This Date in History: July 30

Daniel E. Rouse, a member of the 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition, in 1880 lived in Bozeman.  He was a saloon keeper and was also married.  Rouse was present at the celebration in 1883 to commemorate the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad to Bozeman and honor the members of the 1874 expedition.  Daniel E. Rouse died on July 30, 1912 in Bozeman.  Rouse is buried at the Bozeman Sunset Hills Cemetery.  (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)

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Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, German industrialist – Managing Director Krupp Steel, son of Gustav Krupp, born August 13, 1907 in Essen, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment at the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg in 1948, released in 1951, died of heart failure July 30, 1967 in Essen, said about himself: “Politics is not my business.  My business is making steel.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)