Wednesday, July 30, 2014

History for July 30

History for July 30 - On-This-Day.com
Emily Bronte’s birth anniversary (1818-48).







Henry Ford’s birth anniversary (1863-1947).


125th birth anniversary of scientist Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982), father of television (inventor of the iconoscope, kinescope, electron microscope, infrared vision).

In 1811, Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (Father Hidalgo) was executed in Chihuahua.


Happy Birthday! Paul Anka, Edd Byrnes, Laurence Fishburne, Anita Hill, Lisa Kudrow,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,




1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women's Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service were a part of the U.S. Navy. 


1954, 19 year-old Elvis Presley appeared in concert for the first time at Memphis, TN. He was billed third (the headliner was Slim Whitman).



1956 - The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto. 


1965 - U.S. President Johnson signed into law Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid. It went into effect the following year. 


1974 - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon for blocking the Watergate investigation and for abuse of power. 


In 1975, union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. He was declared dead July 30, 1982.


1990 - In Spring Hill, TN, the first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line. 

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