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July 30: on this day

July 30: on this day

July 30

On this day in . . .  

1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

1729 Baltimore, Maryland is founded.

1932 – Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.

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1954 
Elvis performed with The Blue Moon Boys in his first paid appearance at the Overton Park Shell, with Slim Whitman headlining.
 
 

 

1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon. (Astronaut David Scott gives salute beside the U.S. flag July 30, 1971 on the moon during the Apollo 15 mission. Photo: NASA/Liaison/Getty Images)

 

1974 Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.

 

1975Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
 

1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.

 

2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

 

2006 – World’s longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

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