| Prompted by the Virginia Company, colonial governor Sir George Yeardley helped facilitate elections of representatives, called "burgesses", to this new legislative body that would come from eleven Virginia boroughs adjacent to the James River, along with eleven additional burgesses. The first meeting of the House of Burgesses occurred on July 30, 1619 at Jamestown. In 1624, Virginia became a royal colony. Voting for the burgesses was limited to landowning males over 17. |
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| The site was settled in the early 17th cent. and Baltimore founded in 1729. The excellent harbor soon made it a center for the shipping of tobacco and grain. It was named after the Irish barony of Baltimore (seat of the Calvert family, proprietors of the colony of Maryland). |
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| French national anthem, composed in one night during the French Revolution (April 24, 1792) by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a captain of the engineers and amateur musician. It became known as “Chant de Guerre pour l'Arm?du Rhin” when it was adopted as the marching song of the National Guard of Marseille. The Marseille troops were singing it as they entered Paris on July 30, 1792, and the Parisians dubbed it the “Marseillaise”. |
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| The New York Yacht Club was founded on July 30, 1844 by nine gentlemen. John Cox Stevens, the leader of this group, and a prominent citizen of New York with a passion for sport, was elected commodore. In addition to his sailing activities, Stevens once served as president of the Jockey Club, and owned the noted racing horse, "Eclipse." He was also a founding member of New York’s oldest gentlemen’s society, the Union Club. |
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| Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps, offered a novel proposal to solve the problem. Pleasants, a mining engineer from Pennsylvania in civilian life, proposed digging a long mine shaft underneath the Confederate lines and planting explosive charges directly underneath a fort in the middle of the Confederate First Corps line. On the morning of July 30, 1864, Pleasants lit the fuse. After no explosion occurred at the expected time, two volunteers from the 48th Regiment crawled into the tunnel. After discovering the fuse had burned out at a splice, they spliced on a length of new fuse and relit it. Finally, at 4:44 a.m., the charges exploded in a massive shower of earth, men, and guns. A crater (still visible today) was created, 170 feet long, 60 to 80 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. Between 280 and 350 Confederate soldiers were instantly killed in the blast. |
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| In 1898, Scientific American carried the first magazine automobile advertisement bringing Alexander Winton returns for his $1000 car. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to “Dispense with a Horse.” First a maker of bicycles, he made his first experimental four-wheeled, gasoline engine car in 1896. By 1900, the Winton Motor Car Company had the world's largest automobile factory, but by 1904 the manufacturing centre of the country was Detroit, MI. |
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| In 1898, Corn Flakes were invented by William Kellogg. At Battle Creek Sanitarium, Sanitarium superintendent, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg, his younger brother and business manager, invented many grain-based foods, including a coffee substitute, a type of granola, and peanut butter to provide patients a strict nutritious diet. In 1894 they unintentionally invented a flaked cereal process based on wheat. By 1898, W.K. Kellogg had developed the first flaked corn cereal. Patients enjoyed the cereals and wanted more to take home. |
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| The torturous New York to Paris Race route: NYC, Albany, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Valdez Alaska, Japan, Vladivostok, Omsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin and finally Paris. The Thomas Flyer Team covered three continents and over 22,000 miles in 169 days. The Race was ultimately won by the American Thomas Flyer driven by George Schuster Sr. of Buffalo, NY.The Thomas enters Berlin on July 27. It was then on to Paris arriving 6 PM, July 30. At 169 days, the Americans won by 26 days ahead of the Germans. The Italians finished third in Paris September 17, 1908 |
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| Thomas Edison and George Eastman met publicly for the first and last time on July 30, 1928, to announce the invention of color movie film. Eastman, who invented the film, and Edison, who fashioned the camera, announced the breakthrough at a press conference in the garden of Eastman's Rochester mansion. They treated guests to a glimpse of the first Kodacolor movie: images of a goldfish and a parrot—and, later, to a film of the guests themselves, shot earlier that day. |
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| Charles Darrow, became the first millionaire game designer after he sold his patent to Parker Brothers, however, there was a controversy behind the invention of the game. Monopoly was first marketed on a broad scale by Parker Brothers in 1935. A Standard Edition, with a small black box and separate board, and a larger Deluxe Edition with a box large enough to hold the board, were sold in the first year of Parker Brothers' ownership. These were based on the two editions sold by Darrow. George Parker himself rewrote many of the game's rules, insisting that "short game" and time limit" rules be included. |
