Today in History (July 30th):
1619: In Jamestown, Va., the first elected legislative assembly in the New World — the House of Burgesses — convened in the choir loft of the town’s church.
1729: Baltimore, Md., was founded.
1733: The first Freemasons lodge was opened in what would become the United States.
1818: Birthdays: English novelist Emily Bronte.
1863: Birthdays: Auto pioneer Henry Ford.
1890: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Casey Stengel.
1898: Birthdays: English sculptor Henry Moore.
1922: Birthdays: Businessman and philanthropist Henry W. Bloch.
1930: Uruguay won the World Cup soccer tournament.
1932: Walt Disney released his first color cartoon, Flowers and Trees, made in three-color Technicolor.
1934: Birthdays: Baseball Commissioner Allan Bud Selig.
1936: Author Margaret Mitchell sold the film rights for Gone With the Wind to MGM for $50,000, most ever for a first novel.
1939: Birthdays: Film director Peter Bogdanovich.
1941: Birthdays: Singer Paul Anka.
1947: Birthdays: Former California governor/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1948: Birthdays: Actor Jean Reno.
1954: Birthdays: Actor Ken Olin.
1956: Birthdays: Actor Delta Burke.
1961: Birthdays: Actor Laurence Fishburne.
1963: Birthdays: Actor Lisa Kudrow.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Vivica A. Fox.
1970: Birthdays: Writer/director Christopher Nolan.
1971: Lunar Module Falcon, part of the Apollo 15 mission, lands on the moon.
1974: The U.S. House Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 21-17, approved a third article of impeachment against U.S. President Richard Nixon, charging him with ignoring congressional subpoenas. Nixon resigned before the issue went to trial. Birthdays: Actor Hilary Swank.
1975: Former Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa was last seen outside a suburban Detroit restaurant. He was declared dead in 1982.
1976: Kate Smith made her last public appearance on this date, singing her signature number God Bless America on a TV program honoring the U.S. Bicentennial.
1977: Birthdays: Olympic champion beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor.
1991: A special U.N. commission to Iraq announced it had found 46,000 chemical shells and warheads and 3,000 tons of raw materials for weapons.
2002: Pope John Paul II was present for the canonization of Pedro de San Jose Betanur of Guatemala, Central America’s first saint, and Juan Diego of Mexico City, first American Indian saint.
2006: An Israeli air raid leveled a building housing civilians in the Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 65 people, mostly women and children. Israeli officials said the wrong building was hit.
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2008: Embroiled in a corruption investigation into alleged events before he became Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert announced he was resigning his post as soon as his party chose a new leader.
2009: Britain, Australia and Romania pulled their remaining forces from Iraq, leaving the United States and its almost 130,000 troops as the sole remnant of the 2003 multinational invading coalition.
2010: More than 1,500 people were reported dead after Pakistan was wracked by record rainfall and massive flooding. Officials said 4 million people had been displaced.
2012: U.S. President Barack Obama told a campaign rally in New York: If the election were held today I think it would be close but I think we’d win. Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in November. He won 332 electoral votes (270 required) and 51 percent of the popular vote.
Quotes
“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.” – Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. President
“A woman whom we truly love is a religion.” – Emile de Girardin, journalist and politician (1802-1881)
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck, 1905-1956
“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.” – William Thackeray, 1811-1863
“Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.” – Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) English writer:
“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”
“A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”
“Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
“I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.”
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.”
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