What happened today in history
- July 30, 1419 First Defenestration of Prague.
- July 30, 1608 “At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.”
- July 30, 1619 “House of Burgesses Virginia formed, the first elective US governing body”
- July 30, 1619 “In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.”
- July 30, 1629 “An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.”
- July 30, 1729 “Baltimore, Maryland is founded.”
- July 30, 1729 City of Baltimore founded
- July 30, 1733 First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
- July 30, 1733 Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston
- July 30, 1756 Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
- July 30, 1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France’s national anthem for first time
- July 30, 1822 James Varick becomes first bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
- July 30, 1825 Malden Island discovered.
- July 30, 1836 The first English newspaper published in Hawaii
- July 30, 1839 “Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad”
- July 30, 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.”
- July 30, 1863 “Pres Lincoln issues “”eye-for-eye”” order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot”
- July 30, 1866 “New Orleans’s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.”
- July 30, 1870 “Staten Island ferry “”Westfield”” burns, killing 100″
- July 30, 1898 “””Scientific America”” carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to “”Dispense with a Horse.”””
- July 30, 1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
- July 30, 1909 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball’s National League
- July 30, 1909 US Army accepts delivery of first military airplane
- July 30, 1913 Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War
- July 30, 1916 “German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ”
- July 30, 1918 “Units of First Marine Aviation Force arrive at Brest, France”