July 30

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.
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.
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.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

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