TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Saturday, July 30, the 212th day of 2016. There are 154 days left in the year.
1811 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico. 1859 First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps. 1865 The steamboat Brother Jonathan
sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers. It is the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific coast of the US at the time. 1866 Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100. 1871 The Staten Island Ferry Westfield’s boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. 1912 Japan’s Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taisho. 1930 In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Fifa World Cup. 1932 Premiere of Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. 1945 Japanese submarine I- 58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing
883 seamen. 1956 A joint resolution of the US Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorising “In God we trust” as the US national motto. 1962 The Trans- Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened. 1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. 1966 England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 Fifa World Cup at Wembley after extra time. 1971 Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo lunar module
Falcon land on the Moon with the first lunar rover. 1973 An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F- 86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162. 1974 Watergate Scandal: US President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. 1980 Israel’s Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law. 2006 The world’s longest running music show,
Top of the Pops, is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. 2012 A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
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