Daily Calendar for July 30th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1510s

• Born 1511: Giorgio Vasari (artist)

1610s

• 1610: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was first to observe what we now know are Saturn's rings

• 1619: First legislative assembly in America, the House of Burgesses, convened at Jamestown, VA

1730s

• 1739: Caspar Wistar began operation of the first successful glass factory in America, in Allowaystown, New Jersey

1810s

• Born 1818: Emily Brontë (novelist)

1820s

• 1825: Malden Island was discovered

1830s

• 1836: Hawaii's first English-language newspaper published

1840s

• 1844: New York Yacht Club founded

1860s

• Born 1863: Henry Ford (industrialist)

1880s

• Born 1880: Robert Rutherford McCormick (newspaper editor)

1890s

• Born 1890: Casey Stengel (baseball player)

• Born 1898: Henry Moore (sculptor)

1930s

• 1932: The Olympic Games of Los Angeles, celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era, opened

1940s

• Born 1941: Paul Anka (singer)

• 1945: Japanese warships sank the USS Indianapolis, killing over 800 seamen (WW II)

• Born 1947: Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor & politician)

1950s

• 1954: Elvis Presley made his debut performance at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, TN

• 1955: Mister Roberts premiered

• Born 1956: Delta Burke (actress)

• Born 1958: Kate Bush (singer)

1960s

• Born 1961: Laurence Fishburne (actor)

• Born 1962: Alton Brown (television host)

• Born 1963: Lisa Kudrow (actress)

• Born 1964: Vivica A. Fox (actress)

• 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation establishing the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs

1970s

• 1971: Apollo 15 landed on the Moon50 Years Ago

• Born 1971: Tom Green (actor & comedian)

• Born 1971: Christine Taylor (actress)

• Born 1974: Hilary Swank (actress)

1980s

• Died 1983: Lynn Fontanne (actress)

• Died 1989: Lane Frost (bull rider)

1990s

• Died 1998: Buffalo Bob Smith (actor and puppeteer, best known for Howdy Doody)

2000s

• Died 2003: Sam Phillips (rock'n'roll pioneer, Sun Records founder, and the man who "discovered" Elvis and also launched the careers of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and B.B. King)

• 2005: Jake, a 65-pound golden retriever, was the only non-human in the 10th annual 1.25-mile swim from Alcatraz island to the San Francisco shore. The 4-year-old dog swam across the water in just under 42 minutes, finishing 72nd out of the more than 500 swimmers. Organizers say it was the first known crossing by a dog

• Died 2007: Ingmar Bergman (filmmaker)

• Died 2007: Michelangelo Antonioni (director)

• 2008: In Bethel, Maine, the largest snowwoman (122 feet, 1 inch tall) melted completely