Saturday, July 30, 2011

July 30

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1619 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. Nas Represent Illmatic
2 1729 Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland. S.T. Monroe The Baltimore Vision Forge Again Records Sampler 2002
3 1932 Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. Coldplay Life in Technicolor Viva la Vida
4 1956 A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto. The Pretty Things Trust S.F. Sorrow
5 1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. Melt Banana Smell the Medicine Speak Squeak Creak
6 1975 Jimmy 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, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982. The Girlfriends My One and Only, Jimmy Boy One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found
7 1978 The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side. The Sea and Cake Left Side Clouded One Bedroom
8 2003 In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. Of Montreal Sleeping in the Beetle Bug Cherry Peel

(Historical facts about July 30 are from Wikipedia.)

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