happy birthday to me!
here are some fun things that also happened on july 30th!
579: Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
657: St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1178: Fredrick "Barbarossa" crowned King of Burgundy
1609: Iroquois Indians defeated by their first sight of firearms
1619: The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Virginia (House of Burgesses)
1641: Reinier de Graaf, Dutch physician, discovered ovarian follicles born
1656: Charles X of Sweden defeated the Poles at the Battle of Warsaw, two days after invading the country 1718: William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania as a colony for Quakers to experience religious liberty, dies
1729: The city of Baltimore was founded
1733: The Society of Freemasons opened their first lodge in Boston
1775: The U.S. Army founds its chaplaincy, making it the Army's oldest division after the infantry
1818: Emily Bronte (author) born
1855: James Edward Kelly US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History" born
1863: Henry Ford (auto manufacturer production: the Tin Lizzie) born
1863: President Lincoln gave an order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner that was shot; it became known as the "eye-for-eye" order
1898: Henry Moore (sculptor) born
1898: Scientific America carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH, invited readers to dispense with a horse this day
1928: George Eastman showed the first color motion pictures in the U.S
1932: The Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles
1935: The first Penguin book was published, starting the paperback revolution. The idea came from
1942: President Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service":- WAVES for short
1945: Jazz musician David Sanborn born
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
1947: Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger born
1947: Actor William Atherton born
1956: Actress Delta Burke (Designing Women, Filthy Rich) born
1956: The phrase, In God We Trust, was adopted as the
1963: Actress Lisa Kudrow born
1964: Country musician Dwayne O'Brien (Little Texas) born
1964: Actress Vivica Fox ("Independence Day") born
1965: President Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year
1971: Actress Christine Taylor ("The Brady Bunch Movie") born
1973: The 11-year battle for the victims of the drug Thalidomide ended with compensation payments of 20 million pounds sterling 1974: Actress Hilary Swank (Growing Pains, Evening Shade) born
1974: Eleven women become the first ordained females in the Episcopal Church
1974: The House Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 21-17, approved a third article of impeachment against President Nixon, charging him with ignoring congressional subpoenas. Nixon resigned before the issue came to trial
1975: Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit:- although presumed dead, his remains have never been found
1975: Representatives of 35 countries convened in Helsinki, Finland, for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the "Helsinki Accords." The conference was aimed at ensuring peace in Europe
1985:
1992: A TWA Lockheed L-1011 caught fire during takeoff from New York's Kennedy International Airport; all 292 people aboard survived
1992: At the Barcelona Summer Olympics, Shannon Miller won the silver medal in the women's all-around gymnastics event
1993: Bosnia's outgunned Muslim-led government abandoned its efforts to hold the region together, agreeing to a preliminary accord to divide the former Yugoslav republic into three ethnic states
1993: Tap water was declared safe to drink again in flood-ravaged Des Moines, Iowa
1994: The first U.S. troops landed in the Rwandan capital of Kigali to secure the airport for an expanded international aid effort
1994: The world community shut down air service to Haiti, leaving the army-ruled nation more isolated than ever 1996: The US Olympic softball team defeated China, 3-to-1, to win the gold
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) 2002: Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie became the first woman to dunk in a WNBA league basketball game
2006: World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show has aired for 42 years
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