TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2019

1619 ― House of Burgesses Virginia formed as first elective US governing body

1839 ― Slave rebels take over slaver Amistad

1870 ― Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100

1909 ― US Army accepts delivery of first military airplane

1913 ― Conclusion of the second Balkan War

1928 ― George Eastman demonstrates first color movie

1942 ― German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

1956 ― US motto “In God We Trust” authorized

1966 ― Beatles' “Yesterday... & Today,” album goes No. 1 & stays there for five weeks

1971 ― Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

1974 ― House of Reps recommends three articles of impeachment of Nixon

1991 ― MTV announces it will split into three channels in 1993