On This Day:
Wednesday July 30, 2014 This is the 211th day of the year, with 154 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: bronze Harder than copper and pure iron and more resistant to corrosion, bronze started being displaced by iron in tools and weapons from about 1000 BC only because iron was more abundant.
Holidays Feast day of St. Julitta of Caesarea, St. Tatwin, archbishop of Canterbury, Saints Abdon and Sennen, and St. Peter Chrysologus.
Vanuatu: Independence Day.
Events 1619 - A representative colonial assembly - the first in America - was held at Jamestown, Virginia, under the new governor of the colony, Sir George Yeardley.
1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded.
1928 - The MGM lion roared for the first time.
1935 - The first Penguin paperback book was published.
1938 - George Eastman demonstrated his color motion picture process.
1945 - The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
1952 - "The Guiding Light," a popular radio show, premiered on television.
1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law; it took effect the following year.
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted a third article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: contempt of Congress in hindering the impeachment process. The previous two impeachment articles voted against Nixon by the committee were obstruction of justice and abuse of presidential powers.
1975 - Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.
1991 - The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was signed.
Births 1818 - Emily Bronte, British author.
1863 - Henry Ford, American auto manufacturer.
1880 - Robert McCormick, American newspaper editor and publisher of the "Chicago Tribune."
1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, called "Father of Television" for inventing the iconoscope.
1890 - Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager.
1898 - Henry Moore, English sculptor.
1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer, songwriter.
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor and governor of California.
Deaths 1718 - William Penn, English Quaker leader.
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German politician and prime minister of Prussia.
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