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July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 154 days remain until the end of the year.
The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black Freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had been soldiers of the recently defeated Confederate States of America, leading to a full-scale massacre. [4] The violence erupted outside the Mechanics Institute, site of a ...
United States/Anniversaries/July/July 30. 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the America, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. 1863 – Henry Ford (pictured), industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, is born.
United States/On this day/July 30. January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December. 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 ...
July 2, 1964 (Thursday) U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States in public schools, public accommodations and travel, and in voting registration. [6] The move came hours after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 289 to 126 to approve the bill as amended by ...
July 1, 1960 (Friday) July 1, 1960: Transfer ceremony at Marshall Space Flight Center. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, became the Marshall Space Flight Center, a field center of the civilian National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Wernher von Braun was the center's first director.
Portal:United States/Anniversaries/July/July 24. 1897 – Amelia Earhart (pictured), known both for accomplishments as an aviation pioneer and for her disappearance over the central Pacific Ocean, was born. 1943 – Operation Gomorrah, a massive bombing campaign targeting the city of Hamburg, begins. American airplanes bomb the city by day, and ...
July 30. Portrait of Miguel Hidalgo by Antonio Fabrés. 1724 – Bach 's chorale cantata Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, a paraphrase of Psalm 124 based on a 1524 hymn by Justus Jonas, was first performed in Leipzig. 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (depicted), a leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish forces ...