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| The Cards Dizzy Dean set a 20th-century major-league record with 17 strikeouts in the first game of a doubleheader with the Cubs. His teammate, C Jimmie Wilson, totals 18 putouts, also a new record. |
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| Camilli hit at least 23 HR eight straight seasons. He was named MVP in 1941 after leading Brooklyn to the pennant with league highs of 34 HR and 120 RBI. When Brooklyn traded him to the rival Giants in 1943, Camilli refused to report. |  |
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| The Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) were established on July 30, 1942, as the U.S. Navy's corps of female members. During World War II some 100,000 WAVES served in a wide variety of capacities, ranging from performing essential clerical duties to serving as instructors for male pilots-in-training. Initially, they did not serve overseas. |  |
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| In 1943, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a lavish version of the stage play starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. This movie marked the final teaming of Judy and Mickey before he was drafted into the American army in World War II. It was their ninth of ten motion pictures together. This was also June Allyson's feature film debut. |  |
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| At 12:14 a.m. on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea and sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 men on board, approximately 300 went down with the ship. The remainder, about 900 men, were left floating in shark-infested waters with no lifeboats and most with no food or water. The ship was never missed, and by the time the survivors were spotted by accident four days later only 316 men were still alive. The ship had just delivered the first atomic bomb to the base on Trinian Island. |
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| It was the first time an altitude of 100 mi (167 km) is reached by a test rocket. The V-2 rocket was fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen launched at White Sands, NM. This test had the first separation of nose cone. During World War II, the nose cone held a German warhead containing almost a ton of explosives. At White Sands, the Army invited government agencies and universities to use the nose cone's 20 cubic feet of space for scientific research, up to 2,000 pounds of scientific equipment, such as cameras, sensors, and on-board experiments, were carried aloft on each flight. |
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| Monroe’s two biggest hits, "Ballerina" and "Riders in the Sky," came in 1947 and 1949, respectively. The latter, an old Western chestnut, presaged Monroe's attempt at moving into Hollywood's singing-cowboy genre with a couple of early-'50s B-movies including “The Singing Guns” and “The Toughest Man in Arizona”. |
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| In 1952, The Guiding Light began airing on CBS television. Episodes were 15 minutes long. With the transition to television the main characters became the Bauers, a lower-middle class German immigrant family. |
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| Most people didn't know what Rock And Roll was when this was released, so the record company had a hard time describing the song. The label on the single called it a "Novelty Foxtrot." This was one of the first hits of the Rock era. Billboard had been keeping a Top 40 chart for only a few months when this came out. It stayed at #1 for 8 weeks. The group released this in 1954 as the B-side of a novelty song called "Thirteen Women," which was about an atomic blast that leaves only 1 man and 13 women alive. It wasn't until a year later that it was re-released and became a hit. |
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| A law passed by the 84th Congress (P.L. 84-140) and approved by the President on July 30, 1956, the President approved a Joint Resolution of the 84th Congress, declaring IN GOD WE TRUST the national motto of the United States. IN GOD WE TRUST was first used on paper money in 1957, when it appeared on the one-dollar silver certificate. |  |
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| In 1956, Lee signed with Decca Records, where she later united with the legendary producer Owen Bradley. Brenda's first recording session was on July 30, 1956. She recorded seven songs that day with Paul Cohen as her producer. The songs were: "Jambalaya," "Bigelow 6-200," "Some People," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus," "Doodle Bug Rag," and "Christy Christmas." |  |
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| In his ML debut, Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 with two triples off Robin Roberts to lead the Giants to a 72 win over the Phils. McCovey was hitting .372 with 29 home runs at Phoenix when promoted. |  |
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| It wasn't until 1960 when Lee took "Sweet Nothin's" to No. 4 on the pop charts that she made a major impact as a recording artist. Over the next 13 years, she scored two No. 1's ("I'm Sorry" and "I Want to Be Wanted"), four Top 5s and five Top 10s. While its short seasonal nature kept it from ever topping the charts, her "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," recorded in 1958, has become a holiday classic. |  |
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| President Johnson signing the Medicare program into law, July 30, 1965. At the bill-signing ceremony President Johnson enrolled President Truman as the first Medicare beneficiary and presented him with the first Medicare card. This is President Truman's application for the optional Part B medical care coverage, which President Johnson signed as a witness. |
