On this day, July 30

1833 The Gazette, under management of John I. Scull and Morgan Neville, became a daily newspaper.

1908 The first round-the-world automobile race, which had begun in New York in February, ended in Paris with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.

1958 Leland Hazard, vice president and general counsel of the Pittsburgh Plate-Glass Company, was named professor of industrial administration and law at Carnegie Institute of Technology.

1987 The Rev. Donald Nesti resigned as president of Duquesne University, ending weeks of public controversy.

Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).

— Compiled by Rick Nowlin

Today’s birthdays: Blues musician Buddy Guy,

84. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich, 81. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal, 81. Singer Paul Anka, 79. Former California Gov. and Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 73. Blues singermusician Otis Taylor, 72. Actor Frank Stallone,

70. Actress Delta Burke, 64. Law professor Anita Hill, 64. Movie director Richard Linklater,

60. Actor Laurence Fishburne, 59. Actress Lisa Kudrow, 57. Actress Vivica A. Fox, 56. Actor Terry Crews, 52. Movie director Christopher Nolan, 50. Actor Tom Green, 49. Actress Hilary Swank, 46. Actress Jaime Pressly, 43. Soccer player Hope Solo, 39. Actress Gina Rodriguez,

36. Actor Nico Tortorella, 32. Actress Joey King, 21.

Thought for today: “An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”

— Sen. Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005)