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On This Day

July 30

1992
Iran announces that it is keeping the planes Iraq had stored there for safe keeping during the Gulf War.

1975
Jimmy Hoffa: The ex-teamster boss is last seen outside of a motel in Detroit, Michigan.

1974
Watergate: Impeachment of Pres. Nixon is recommended by the House Judiciary Committee.

1966
Vietnam War: U.S. begins bombing the demilitarized zone which separates North and South Vietnam. These types of attacks would lead to many civilian casualties.

1965
Medicare: Bill signed by Pres. Johnson to provide health care benefits to the elderly beginning in July.

1956
In God We Trust: The phrase is adopted as the official U.S. motto. It had been in use on coins since 1864.

1945
World War II - U.S. Navy's worst wartime loss at sea: Only 320 of the 1,196-man crew survived shark-infested waters after the USS Indianapolis was hit by a Japanese torpedo.

1936
First major-league baseball team to travel by air, Boston Red Sox.

1928
First public demonstration of a color motion picture, by George Eastman.

1923
First Time magazine to feature a woman on the cover, Italian actress Eleonora Duse.

1909
First airplane purchased by the U.S. government: A Wright biplane is officially tested. It was accepted by the Army on August 2nd at a cost of $30,000.

1898
First U.S. automobile advertised in a magazine: The Winton Motor Car Co. of Cleveland in Scientific American.

1874
First baseball teams to play outside of the U.S.: National Association teams the Boston Red Stockings and the Philadelphia Athletic Blue Stockings play the first of a series of exhibition games in England and Ireland. (Source: Famous First Facts)

1619
First elected governing body in America, the House of Burgesses, is formed in Jamestown, Virginia.

1974
Hillary Swank, American actress. Film: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and The Next Karate Kid (1994, title role).

1956
Delta Burke, American actress, 1974 Miss Florida. TV: Designing Women (Suzanne Sugarbaker).

1954
Ken Olin, American actor. TV: thirtysomething (Michael Steadman).

1947
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born bodybuilder, actor, politician, Governator.

1941
Paul Anka, Canadian singer, songwriter. Music: Diana (1957, #1), Puppy Love (1960), and the theme for The Tonight Show.

1939
Peter Bogdanovich, American director. Film: The Last Picture Show (1971) and Paper Moon (1973).

1933
Edd Byrnes (Ed Breitenberger), American actor. TV: 77 Sunset Strip (Kookie, with his 1959 hit song Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb).

1909     d. 1993
Northcote Parkinson, British author, historian, creator of Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill the time available for its completion).

1863     d. 1947
Henry Ford, American auto maker. He introduced the assembly line and the $5-a-day wage to automobile production.

1818     d. 1848
Emily Brontë, English novelist. Writings: Wuthering Heights (1847).

1996     b. 1903
Claudette Colbert (Claudette Lily Chauchoin), Oscar-winning French-American actress. Film: It Happened One Night (Oscar).

1898     b. 1815
Prince Otto von Bismarck, Prussian statesman. He created and became first chancellor of the German Empire.

1718     b. 1644
William Penn, English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania. He was expelled from the Christ Church College, Oxford in 1662 and jailed several times for his religious beliefs.

579     b. ????
Benedict I, Italian religious leader, 62nd Pope (575-579).

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