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- 1419 First Defenestration of Prague.
- 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 House of Burgesses Virginia formed, the first elective US governing body
- 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.
- 1729 City of Baltimore founded
- 1733 First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
- 1733 Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston
- 1756 Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
- 1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for first time
- 1822 James Varick becomes first bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
- 1825 Malden Island discovered.
- 1836 The first English newspaper published in Hawaii
- 1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
- 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.
- 1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
- 1866 New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
- 1898 "Scientific America" carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to "Dispense with a Horse."
- 1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
- 1909 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
- 1909 US Army accepts delivery of first military airplane
- 1913 Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War
- 1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
- 1918 Units of First Marine Aviation Force arrive at Brest, France
- 1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
- 1928 George Eastman demonstrates first color movie
- 1930 In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup.
- 1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo
- 1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
- 1932 The Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles, CA. The Games would revisit Los Angeles -- and the same venues of the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, etc. -- in 1984.
- 1932 Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
- 1941 HMS CACHALOT, sunk after a collision NW of Benghazi, eastern Libya - rammed by Italian torpedo boat 'Papa'.
- 1941 Japanese aircraft bomb USS Tutuila (PR-4) at Chungking, China; First Navy ship damaged by Axis during World War II.
- 1942 FDR signs act establishing WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). During World War II, over 80,000 officer and enlisted women served in the WAVES.
- 1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
- 1942 Visitor posting - will born in newborough,anglesey - United Kingdom
- 1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
- 1944 Naval Task Force lands Army troops near Cape Opmarai, New Guinea.
- 1945 Japanese submarine, I-58, sinks USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in Philippine Sea; 316 out of 1199 crew survived.
- 1946 The first rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
- 1948 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
- 1953 Rikidzan 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.
- 1956 The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
- 1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
- 1958 Visitor posting - BEST FRIEND WAS BORN - Canada [email protected]
- 1960 The first AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
- 1964 Visitor posting - Barbara Aleshiaanne De'Bruce Born
- 1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year
- 1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
- 1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
- 1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
- 1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
- 1969 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
- 1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
- 1970 Smirnova discover asteroid 1835 Gajdariya, 2032 Ethel & 2349 Kurchenko
- 1970 Visitor posting - Catherine Stern born - USA
- 1971 An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
- 1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
- 1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
- 1974 House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon
- 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, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
- 1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit still not found
- 1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
- 1976 Visitor posting - Jim and Carol get married!!! - USA
- 1977 Visitor posting - 07/30/1977 Deborah Gonzalez was born in Havana, Cuba
- 1980 British New Hebrides becomes independent & takes name Vanuatu
- 1980 Vanuatu gains independence.
- 1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
- 1983 Visitor posting - Malorie Jane Traiser is born in Wellsey MA - USA
- 1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
- 1983 Visitor posting - Jeremy Irvine Littlewood born, Bury St Edmunds, UK
- 1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
- 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
- 1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
- 1988 Visitor posting - james bayne born - United Kingdom
- 1988 Visitor posting - nicola hamilton born - United Kingdom
- 1989 Visitor posting - live in Denver Colorado - USA [email protected]
- 1990 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
- 1990 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
- 1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
- 1993 Visitor posting - Thayne Harvey was born Thompson, CT - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - THE CHRIS aka Chris Malloy [YouTellMe] Was born.. MISTINGO - United Kingdom
- 1995 Visitor posting - July 30 1995- Kelly Nguyen was born at 9:05 a.m
- 1995 Visitor posting - Christopher Barrett Alverson born on July 30 1995. My Pet is a dog named Toby - USA [email protected]
- 1996 Visitor posting - Stephanie was born so awesome - USA
- 1997 Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Louis Williamson was born - United Kingdom
- 1998 Visitor posting - July 30, 1998 Benjamin James Fischer is born in Manchester, NH
- 1999 Visitor posting - Claire Catherine Ferguson was born-Huntington, WV - USA
- 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 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.
- 2006 World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
- 2007 John Brumby becomes Premier of Victoria following the resignation of Steve Bracks.
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