Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is July 30. It was on this date in 1974 that the House Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 21-17, approved a third article of impeachment against President Nixon, charging him with ignoring congressional subpoenas. Nixon resigned before the full House could vote to impeach him. Advertisement Former Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa, 62, was last seen alive outside a restaurant in Bloomfield Twp., a suburb of Detroit, on this date in 1975. His body has never been found. On Dec. 8, 1982 -- seven years and 131 days after his disappearance -- a judge declared Hoffa dead as of July 30, 1982. The American Federation of Radio Artists was organized on this date in 1937. It later became AFTRA, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, under the AFL-CIO. Kate Smith was a major singer and radio personality during the 1930s and '40s and headed her own TV show in the early 1950s. Kate made her last public appearance on this date in 1976, singing the song she immortalized, "God Bless America," in a television salute to the nation's Bicentennial. Advertisement The last U.S. Marine combat troops left Lebanon on this date in 1984. Nine months earlier, 241 Marines and sailors had been killed when a TNT-laden suicide bomb blew up Marine headquarters at Beirut International Airport. And, on this date in 1932, Walt Disney released his first color cartoon. It was titled "Flowers and Trees," shot in three-color Technicolor. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
