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"The Godfather" and "Gone With the Wind."
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• Today is Monday, July 30, the 212th day of 2012. There are 154 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 30, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" -- WAVES for short.
• On this date:
• In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.
• In 1729, Baltimore, Md. was founded.
• In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-filled mine under Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.
• In 1912, Emperor Meiji (may-jee) of Japan died after a reign of 45 years.
• In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is perhaps best remembered for his poem "Trees.")
• In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
• In 1945, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War II; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survived.
• 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 1962, the Trans-Canada Highway was officially opened at Rogers Pass in British Columbia.
• In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect 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.
• Ten years ago: President George W. Bush signed into law the most far-reaching government crackdown on business fraud since the Depression. Expelled from Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption; the Ohio Democrat made it clear he intended to

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