impeachment of President Clinton, was charged in Maryland with illegal wiretapping. (Prosecutors later dropped the charges). |
| 2001 |
In Canada medicinal use of marijuana became legal. |
| 2001 |
In South Africa Catholic bishops denounced condoms as "immoral and misguided" weapons against AIDS. |
| 2003 |
President Bush took personal responsibility for the first time for using disputed intelligence in his State of the Union address, but predicted he would be vindicated for going to war against Iraq. |
| 2003 |
The last Volkswagen Beetle was produced in Mexico. Some 21,529,464 Bugs were built there over 68 years. |
| 2004 |
A new Austrian postage stamp featuring a likeness of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went on sale on his birthday. |
Born on this day
| 1863 |
American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Mich. |
| 1889 |
Vladimir Zworykin, called the ''Father of Television'' for inventing the iconoscope, was born in Russia. |
Died on this day
| 1996 |
Actress Claudette Colbert died in Barbados at age 92. |
| 1998 |
''Buffalo Bob'' Smith, the cowboy-suited host of ''The Howdy Doody Show,'' died in Hendersonville, N.C., at age 80. |
| 2003 |
Sam Phillips (b.1923), founder of Sun Records (1952), died in Memphis. Phillips produced Elvis Presley's 1st record. |
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