TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 30
1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or killed by crowd outside.
1619 The House of Burgesses convenes for the first time at Jamestown, Va.
1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1729 The U.S. city of Baltimore was founded.
1863 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah
1898 “Scientific America” carried the first magazine automobile ad. The ad was for the Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH.
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1919 Federal troops are called out to put down Chicago race riots.
1938 George Eastman demonstrates his color motion picture process.
1942 FDR signs bill creating women’s Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1965 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Bill into law.
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin land on the moon with the first lunar rover used to begin exploring the moon’s surface.
1975 Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears, last seen coming out of a restaurant in Bloomingfield Hills, Michigan.
1988 King Hussein dissolves Jordan’s Parliament, surrenders Jordan’s claims to the West Bank to the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1990 In Spring Hill, TN, the first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line.
2003 The last of the uniquely shaped “old style” Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.
2012 Blackout in India as power grid failure leaves 300 million+ without power.
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