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Today is Sunday, July 30, the 211th day of 2017. There are 154 days left in the year.

Highlight in history

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare.

On this date

In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.

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

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

In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit.

In 1980, Israel’s Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.

In 2012, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, on a visit to Israel, outraged Palestinians by telling Jewish donors that their culture was part of the reason Israel was more economically successful than the Palestinians.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Edd “Kookie” Byrnes is 84. Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 83. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 78. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal is 78. Former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder is 77. Singer Paul Anka is 76. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 72. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 70. Law professor Anita Hill is 61. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 59. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 56. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 54. Actress Vivica A. Fox is 53. Actress Hilary Swank is 43.