Today in History - History - July 30th

1965Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple" premieres

1990George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees

1971George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"

1995Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball's Hall of Fame

1914After initial reluctance, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is persuaded to decree a general mobilizations in response to Austria; 'Think of the thousands and thousands of men who will be sent to their deaths!' he claims

1969Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas

1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open

1951Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players

1942FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1965LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966

1947Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austria, body builder/actor/politician (Terminator, 38th Governor of California)

1818Emily Jane Bronte, Thornton England, novelist (Wuthering Heights), (d. 1848)

2004Actor Nicolas Cage (40) weds Alice Kim (20) at a private ranch in Northern California

2011Granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and British equestrian Zara Phillips (30) weds England rugby player Mike Tindall (32) at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland

2007Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)

1898Otto Von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83

1683Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44

2007Bill Walsh, American football coach, dies of leukemia at 75

1718William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown), dies at 73

1918Joyce Kilmer, American poet, dies at 31