Today is Thursday, July 30, the 211th day of 2009. There are 154 days left in the year.
1733 _ Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston
1863 _ President Lincoln issues ``eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1913 _ Conclusion of the second Balkan War
1928 _ George Eastman demonstrates first color movie
1956 _ U.S. motto ``In God We Trust" authorized
1966 _ Beatles' ``Yesterday & Today," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for five weeks
1971 _ Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1975 _ Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
1976 _ Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1980 _ British New Hebrides becomes independent and takes name Vanuatu