July 30<\/p>\n
762 \u2013 Baghdad is founded on the ruins of the city of Babylon by the Abbasid Caliphate.<\/p>\n
1502 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.<\/p>\n
1619 \u2013 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.<\/p>\n
1676 \u2013 Nathaniel Bacon issues the “Declaration of the People of Virginia”, beginning Bacon’s Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.<\/p>\n
1718 \u2013 William Penn, the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, dies at his home in Ruscombe, England.<\/p>\n
1729 \u2013 Baltimore, Maryland is founded<\/p>\n
1863 \u2013 Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders, including Shoshone Chief Pocatello, sign the Treaty of Box Elder<\/em>, compensating the tribe for their land claim at a rate of about 50\u00a2 per acre.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 The steamboat Brother Jonathan<\/em> sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, with the loss of 225 passengers.<\/p>\n 1871 \u2013 While docked at the South Ferry slip on Manhattan island, the steam boiler of the Staten Island Ferry Westfield<\/em> explodes, killing 126 people aboard, and on land and injuring hundreds more.<\/p>\n 1881 \u2013 Marine General Smedley Butler, the last servicemember to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor is born in West Chester, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 On the way to the Philippines after delivering the components for the Little Boy<\/em> nuclear bomb, the USS Indianapolis<\/em> is torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58, killing 883 crewmen. Most die during the following four days afloat in the ocean, until an aircraft notices the survivors.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust<\/em> as the U.S. national motto.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act<\/em> into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 The Apollo 15 Lunar Module Falcon<\/em>, piloted by David Scott and James Irwin, lands on the Moon near Hadley Rille\u00a0<\/em>with the first Lunar Rover aboard,\u00a0 for a 3 day visit.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 President Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, never to be seen again.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 NASA’s Mars 2020<\/em> mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Perseverance<\/em> rover and Ingenuity<\/em> helicopter aboard.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 Nichelle Nichols, Uhura of Star Trek fame, dies of heart failure in Silver City, New Mexico, age 89.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 30 762 \u2013 Baghdad is founded on the ruins of the city of Babylon by the Abbasid Caliphate. 1502 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1619 \u2013 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94794,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70245\/revisions\/94794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}