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On This Day (July 30): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
July 30, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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🌟 Editor's Note

Good morning. It's Wednesday, July 30, and we're discovering the New Orleans Massacre, Medicare becomes law, the first Penguin Books, the nation's official motto, the Blair Witch Project, and much more.

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🗓️ Time Machine

-30 BC

Mark Antony defeats Octavian in the Battle of Alexandria, but most of his army deserts, leading to Octavian's invasion of Egypt.

-1178

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned King of Burgundy.

-1419

First Defenestration in Prague: Anti-Catholic Hussites storm the New Town Hall and throw the judge, mayor, and several council members out the windows.

-1619

The House of Burgesses in Virginia formed the first elected American government.

-1863

During the Indian Wars, Shoshone Chief Pocatello signed the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing emigrant trails.

-1866

The New Orleans Massacre was during the Reconstruction era, when a white mob killed dozens of African Americans assembled to support a political meeting.

-1869

The world's first oil tanker, "The Charles," left the United States for Europe carrying 7,000 barrels of oil.

-1935

The first 30 Penguin Books were published, kicking off the paperback revolution.

-1937

During the Great Purge, the Soviet Politburo issued NKVD Order No. 00447 to repress landowners and anti-Soviets; 269,100 were arrested, and 76,000 were executed.

-1948

Professional wrestling started showing on prime-time TV in the United States.

-1956

"In God We Trust" becomes the nation's official motto two years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower inserts "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance.

-1965

Medicare, the health insurance program for senior citizens, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

-1999

The Blair Witch Project was released in U.S. theaters — a low-budget, independent horror film that became a huge cult hit.

-2003

The last of 21,529,464 Volkswagen Beetles built since World War II rolls off the production line in Puebla, Mexico

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💬 Final Words

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Good. A woman who can fart is not dead. *

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