A Brief History On July 30, 2025, Together was released in the United States by Neon, a nifty film in the genre we love best, horror! Digging Deeper Right off the bat Together throws a different wrinkle at the audience by starring a real life married couple, Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a not married pair of live in partners with a slightly troubled relationship. When the couple moves to an out of the way, remote small town, their troubles escalate and take a dark turn toward the secret of this particular burg. Written and directed by Michael Shanks, the…
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A Brief History On July 30, 1969, President Richard Nixon went to South Vietnam to visit the South Vietnamese President and US military commanders. You may not know that this visit to Vietnam was Nixon’s 8th visit to that country, although the first as President. Digging Deeper Nixon was not the first US President to visit Vietnam, as Lyndon Johnson had also gone there in 1967. In fact, John F. Kennedy had also visited Vietnam in 1951, before JFK was President. Some misunderstandings about the Vietnam War include the number of American draftees involved. The actual portion of draftees was…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on July 30th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On July 30, 1419, The First Defenestration of Prague took place, which of course, means there was a second Defenestration! On July 30, 1864, Union forces exploded 8,000 pounds of black powder in a tunnel underneath Confederate trenches at Petersburg, Virginia, creating a crater 170 feet long and 120 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B.…
A Brief History On July 30 and 31, 2012, Northern and Eastern India suffered massive electrical blackouts leaving 400 million people without electricity on July 30th and an even more incredible 620 million people without juice, but luckily only for about a day. Digging Deeper The previous blackout record, as measured by number of people denied use of electricity, had been 230 million people, again in India, in 2001. While the scope of the outage in these cases is immense, the length of time people are denied electric power most affects them. In the summer of 2022, part of Ohio…
A Brief History On July 30, 2003, the last of the “old style” Volkswagen Beetles rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico, ending the longest and most prolific manufacturing streak of any car platform ever made. Digging Deeper While Toyota fans will claim the Corolla as the most manufactured car model with 40 million units turned out, it must be noted that our beloved Beetle was built on the same basic platform throughout its 65 year run while the Corolla was often changed into a completely different car, merely retaining the name. A whopping 21,529,464 of these cute and…