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Indianapolis off Mare Island, on 10 July 1945.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Associated Press<\/p>\n

Today in History: \u00a0July 30, 2015<\/p>\n

1619- The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Va.
\n1729- The city of Baltimore was founded.
\n1792- The French national anthem, “La Marseillaise” by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.
\n1863- American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Mich.
\n1930- Host Uruguay won soccer’s first World Cup with a 4-2 victory over Argentina in the final in Montevideo.
\n1942- 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.
\n1945- 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 lost their lives.
\n1966- England won the World Cup when Geoff Hurst scored a hat trick in a 4-2 victory over West Germany at London’s Wembley Stadium.
\n1971- Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin landed on the moon.
\n1975- Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. (His remains have never been found.)
\n2002- Expelled from Congress a week earlier, James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption.
\n2008- Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was extradited to The Hague to face genocide charges after nearly 13 years on the run.<\/p>\n

Today’s Birthdays:
\nActress Hilary Swank turns 41 years old today.
\nBud Selig Baseball commissioner 81
\nBuddy Guy Blues guitarist 79
\nPeter Bogdanovich Director 76
\nEleanor Smeal Feminist activist 76
\nPaul Anka Singer 74
\nDavid Sanborn Jazz saxophonist 70
\nArnold Schwarzenegger Governor of California, actor 68
\nJean Reno Actor 67
\nDelta Burke Actress (“Designing Women”) 59
\nKate Bush Rock singer 57
\nRichard Linklater Director 55
\nLaurence Fishburne Actor 54
\nChris Mullin Basketball Hall of Famer 52
\nVivica A. Fox Actress 51
\nSimon Baker Actor 46
\nChristopher Nolan Director (“Batman” movies) 45
\nTom Green Actor, comedian 44
\nChristine Taylor Actress 44
\nDean Edwards Actor, comedian 42
\nJaime Pressley Actress 38
\nActress Lisa Kudrow (“Friends”) turns 52 years old today<\/p>\n

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