TODAY IN HISTORY

Monday, July  30, 2012 AP Highlight in History:  On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law.   AP Photo
On this date in: 1619 The first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, Va. 1729 The city of Baltimore was founded. 1792 The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris. 1863 American automaker Henry Ford was born in Dearborn Township, Mich. 1930 Host Uruguay won soccer's first World Cup with a 4-2 victory over Argentina in the final in Montevideo. 1942 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. 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; 880 men lost their lives. 1966 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. AP Photo 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin landed on the moon. 1975 Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. (His remains have never been found.) 2002 Expelled from Congress a week earlier, James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption. 2008 Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was extradited to The Hague to face genocide charges after nearly 13 years on the run.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: Actress Hilary Swank turns 38 years old today. AP Photo/Peter Kramer Name Profession Age Bud Selig Baseball commissioner 78 Buddy Guy Blues guitarist 76 Peter Bogdanovich Director 73 Eleanor Smeal Feminist activist 73 Paul Anka Singer 71 David Sanborn Jazz saxophonist 67 Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor of California, actor 65 Jean Reno Actor 64 Delta Burke Actress ("Designing Women") 56 Kate Bush Rock singer 54 Richard Linklater Director 52 Laurence Fishburne Actor 51 Vivica A. Fox Actress 48 Simon Baker Actor 43 Christopher Nolan Director ("Batman" movies) 42 Tom Green Actor, comedian 41 Christine Taylor Actress 41 Dean Edwards Actor, comedian 39 Jaime Pressley Actress 35 Actress Lisa Kudrow ("Friends") turns 49 years old today AP Photo/Chris Pizzello