Union Soldiers of Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, are in the lines during the Siege of Petersburg, Va., during the American Civil War on July 30, 1864. Famed U.S. Civil War photographer, Mathew B. Brady, can be seen standing on a fuse box in the center of the photograph, wearing a straw hat. Captain James H. Cooper stands second from left leaning on a sword. The photograph was taken by an assistant to Brady.
An aerial view of the Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles July 30, 1932 at the opening of the Olympic Games where more than 105,000 persons heard Vice President Charles Curtis officially open the games. Representatives of approximately 50 nations paraded. (AP Photo)
Bud Westmore, left, studio make-up chief, fastens the "Mr. Hyde" mask on actor Boris Karloff, while make-up artist Jack Kevan checks on the nose of the sponge rubber headpiece, July 30, 1953. Karloff will star in "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." (AP Photo)
Theater-goers wait on line to buy tickets for the Broadway musical "My Fair Lady" at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City, July 30, 1956. (AP Photo)
England's soccer captain Bobby Moore, carried shoulder high by his team mates, holds aloft the FIFA World Cup, July 30, 1966. England defeated Germany 4-2 in the final, played at London's Wembley Stadium. From left to right, goalkeeper Gordon Banks (partially obscured), Alan Ball, Martin Peters, Geoff Hurst, Moore, Ray Wilson, George Cohen and Bobby Charlton. (AP Photo)
Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin salutes while standing beside the fourth American flag planted on the surface of the moon, July 30, 1971. The lunar module that took them to the moon's surface is seen at right. Hadley Delta is in the background. (AP Photo)
On tour in the Philippines with her FTA show, Jane Fonda exchanges smiles with students at a Manila school on July 30, 1972. Miss Fonda, Donald Sutherland, rear center, and other entertainers put the nonracist, nonsexist and anti-military show together for GIs and traveled to bases to give it, first in this country and then overseas. A movie was made of the five-week tour of the Pacific. (AP PhotoSteve Jaffe)
Coast Guard Lt. Roger Holmes stands outside a radar shack as he discusses navigational problems that can arise when the big oil tankers start sailing into Valdez Harbor, July 30, 1977, Potato Point, Alaska. The first tanker will sail into Valdez harbor Saturday morning. (AP Photo)
Australian stuntman Grant Page maneuvers enflamed in napalm in Hollywood, July 30, 1979, as he promotes his techniques in the promotion of an upcoming motion picture, “City on Fire.” Page was stunt coordinator in the picture and also performed a number of “burning man” stunts similar to this. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
Soviet weightlifter Sultan Rakhmanov lifts a combined weight of 440 kilograms (968 pounds) to win gold medal in Olympic Super Heavyweight Division in the Weightlifting event at the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday, July 30, 1980. (AP Photo)
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., left, talks with Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., during a break in Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, July 30, 1986 in Washington. Biden opposes Rehnquist's nomination to be the nation's 16th chief justice and Laxalt supports the nomination. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart)
Rev. Al Sharpton, left, and Tawana Brawley walk to hold a news conference outside at Federal Court in Manhattan, July 30, 1990. The three attended the Central Park jogger trial where the defense continues to call witnesses for teenage defendant Yusef Salaam. (AP Photo/Joseph Major)
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti sings to a mass audience during a free concert in London's Hyde Park, Great Britain, July 30, 1991. The concert to celebrate Pavarotti's 30th anniversay as a top classical performer, was expected to draw 250,000 fans but was plagued by torrential rain. (AP Photo/Paul Valesco)
Oil well firemen from a U.S. company discuss the day's work while a wellhead burns out of control across a lake of crude oil in the Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait, July 30, 1991. Over 700 wellheads were torched by retreating Iraqi troops, who occupied Kuwait for over six months after the Aug. 2, 1990 invasion. (AP Photo)
Thousands of Rwandan refugees crowd a truck pumping purified water into a storage tank at the Kibungo refugee camp near Goma, Zaire on July 30, 1994. With more Western aid arriving hourly, the United Nations reported some rare good news from Goma’s squalid, teeming refugee camps: a falling death rate. Although cholera cases are increasing, improved water supplies and medical care have dramatically lowered the fatality rate for Rwandan refugees, officials said. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck)
**FILE** Photographers surround Richard Jewell prior to his testifying before a House Judiciary Crime subcommittee hearing on the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, July 30, 1997. Jewell, a former security guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson, FILE)
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On July 30, 1945: The Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survived.