Today is Sunday, July 30, the 211th day of 2017. There are 154 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Actor Edd ‘‘Kookie’’ Byrnes is 84. Former Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is 83. Blues musician Buddy Guy is 81. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 78. Feminist activist Eleanor Smeal is 78. Singer Paul Anka is 76. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 72. Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is 70. Blues singer-musician Otis Taylor is 69. Actor Ken Olin is 63. Actress Delta Burke is 61. Law professor Anita Hill is 61. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 59. Movie director Richard Linklater is 57. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 56. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 54. Actor Simon Baker is 48. Actor Donnie Keshawarz is 48. Movie director Christopher Nolan is 47. Actor Tom Green is 46. Rock musician Brad Hargreaves (Third Eye Blind) is 46. Actress Christine Taylor is 46. Actress Hilary Swank is 43. Soccer player Hope Solo is 36. Actor Nico Tortorella is 29. Actress Joey King is 18.

In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.

In 1792, the French national anthem ‘‘La Marseillaise,’’ by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris by troops arriving from Marseille.

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.

In 1916, German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, N.J., killing about a dozen people.

In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th US Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. Kilmer is best-known for his poem ‘‘Trees.’’

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making ‘‘In God We Trust’’ the national motto, replacing ‘‘E Pluribus Unum’’ (Out of many, one).

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year.

In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.

In 1980, Israel’s Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.

Last year, Luke Aikins, a skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps, became the first person to make a planned leap without a parachute or wingsuit, landing in a net in Simi Valley, Calif.