Updated July 30, 2014, 5:33 am
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
| 1619 | The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Va. |
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| 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. |
Historic Birthdays
Henry Ford
7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947
American industrialist who changed production with his assembly line methods.Go to obituary »
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Michael Morris Killanin 7/30/1914 - 4/25/1999 Irish author and president of the International Olympic Committee |
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C. Northcote Parkinson 7/30/1909 - 3/9/1993 English historian, author, and formulator of "Parkinson's Law" |
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Henry Moore 7/30/1898 - 8/31/1986 English sculptor; one of the greatest of the 20th century |
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Casey Stengel 7/30/1890 - 9/29/1975 American professional baseball player and manager |
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Vladimir Zworykin 7/30/1889 - 7/29/1982 Russian-born American inventor and the father of television |
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Robert McCormick 7/30/1880 - 4/1/1955 American newspaper editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune |
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Richard Burdon Haldane 7/30/1856 - 8/19/1928 Scottish lawyer, philosopher, and statesman |
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Emily Bronte 7/30/1818 - 12/19/1848 English novelist and poet; wrote "Wuthering Heights" |
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Giorgio Vasari 7/30/1511 - 6/27/1574 Italian painter, architect, historian and writer |