History for July 30

History for July 30 - On-This-Day.com:
Thornstein Velben 1857, Henry Ford 1863, Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin 1889 - Invented the iconoscope, called the "Father of Television"


Casey Stengel 1890, Thomas Sowell 1930, Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947


1619 - The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, VA. (House of Burgesses)


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.


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.


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.


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


2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagon Beetle rolled off an assembly line.