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[On this day] 30th July

1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people. 1729 - City of Baltimore founded 1733...
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13.08 30 Jul 2012


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[On this day] 30th July

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1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.

1729 - City of Baltimore founded

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1733 - First Freemasons’s lodge is opened in what will become the United States.

1739 - Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ

1792 - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France’s national anthem for 1st time

1825 - Malden Island is discovered.

1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

1839 - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad

1866 - Race riot in New Orleans

1870 - Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100

1872 - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy

1878 - German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election

1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Naval Treaty” (BG)

1898 - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes

1905 - Dutch Covenant of Worker’s union, NVV, forms

1908 - Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris

1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army

1913 - Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War

1928 - George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)

1930 - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer’s 1st World Cup in Montevideo

1932 - 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1933 - 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)

1935 - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1942 - FDR signs bill creating women’s Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1948 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K – 29:59.6)

1948 - Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)

1955 - Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France

1956 - US motto “In God We Trust” authorised

1963 - British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow

1966 - Anniversary of England’s 4-2 World Cup final victory over West Germany at the old Wembley stadium

id="story">1999 -  The worst blackout in Taiwanese history cuts off electricity to 7 million households — one-third of the island.

id="story">2000 – North and South Korea announce they will reopen border liaison offices and reconnect a rail line linking the two countries.

id="story">2008 - A team of European scientists unveils a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters’ paintings, recreating a colour portrait of a woman’s face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.

id="story">2010 - President Nicolas Sarkozy says that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a “national war” on delinquency.

Famous Birthdays

1818 - Emily Jane Bronte, Thornton England, novelist (Wuthering Heights), (d. 1848)

1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d. 1947)

1872 - Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte

1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe

1930 - Thomas Sowell, author/activist

1933 - Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)

1934 - Andre Prevost, composer

1936 - George “Buddy” Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)

1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, Kingston NY, director/producer (Last Picture Show)


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