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| The record was released just after John's infamous interview in which he stated that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus", which angered Americans and provoked many bans on their music and public incinerations of memorabilia. But Yesterday And Today would take public dispproval to a whole new level, as the original cover featured the band in butcher's smocks with baby doll parts and raw meat covering them. The record was pulled almost immediately - creating an instant collector's item - and in the confusion that followed, several replacement covers were issued. |
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| "Wild Thing" became known as "Caveman Rock." The Troggs is short for "troglodyte" (meaning "cave dweller"), which helped bolster this image. Over the next few years, The Troggs moved away from this Neanderthal sound and had a big hit in 1968 the much more evolved "Love Is All Around." This was written by a songwriter named Chip Taylor, who has made tons of money from it because it has been recorded by many artists and is constantly being used in movies and TV shows. |
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| In the first inning, Washington SS Ron Hansen turns the 8th unassisted triple play in ML history and the first in 41 years. Cleveland's Joe Azcue hits a liner to Hansen, who steps on 2B to double Dave Nelson, and tags Russ Snyder sliding into 2B for the 3rd out. Hansen's effort is not enough, as Washington loses 101. |  |
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| At 22:04:09 GMT on July 30, the LM descent propulsion system was fired for powered-descent initiation. The LM landed approximately 12 minutes later with sufficient propellant remaining to provide an additional hover time of 103 seconds, had it been required. Approximately 76 kg of lunar material including soil, rock, core-tube, and deep-core samples were returned to Earth. |
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| In late July it adopted three articles of impeachment against Nixon. The first article, which related to the Watergate break-in, charged the president with obstruction of justice. Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, before the full House could vote on impeachment and before the Senate had a chance to take any action. |
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| Former Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa was last seen outside a restaurant near Detroit, Michigan. His 13 year federal prison sentence had been commuted by President Richard M. Nixon in 1971. On December 8, 1982, seven years after his disappearance, an Oakland County judge declared Hoffa officially dead. |  |
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| Work started right away on Andy?s first album, “Flowing Rivers.” The album was released in the US on May 1, 1977 to well deserved rave reviews. The two songs released from this album: “I Just Want To Be Your Everything” and “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water” both reached number one in the Billboard charts and were certified Gold. Andy was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1978 (Best New Artist/ Best Song for “I Just Want To Be Your Everything”). |
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| "Every Breath You Take" was the biggest hit of 1983. It was US #1 for 8 weeks. It was one of the most misinterpreted songs ever. It is about an obsessive stalker, but it sounds like a love song. Some people even used it as their wedding song. It won Grammys in 1984 for Song Of The Year and Best Pop Performance By Duo Or Group With Vocal. |  |
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| Jackson passed the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig and taking over 13th place on the all-time home run list. In 21 seasons, Jackson played on 11 divisional winners, six pennant winners, and five World Champions. He has a .357 lifetime World Series average, nearly 100 points above his lifetime regular-season average, and the best career World Series slugging average at .755. His total of 563 HR was sixth all-time when he retired. His 2,597 strikeouts, however, are first all-time. |
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| Winwood recorded his first album for Virgin, 1988's Roll With It. The title track became his second number one and his biggest hit ever, and the album topped the charts as well; plus, the smoky ballad "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" was featured in a prominent TV ad campaign. |  |
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| John Franco saved his 13th game of July in Cincinnati's 20 win over San Diego, setting a major-league record for saves in one month. His career high of 39 saves for the Cincinnati Reds in 1989 was eclipsed the same year by Dennis Eckersley's total of 45. While with Cincinnati, he became their all-time saves leader, but the Reds went to the World Series after trading him to the Mets. |  |
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| Leslie received a pass from Latasha Byears, took two dribbles and dunked with 4:44 left in the half of the Los Angeles Sparks' 82-73 loss to the Miami Sol in a WNBA game at Staples Center. Leslie said she dunked for the first time when she was a 6-foot-4, 14-year-old freshman during a 1987 track practice that was moved into the school gymnasium because of rain at Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif. |  |
