Updated July 29, 2012, 2:28 pm
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
On July 30, 1863, Henry Ford, the American automobile manufacturer who founded the Ford Motor Company, was born. Following his death on April 7, 1947, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1619 The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Va. 1729 The city of Baltimore was founded. 1792 The French national anthem, “La Marseillaise” by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris. 1863 American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Mich. 1930 Host Uruguay won soccer’s first World Cup with a 4-2 victory over Argentina in the final in Montevideo. 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES. 1945 The USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; 880 men lost their lives. 1966 England won the World Cup when Geoff Hurst scored a hat trick in a 4-2 victory over West Germany at London’s Wembley Stadium. 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin landed on the moon. 1975 Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. (His remains have never been found.) 2002 Expelled from Congress a week earlier, James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption. 2008 Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was extradited to The Hague to face genocide charges after nearly 13 years on the run. Current Birthdays
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Actress Hilary Swank turns 38 years old today.
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Actress Lisa Kudrow (“Friends”) turns 49 years old today
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1934 Bud Selig, Baseball commissioner, turns 78 1936 Buddy Guy, Blues guitarist, turns 76 1939 Peter Bogdanovich, Director, turns 73 1939 Eleanor Smeal, Feminist activist, turns 73 1941 Paul Anka, Singer, turns 71 1945 David Sanborn, Jazz saxophonist, turns 67 1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, actor, turns 65 1948 Jean Reno, Actor, turns 64 1956 Delta Burke, Actress (“Designing Women”), turns 56 1958 Kate Bush, Rock singer, turns 54 1960 Richard Linklater, Director, turns 52 1961 Laurence Fishburne, Actor, turns 51 1964 Vivica A. Fox, Actress, turns 48 1969 Simon Baker, Actor, turns 43 1970 Christopher Nolan, Director (“Batman” movies), turns 42 1971 Tom Green, Actor, comedian, turns 41 1971 Christine Taylor, Actress, turns 41 1973 Dean Edwards, Actor, comedian, turns 39 1977 Jaime Pressley, Actress, turns 35
Historic Birthdays
Henry Ford 7/30/1863 – 4/7/1947 American industrialist who changed production with his assembly line methods.Go to obituary »
84 Michael Morris Killanin 7/30/1914 – 4/25/1999
Irish author and president of the International Olympic Committee83 C. Northcote Parkinson 7/30/1909 – 3/9/1993
English historian, author, and formulator of “Parkinson’s Law”88 Henry Moore 7/30/1898 – 8/31/1986
English sculptor; one of the greatest of the 20th century85 Casey Stengel 7/30/1890 – 9/29/1975
American professional baseball player and manager92 Vladimir Zworykin 7/30/1889 – 7/29/1982
Russian-born American inventor and the father of television74 Robert McCormick 7/30/1880 – 4/1/1955
American newspaper editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune72 Richard Burdon Haldane 7/30/1856 – 8/19/1928
Scottish lawyer, philosopher, and statesman30 Emily Bronte 7/30/1818 – 12/19/1848
English novelist and poet; wrote “Wuthering Heights”62 Giorgio Vasari 7/30/1511 – 6/27/1574
Italian painter, architect, historian and writer
