1965 "No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine."President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare and Medicate into law. The government programs provide health insurance for America's elderly and poor.

1916 An estimated 2,000 tons of munitions  explode on Black Tom Island, near Jersey City, New Jersey. Suspicion focuses on German sabotage as the cause of the blast which kills 7 people 9 months before the United States enters WWI.1945Near the end of WWII, in the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer torpedoes the USS Indianapolis. Only 316 out of the 1,196 men on board the battle cruiser survive the sinking and shark-infested waters.

It happens just after the ship delivers components for the first atomic bomb that the US drops on Hiroshima, Japan a week later.

1863 Auto pioneer Henry Ford is born near Dearborn, Michigan. Ford's Model T car and assembly line methods revolutionized America's roads and its industry.

And 1947"I'll be back."Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bodybuilder-turned movie star who became Governor of California is born in Austria.Today in History, July 30th. Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.