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July 30th - Today's Highlights in History

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« on: July 30, 2009, 02:42:20 am »

Thursday, July 30th
The 211th day of 2009.
There are 154 days left in the year.
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Today's Highlights in History

   
   On July 30, 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. (Go to article.)

On July 30, 1863, Henry Ford, the American automobile manufacturer who founded the Ford Motor Company, was born. Following his death on April 7, 1947, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
   On July 30, 1881, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about European colonialism in Africa. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:

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.

1863    American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Mich.

1942    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES.

1965    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law.

1971    Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin landed on the moon.

1975    Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. He is presumed dead, though his remains have never been found.

1996    Actress Claudette Colbert died at age 92.

2002    Expelled from Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption.

2002    WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks became the first woman to dunk in a professional game during her team's 82-73 loss to the Miami Sol.

2003    Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis Presley, died at age 80.

2007    Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman died at age 87.

2007    Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh died at age 75.

Current Birthdays

Simon Baker turns 40 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini Actor ("The Mentalist") Simon Baker turns 40 years old today.


82    Richard Johnson
Actor

76    Edd "Kookie" Byrnes
Actor

73    Buddy Guy
Blues guitarist

70    Peter Bogdanovich
Director

70    Eleanor Smeal
Feminist activist

68    Paul Anka
Singer

64    David Sanborn
Jazz saxophonist

62    William Atherton
Actor

62    Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California, actor

61    Jean Reno
Actor

61    Otis Taylor
Blues guitarist

59    Frank Stallone
Actor

55    Ken Olin
Actor

53    Delta Burke
Actress ("Designing Women")

51    Richard Burgi
Actor

51    Kate Bush
Rock singer

51    Neal McCoy
Country singer

49    Richard Linklater
Director

48    Laurence Fishburne
Actor ("C.S.I.")

46    Lisa Kudrow
Actress ("Friends")

46    Danny Roberts
Country musician (The Grascals)

45    Vivica A. Fox
Actress

45    Dwayne O'Brien
Country musician (Little Texas)

41    Terry Crews
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")

39    Christopher Nolan
Director ("The Dark Night," "Batman Begins")

38    Tom Green
Actor, comedian

38    Brad Hargreaves
Rock musician (Third Eye Blind)

38    Christine Taylor
Actress

36    Dean Edwards
Actor, comedian

35    Hilary Swank
Actress

32    Jaime Pressley
Actress

29    Seth Avett
Country singer, musician (The Avett Brothers)

27    Yvonne Strahovski
Actress ("Chuck")

Historic Birthdays

Henry Ford

7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947
American industrialist who changed production with his assembly line methods
(Go to obit.)

84    Michael Morris Killanin
7/30/1914 - 4/25/1999
Irish author and president of the International Olympic Committee

83    C. Northcote Parkinson
7/30/1909 - 3/9/1993
English historian, author, and formulator of "Parkinson's Law"

88    Henry Moore
7/30/1898 - 8/31/1986
English sculptor; one of the greatest of the 20th century

85    Casey Stengel
7/30/1890 - 9/29/1975
American professional baseball player and manager

92    Vladimir Zworykin
7/30/1889 - 7/29/1982
Russian-born American inventor and the father of television

74    Robert McCormick
7/30/1880 - 4/1/1955
American newspaper editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune

72    Richard Burdon Haldane
7/30/1856 - 8/19/1928
Scottish lawyer, philosopher, and statesman

30    Emily Bronte
7/30/1818 - 12/19/1848
English novelist and poet; wrote "Wuthering Heights"

62    Giorgio Vasari
7/30/1511 - 6/27/1574
Italian painter, architect, historian and writer


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