On the morning of July 31, 1975, James Riddle Hoffa, one of
the most influential American labor leaders of the 20th century,
was officially reported missing after he failed to return home
the previous night.

President Lyndon Johnson (left) signed the Social Security Amendments with former President Harry Truman and his
wife Bess present. 

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare,
a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law.

At the bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman
Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry
Truman was enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and
received the first Medicare card.

Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had
become the first president to propose national health
insurance, an initiative that was opposed at the time by
Congress.

On July 30, 2003, the last of 21,529,464 Volkswagen Beetles
built since World War II rolled off the production line at
Volkswagen’s plant in Puebla, Mexico.

On July 30, 1956, two years after pushing to have the phrase
“under God” inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law officially declaring “In God
We Trust” to be the nation’s official motto. The law, P.L. 84-140,
also mandated that the phrase be printed on all American
paper currency.

The phrase had been placed on U.S. coins since the Civil War
when, according to the historical association of the United
States Treasury, religious sentiment reached a peak.

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)

The U.S. Congress passed legislation establishing the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s
activities in space, on July 29, 1958. The agency opened
for business on Oct. 1, 1958.

President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics
and Space Act of 1958 into law on July 29, creating
NASA.