History for July 30

History for July 30 - On-This-Day.com
Thornstein Velben 1857, Henry Ford 1863, Casey Stengel 1890


Thomas Sowell 1930, Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947, Lisa Kudrow 1963 - Actress ("Friends")


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.


2001 - Lance Armstrong became the first American to win three consecutive Tours de France.


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