July 30 - Cabana Boy

Cabana Boy

This Day In History

1619

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

1729

Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.

1916

Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.

1932

Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

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.

1971

Apollo 15 – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

2003

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Famous Birthdays

1511

Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, biographer, art historian and architect (d. 1574)

1751

Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)

1818

Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)

1825

Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor, academic and memoirs writer (d. 1893)

1863

Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)

1898

Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)

1927

Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)

1929

Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer

1936

Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer

1958

Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter and humanitarian

1961

Laurence Fishburne, American actor

1962

Alton Brown, American television host and chef
1970
Christopher Nolan, English film director
1974
Hilary Swank, American actress
1975
Cherie Priest, American writer