Today in History: Wednesday, July 30, 2014

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 40 years old today. AP Photo/Peter Kramer Name Profession Age Bud Selig Baseball commissioner 80 Buddy Guy Blues guitarist 78 Peter Bogdanovich Director 75 Eleanor Smeal Feminist activist 75 Paul Anka Singer 73 David Sanborn Jazz saxophonist 69 Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor of California, actor 67 Jean Reno Actor 66 Delta Burke Actress ("Designing Women") 58 Kate Bush Rock singer 56 Richard Linklater Director 54 Laurence Fishburne Actor 53 Chris Mullin Basketball Hall of Famer 51 Vivica A. Fox Actress 50 Simon Baker Actor 45 Christopher Nolan Director ("Batman" movies) 44 Tom Green Actor, comedian 43 Christine Taylor Actress 43 Dean Edwards Actor, comedian 41 Jaime Pressley Actress 37 Actress Lisa Kudrow ("Friends") turns 51 years old today AP Photo/Chris Pizzello