Today is Monday, July 30, the 212th day of 2012. There are 154 days left in the year.
1733 ― Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston
1792 ― 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for first time
1863 ― President Lincoln issues ``eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1928 ― George Eastman demonstrates first color movie
1930 ― Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo
1942 ― German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1943 ― Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (``Girl Crazy”)
1966 ― Beatles' ``Yesterday... & Today," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for five weeks
1974 ― House of Reps recommends three articles of impeachment of Nixon
1976 ― Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball