HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE
Today is Tuesday, July 30, the 211th day of 2013. There are 154 days left in the year.
1419 Czech Hussites throw seven members of the Prague town council from a window and start a rebellion. King Wenceslas IV dies of a heart attack upon hearing of the incident.
1619 America’s first representative Assembly convenes in Jamestown, Virginia.
1646 French troops, aided by the Swedish Army, invade Bavaria to bring Thirty Years’ War to a close.
1709 British forces under Duke of Marlborough and Savoy’s Prince Eugene defeat French at Tournai in Belgium.
1907 Elections are held in Philippines for the country’s first Assembly. The new 80- member Assembly is directly elected by a restricted electorate, making it the first elective legislative body in Southeast Asia.
1916 German saboteurs blow up munitions plant on Black Tom Island, near Jersey City, New Jersey, before United States’ entry in World War I.
1930 Host Uruguay wins first soccer World Cup, at Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium, beating Argentina 42. Kurds stage uprising on PersianTurkish frontier.
1945 The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men on board survive in shark- infested waters.
1948 Hungarian leader Zoltan Tildy is forced to resign. Amnesty is proclaimed in Philippines for Huk rebels, but they refuse to comply.
1953 Britain signs alliance with Libya.
1967 The US bomber offensive against North Vietnam is extended to the demilitarised zone separating North and South Vietnam, bringing new Communist protests and adding to diplomatic tensions.
1971 US Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin land on the Moon.
1974 Greece, Turkey and Britain sign declaration for ceasefire agreement on Cyprus.
1977 Syrian soldiers of Arab League’s peacekeeping force in Lebanon set up gun positions around two main Palestinian refugee camps to help control rebels.
1982 Panamanian President Aristides Royo Sanchez resigns two years before the end of his six- year term under pressure from the country’s military leaders.