TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2019 On this day in history:

1502 - Christopher Columbus landed at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.

1768 - James Cook receives sealed secret orders prior to his first journey in the Endeavour.

1932 - Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees premiered. It was the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor.

1945 - During WWII, a Japanese submarine fires two torpedoes at the USS Indianapolis, 880 die as a result.

1956 - The phrase In God We Trust was adopted as the U.S. national motto.

1973 - Makers of the drug Thalidomide, responsible for countless deformities in children, finally agree to compensate the victims to the amount of 20 million pounds sterling.

1987 - Indian troops arrived in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, to disarm the Tamil Tigers and enforce a peace pact.

1991 - In China, construction began on the Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower.

1997 - The Alpine Way above Thredbo, NSW, collapses, causing a landslide that kills 18, but ends with the amazing rescue of Stuart Diver.

2000 - Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were married.

2003 - In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolled off an assembly line.

BIRTHDAYS

Emily Bronte 1818 Thornstein Velben 1857 Henry Ford 1863 Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin 1889

Casey Stengel 1890 Henry Moore 1898 Dick Wilson 1916 Richard Johnson 1927 Christine McGuire 1929 Thomas Sowell 1930 Edd “Kookie” Byrnes 1933 Ben Piazza 1934 Buddy Guy 1936