A bit of July 30th history...
101 BC - Battle of Vercellae: Roman army under Gaius Marius defeats the Cimbri in Cisalpine Gaul, ending the Celto-Germanic threat on Italy’s border with over 100,000 Cimbri killed
1619 - House of Burgesses form in Virginia - 1st elective American body
1863 - President Lincoln issues “eye-for-eye” order - to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1928 - George Eastman shows 1st amateur color motion picture to guests at his NY house including Thomas Edison
1932 - Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees” premiers; 1st academy award winning cartoon and 1st cartoon short to use Technicolor (pictured)
1935 - 1st penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1945 - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine; only 316 out of 1196 survived, most were attacked by sharks (see Jaws)
1965 - US President Johnson signed into law Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid; went into effect following year
1974 - US House of Reps Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon for blocking Watergate investigation and for abuse of power
2006 - World’s longest running music show “Top of the Pops” is broadcast for the last time - aired for 42 years