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Today in History: July 30

1864 In an effort to penetrate the Confederate lines around Petersburg, Va. Union troops explode a mine underneath the Confederate trenches but fail to break through. The ensuing action is known as the Battle of the Crater.

1919 Federal troops are called out to put down Chicago race riots.

1938 George Eastman demonstrates his color motion picture process.

1965 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Bill into law.

1967 General William Westmoreland claims that he is winning the war in Vietnam, but needs more men.

1975 Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears, last seen coming out of a restaurant in Bloomingfield Hills, Michigan.

1990 Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent forces George Steinbrenner to resign as principal partner of the New York Yankees.

2003 The last of the uniquely shaped "old style" Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.

2012 Blackout in India as power grid failure leaves 300 million+ without power.


Born on July 30

1863 Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.

1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, body builder (Mr. Universe, seven-time Mr. Olympia), actor (Terminator, Total Recall), 38th governor of California.


JOTD

I bought a toilet brush yesterday

But I gotta say that I still prefer toilet paper!