Today In History

Today is Tuesday, July 30, the 211th day of 2019. There are 154 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one).

ON THIS DATE

› 1619: The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.

› 1916: German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, New Jersey, killing about a dozen people.

› 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” — WAVES for short.

› 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year.

› 1975: Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.

› 2001: Robert Mueller, President George W. Bush’s choice to head the FBI, promised the Senate Judiciary Committee that if confirmed, he would move forcefully to fix problems at the agency. (Mueller became FBI director on Sept. 4, 2001, a week before the 9/11 attacks.)

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor Edd “Kookie” Byrnes is 86. Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 85. Actor William Atherton is 72. Actor Jean Reno is 71. Blues singer-musician Otis Taylor is

71. Actor Frank Stallone is

69. Actor Ken Olin is 65. Actress Delta Burke is 63. Law professor Anita Hill is 63. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 61. Country singer Neal McCoy is 61. Actor Richard Burgi is

61. Actor Terry Crews is

51. Actor Simon Baker is

50. Actor Donnie Keshawarz is 50. Movie director Christopher Nolan is

49. Actor Tom Green is

48. Rock musician Brad Hargreaves (Third Eye Blind) is 48. Actress Christine Taylor is 48. Actress Jaime Pressly is

42. Actress April Bowlby is 39. Soccer player Hope Solo is 38. Actress Yvonne Strahovski is 37. Actor Martin Starr is 37. Actress Gina Rodriguez is

35. Actor Nico Tortorella is 31. Actress Joey King is 20.