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July 30

1619
The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Va.

1718
Death of William Penn, English Quaker and founder of American colony of Pennsylvania, at age 74.

1729
The city of Baltimore was founded.

1863
American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Mich.

1864
Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, during the Civil War by exploding a mine under Confederate defense lines. The attack failed.

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 of the 1196 aboard lost their lives.

1956
By an act of Congress, signed by President Eisenhower, 'In God We Trust' became the official U.S. motto.

1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law.

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. Although he is presumed dead, his remains have never been found.

1998
"Buffalo Bob" Smith, the cowboy-suited host of "The Howdy Doody Show," died at age 80.

2002
WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks became the first woman to dunk in a professional game during her team's 82-73 loss to the Miami Sol.