July 30

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[edit] Events

• 1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
• 1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
• 1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
• 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

[edit] Births

• 1857 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
• 1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
• 1880 - Robert R. McCormick, newspaper publisher and isolationist (d. 1955)
• 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California

[edit] Deaths

• 1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
• 1898 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)