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| The last Beetle was produced in Puebla, Mexico, in mid-2003. The final batch of 3,000 Beetles were sold as 2004 models and badged as the Última Edición, with whitewall tires, a host of previously-discontinued chrome trim, and the choice of two special paint colors taken from the New Beetle. Some 21,529,464 Bugs were built there over 68 years. |  |
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| After stacking 27 Oreo cookies in 30 seconds, the 11-year-old Mesa boy waited for the count to come in via cellular phone from simultaneous competitions July 30 in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Puerto Rico and Mexico. With his family huddled around him, the nail-biting quickly turned to thunderous applause and cheers of "USA!" as it was announced that Jordan had outstacked all others in the inaugural global contest. |
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1619 House of Burgesses Virginia
formed, first elective US governing body
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1729 City of Baltimore founded
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1792 The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise,"
first song in Paris
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1844 First US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
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1864 Union forces try
to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a mine under Confederate defense
lines
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1898 "Scientific America" carried the
first magazine automobile ad
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1898 Corn Flakes invented
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1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
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1928 George Eastman demonstrates first color movie
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1933 The"Monopoly" board game was registered
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1933 Card's Dizzy Dean strikesout 17 Cubs to win 8-2
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1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays first base
& registers no put outs
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1942 "Stage Door Canteen" was first
heard on CBS radio
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a
bill creating the WAVES
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1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released
(Girl Crazy)
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1945 During World War II, the USS Indianapolis
was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine
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1946 First rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude,
White Sands, NM
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1949 "Riders in the Sky" by Vaughan
Monroe topped the charts
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1952 The popular radio soap opera, "The Guiding
Light," debuted on CBS Television
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1955 Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around
the Clock" tops billboards chart
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1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
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1956 Singer Brenda Lee recorded her first hit
for Decca Records
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1959 McCovey of the San Francisco
Giants batted 4-for-4 in his debut against Robin Roberts of the
Phillies
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1960 "I'm Sorry" by Brenda Lee topped
the charts
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1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into
effect following year
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1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today,"
album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
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1966 "Wild Thing" by Troggs topped the
charts
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1968 Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes first
unassisted triple-play in 41 years
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1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium
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1974 House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment
of Nixon
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1975 Former Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa
vanishes
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1977 "I Just Want to Be Your Everything"
by Andy Gibb topped the charts
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1983 "Every Breath You Take" by The
Police topped the charts
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1984 Reggie Jackson hit the 494th home run of
his career
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1988 "Roll with It" by Steve Winwood
topped the charts
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1988 Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record
of 13 saves in 1 month
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1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride,
pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr,
4 min)
2002 WNBA player Lisa Leslie became the first
woman to dunk in a professional game
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2003 The last Volkswagen Beetle was produced in
Mexico
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2005 Jordan White. of Mesa, AZ, wins the Global
Oreo Cookie Stackoff
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