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What Happened on July 30th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
2014	Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
2012	A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2012	A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2011	Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
2006	The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2003	In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
1990	Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
1981	As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
1980	Vanuatu gains independence.
1980	Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
1978	The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1975	Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1974	Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1971	Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1971	An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
1969	Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
1966	England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
1965	U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1962	The Trans-Canada Highway, the then longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1956	A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
1945	World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
1932	Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1930	In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1916	The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.
1912	Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1871	The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1866	Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
1865	The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
1864	American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1863	American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
1859	First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1811	Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
1756	In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1733	The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1729	Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
1676	Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
1656	The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
1645	English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.
1635	Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1627	An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
1619	In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
1609	Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
1502	Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1419	First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
762	Baghdad is founded.

Famous People Born on July 30

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Year	Name
1952	Stephen Blackmore, English botanist and author
1818	Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (d. 1848)
1973	Kenton Cool, English mountaineer
1979	Chad Keegan, South African cricketer and coach
1511	Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574)
1973	Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (d. 2015)
1981	Juan Smith, South African rugby union footballer
1982	Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer
1958	Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer
1948	Billy Paultz, American basketball player

Famous People Deaths On July 30

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Date	Name
1286	Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar and historian (b. 1226)
1920	Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
2011	Bob Peterson, American basketball player (b. 1932)
1938	John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
1889	Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (b. 1846)
1975	James Blish, American author and critic (b. 1921)
2012	Maeve Binchy, Irish author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1939)
1998	Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (b. 1917)
1566	Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507)
2021	Shona Ferguson, Botswana-born, South African actor and executive producer (b. 1974)