July 30: National Cheesecake Day, Father-In-Law Day, Friendship Day: 30, Health Care Now! Medicares Birthday, International Day of Friendship, National Support Public Education Day & Paperback Book Day. 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. 1729 – Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland. 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time. 1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey. 1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. 2003 – In Mexico, the last old style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
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