Sunday, July 30, 2017
Today is Sunday, July 30, the 211th day of 2017. There are 154 days left in the year.
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1619: The first representative assembly in America convenes in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.
1792: The French national anthem “La Marseillaise,” by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, is first sung in Paris by troops arriving from Marseille.
1864: During the Civil War, Union forces try to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack fails.
1916: German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, N.J., killing about a dozen people.
1918: Poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry Regiment, is killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is remembered for his poem “Trees.”)
1932: The Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles.
1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” – WAVES for short.
1945: The Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survive.
1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one).
1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a measure creating Medicare, which would begin operating the following year.
1975: Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.
1980: Israel’s Knesset passes a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
1997: Two men bomb Jerusalem’s most crowded outdoor market, killing themselves and 16 others.
Eighteen people are killed in a landslide that swept one ski lodge onto another at the Thredbo Alpine Village in southeast Australia.
2007: President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meeting at Camp David, forge a unified stand on Iraq, aiming to head off talk of a splintering partnership in the face of an unpopular war.
Chief Justice John Roberts is taken to a hospital after a seizure caused him to fall on a dock near his summer home in Maine.
Death claims Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman at age 89; Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni at age 94; and Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh at age 75.
2012: Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, on a visit to Israel, outrages Palestinians by telling Jewish donors that their culture was part of the reason Israel was more economically successful than the Palestinians’.
At the London Olympics, American teenager Missy Franklin wins the women’s 100-meter backstroke before Matt Grevers led a 1-2 finish for the U.S. in the men’s race. The Chinese win their second straight Olympic title in men’s gymnastics and third in four games after a dismal performance in qualifying.
2016: Sixteen people die when a hot-air balloon catches fire and explodes after hitting high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture near Lockhart, about 60 miles northeast of San Antonio.
Actress-singer Gloria DeHaven, 91, dies in Las Vegas.
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1992: Vice President Dan Quayle will stump for President George Bush in Hanoverton, which officials say is the first White House visit to Columbiana County since Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1963 visit, also as vice president.
Harry Valentino, president of Sugardale Foods in Canton, confirms plans to expand the Carriage Hill Foods plant in Salem, but says details aren’t available. Salem City Council votes to apply for a $300,000 state grant to modify the plant’s sewage system.
Two teenage girls from Columbus are in the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center after being arrested by Austintown police at a truck stop. They told police they were brought to the area by a man to work as prostitutes.
1977: The Warren City School District will receive $283,000 from the U.S. Office of Education for its Focus Center program that is aimed at desegregation, which is $157,000 less than had been requested.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Forrest J. Cavalier grants an injunction preventing the state from cutting payments for welfare patients at the Danridge Nursing Home on Oak Hill Avenue for at least two weeks.
City officials from Niles, Hubbard, Newton Falls, Columbiana and 17 other municipalities will fight a 35.9 percent increase in electricity rates proposed by Ohio Edison Co.
1967: Renovation of the sanctuary of New Bethel Baptist Church on Hillman Street is assured when more than $1,500 was received from “An Evening in Song” presented by James Perry.
A story by The Youngstown Vindicator’s James H. Grohl reports that Warren Mayor Raymond Schryver asked Councilman Edgar Dick Jr. to remain on city council even though Dick and his family moved to Ashtabula for a new job July 15.
Warren Harding High School’s 137-member marching band will go before national television cameras to provide half-time entertainment at the College All-Star football game at Soldiers Field in Chicago.
1942: Industrial salvage committees in Youngs-town plants and factories recovered 5,988 tons of scrap material over 60 days.
Mildred Rhea is crowned “Queen of the Golden Jubilee” at the opening of a week-long celebration in Ellwood City, Pa. Phyllis Duncan is named “Miss Columbia.”
Joseph Vargo, a 61-year-old immigrant farmer in Berlin Center, will record his experience as a farmer in the United States working to provide food needed by European countries for shortwave broadcasts to Europe. Julius Ragalyi of Kinsman will also make a recording.