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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