Thursday, July 30. Day 211 of 2026
It’s Cheesecake Day, Chili Dog Day and Paperback Book Day
1619: The first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time
1729: The city of Baltimore is founded
1945: A Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. The ship had just delivered the first Atomic Bomb used in combat to the US Naval Base on Tinian Island
1956: A joint resolution of Congress is signed by President Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto
1965: President Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid
1974: President Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court. The term “18 Minute Gap” is born
1975: Former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of a restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is never seen or heard from again
2006: The world’s longest running music show “Top of the Pops” is broadcast for the last time on BBC. The show had aired for 42 years.
News: So far Alexander County has no confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis…Authorities continue to search for missing Hickory woman…Taylorsville man jailed this morning…Hiddenite man fins himself back in custody…Wilkes County man pleads guilty to attempted statutory rape…Hickory man charged with murder after 19-year-old dies…
Weather: Sunny and 86 again
Sports: Cougar Football holds first official practice on Wednesday… Panthers lose a WR to injury…Braves and Mets split a pair…Phillies is a swoon…Snakes move into Wild Card spot…
Happy Birthday: Bud Selig, Paul Anka, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ken Olin, Delta Burke, Laurence Fishburne, Lisa Kudrow, Vivica A. Fox, Hilary Swank, Justin Rose, April Bowlby, Hope Solo
Tony Romo’s arrest video released https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/tony-romo-field-sobriety-test-nfl-combine-fans-stunned
Word of the Day: salad days [sal-uhd dayz] a term used to describe the period of youthful inexperience. The expression comes from William Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”, where Cleopatra says her early infatuation with Julius Caesar was foolish: “My salad days, when I was green in judgment.” (“Green” refers both to inexperience and to the color of a salad.)
Quote of the Day: “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”… Dr. Seuss