July 30 In History!

Another Wikipedia-Fueled Post!

1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. (Isn't defenestration a great word?)

1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years. (Gee, ya think??)

1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
(This sets the tone for 150 years of Democratic & Police Corruption in N.O.)

1932 - Olympic Games: The Games of the X Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California.

1945 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. (Providing the historical basis for Quint's speech in 'Jaws', one of the best scenes in a movie ever!)

1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
(Hail to the King, Baby!)

1968 - El Capitan born, Dallas, TX

1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission - David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.

1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.


July 30 Births

1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1763 - Samuel Rogers, English author (d. 1855)
1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1898 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
1904 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
1922 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1929 - Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer
1934 - Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
1936 - Buddy Guy, American guitarist and singer
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1945 - David Sanborn, American saxophonist
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, bodybuilder, & Governator
1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1950 - Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
1956 - Delta Burke, American actress
1957 - Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)
1958 - Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter
1960 - Richard Linklater, American director
1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1962 - Alton Brown, American television host and chef
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1964 - Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress
1977 - Jaime Pressly, American actress


July 30 Deaths
579 - Pope Benedict I
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1718 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1912 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1945 - A sh!tload of sailors off of the USS Indianapolis
1996 - Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2007 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 - Bill Walsh, Hall of Fame Football Coach