GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS TUESDAY, July 30, the 211th day of 2013 with 154 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:34 and sunset is @ 8:07. The waning first quarter moon is @ 1:45 PM EDT. The morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Saturn and Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1619 - A representative colonial assembly - the first in America - was held at Jamestown, Virginia, under the new governor of the colony, Sir George Yeardley. 1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded. 1928 - The MGM lion roared for the first time. 1935 - The first Penguin paperback book was published. 1938 - George Eastman demonstrated his color motion picture process. 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. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters. 1952 - "The Guiding Light," a popular radio show, premiered on television. 1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law; it took effect the following year. 1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted a third article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: contempt of Congress in hindering the impeachment process. The previous two impeachment articles voted against Nixon by the committee were obstruction of justice and abuse of presidential powers. 1975 - Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. 1991 - The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was signed.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:33:36 +0000
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