On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 30:
1818 Emily Bront‰ England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, Bvt Brig General (Union volunteers)
1837 Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1855 James Edward Kelly US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
1857 Thorstein Veblen US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
1863 Henry Ford Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford)
1880 Robert Rutherford McCormick US, editor/publisher Chicago Tribune
1887 Timothy Mara NFL owner (NY Giants)
1889 Vladimir Zworykin electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
1890 Casey Stengel NY Yankee (1949-60) & 1st NY Met manager
1899 Gerald Moore England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
1909 Cyril Northcote Parkinson England, historian (Pursuit of Progress)
1924 William Gass Fargo, ND, novelist, philosopher (Omensetter's Luck)
1929 Christine McGuire Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
1929 Sid Kroft Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
1930 Thomas Sowell, author/activist/really smart guy
1933 Edd "Kookie" Byrnes LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
1934 Bud Selig, owner (Milw Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner
1934 Ben Piazza Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas)
1936 Ralph Taeger Richmond Hill NY, actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo)
1936 George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
1939 Eleanor Smeal heads National Organization for Women
1939 Peter Bogdanovich director/producer (The Last Picture Show)
1940 Patricia Schroeder (Rep-D-Colo)
1941 Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) Binghamton NY, sword swallower
1941 Paul Anka Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1945 David Sanborn saxophonist (David Letterman)
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger Austria, body builder/actor/politican (Commando, Terminator)
1947 William Atherton Ct, actor (Real Genius, Ghostbusters, Class of 44)
1950 Frank Stallone NYC, actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force)
1956 Delta Burke Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
1958 Daley Thomas London, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984)
1958 Kate Bush Plumstead England, singer/songwriter (Wild Things)
1963 Monique Gabrielle LA Cal, actress (Bad Girls 4, Amazon Women on Moon)
1977 Suangsuda Rodprasert, Miss Thailand Universe (1997)
Deaths which occurred on July 30:
0579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer
1771 Thomas Gray, English poet ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"), dies at 54
1863 George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1865 George Wright, US Union brig-general, dies at 61
1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
1912 Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
1914 Jean Jaur‚s leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1918 Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
1967 Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59
1983 Howard Deitz MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease
1983 Lynn Fontanne Broadway's premier actresses, dies at 95
1993 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
1996 Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1967 BISCAILUZ ROBERT LYNN MIDWAY CITY CA.
1967 BYARS EARNEST RAY HOUSTON TX.
1967 FREDERICK DAVID A. COLUMBUS OH.
1967 WATERMAN CRAIG H. REHOBOTH MA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 06/08/93]
1968 BEYER THOMAS J. FARGO ND
1970 BROWN DONALD A. PHOENIX AZ.
1970 CHAVEZ GARY A. NEW YORK NY.
1972 BRECKNER WILLIAM J. JR. SEBRING OH.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 1998]
1972 PRICE LARRY D. ORLANDO FL.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, DECEASED
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0657 St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa) Holy Roman Emperor crowned King of Burgundy
1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows
1619 House of Burgesses Virginia formed, 1st elective US governing body
1729 City of Baltimore founded
1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1844 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1864 Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1874 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Naval Treaty" (BG)
1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #570 Kythera
1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
1909 US Army accepts delivery of 1st military airplane
1911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #716 Berkeley
1913 Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War
1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #951 Gaspra
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1928 George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie
1932 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2253 Espinette
1935 1st Penguin book is published starting the paperback revolution
1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1944 US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1948 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2718
1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1963 British spy Kim Philby discovered in Moscow
1964 US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo North Vietnam
1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year
1966 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1969 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1970 Smirnova discover asteroid 1835 Gajdariya, 2032 Ethel & 2349 Kurchenko
1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
1976 Kate Smith made her last public appearance, singing her trademark number, God Bless America on a TV program honoring the U.S. Bicentennial.
1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1980 The Israeli Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state
1980 British New Hebrides becomes independent & takes name Vanuatu
1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1988 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignty over West Bank to PLO
1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1990 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Cuba : Day of Martyrs of the Revolution
France : Marseillaise Day (1792)
Thailand : Asalha Puja
Virginia : Crater Day (1864)
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival ( Friday )
[Virginia] Crater Day
Vanuata Independence Day (from Britain and France).
National Lamb and Wool Month
Religious Observances
Buddhist-Bhutan : Buddha's 1st preaching
Christ : Commemoration of SS Abdon & Sennen, martyrs
RC : Memorial of Peter Chrysologus, bishop & doctor
Ang : Commemoration of William Wilberforce
Religious History
1629 The Puritans of Salem, Mass. appointed Francis Higginson as their teacher andSamuel Skelton as their pastor. The church covenant, composed afterward by these two men,allowed into communion only those who could prove a sound doctrinal knowledge and anexperience of grace in their lives.
1718 Death of William Penn, 74, English Quaker and founder of American colony ofPennsylvania. Penn permitted in his colony all forms of public worship compatible with monotheism and religious liberty.
1822 Pioneer church founder James Varick, 72, was consecrated the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
1956 By an act of Congress, signed by President Eisenhower, 'In God We Trust' becamethe official U.S. motto.
1976 Death of Rudolf Bultmann, 92, German Bible scholar and one of the three majorpioneers of modern form 'criticism' (i.e., 'analysis') of the New Testament Gospels.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them"
Things To Do If You Ever Became An Evil Overlord...
DO NOT EVER ignore the messenger that stumbles in exhausted and obviously agitated until your personal grooming or current entertainment is finished. It might actually be important.
Letters To God From The Dog...
Dear God,
More meatballs, less spaghetti.
Dumb Laws...
Idaho:
Illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
How To Annoy Osama bin Laden If You're Invited To A Dinner Party At His Secret Afghan Lair...
Correct him when he ends a sentence with a preposition.
