Some of the significant events which took place on July 30 taken from the leaf of History:
1178 – Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 – First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or killed by crowd outside.
1502 – Christopher Columbus landed at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1619 – The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, VA. (House of Burgesses)
1729 – The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.
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
1869- The Charles, considered the world’s first “oil tanker”, departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil.
1886: S. Muthulakshami Reddy, distinguished medical professional, was born.
1898 – “Scientific America” carried the first magazine automobile ad. The ad was for the Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH.
1931 – New Long Distance Flying Record: Russel Boardman and John Polando land their Monoplane in Istanbul, Turkey today in 49 hrs. and 20 minutes since leaving New York setting a new long distance nonstop world record.
1932 – Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees” premiered. It was the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor. Disney movies, music and books.
1935 – The first Penguin paperback book costing 6d is published in England and started the paperback revolution, many believed it would not be profitable but following the purchase of 63,000 books by Woolworth within 12 months one million Penguin books are sold.
1937 – The American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was organized as a part of the American Federation of Labor.
1937- Russian Politburo issues NKVD Order no. 00447, to repress former kulak and anti-soviets, 269,100 to be arrested, 76,000 to be shot. Part of the Great Purge.
1942 – The WAVES were created by legislation signed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women’s Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service were a part of the U.S. Navy.
1943 – Adolf Hitler is informed that Italy is planning to negotiate surrender terms with the Allies in light of Mussolini’s fall from power.
1945 – The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack.
1953 – The FBI has seized 6 communist leaders from the city of Philadelphia on charges of teaching and advocating the overthrow of the government, this brings the total of those arrested for similar offences around the nation to 87.
1954 – U.S.A. Elvis Presley: Elvis Presley, the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” made his first professional performance at the Overton Park Shell Concert in Memphis singing that’s Alright Mama and Blue Moon of Kentucky as the opening act for Slim Whitman and Billy Walker.
1956 – U.S.A. “In God We Trust” Added: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring “In God We Trust” to be the nation’s official motto. The law, P.L. 84-140, also required that the phrase be printed on all American paper currency.
1965 – U.S.A. Social Security Act: The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson which established the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs, financed by higher Social Security payroll taxes.
1966 – England World Cup: England win the World Cup in extra time at Wembley Stadium 4 to 2. At the end of full time the score is 2 to 2 and England’s Geoff Hurst scored first to give England a 3 to 2 lead and in the dying seconds of extra time he scores his third goal, making the final score 4 to 2 and giving England the world cup, this was also the first time a world cup is televised live. Learn more in our History of Soccer section.
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