July 30 Events |
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| July 30th, 2007 (July 30 2007) | Event | John Brumby becomes Premier of Victoria following the resignation of Steve Bracks. | |
| July 30th, 2006 (July 30 2006) | Event | World s longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. | |
| July 30th, 2006 (July 30 2006) | Event | At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre. | |
| July 30th, 2003 (July 30 2003) | Event | In Mexico, the last old style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. | |
| July 30th, 2002 (July 30 2002) | Event | The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush. | George W. Bush Quotes |
| July 30th, 1997 (July 30 1997) | Event | Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia. | |
| July 30th, 1990 (July 30 1990) | Event | The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line. | |
| July 30th, 1980 (July 30 1980) | Event | Vanuatu gains independence. | |
| July 30th, 1975 (July 30 1975) | Event | 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. | |
| July 30th, 1974 (July 30 1974) | Event | Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court. | |
| July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 15 MissionDavid Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon. | |
| July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Event | An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162. | |
| July 30th, 1969 (July 30 1969) | Event | Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders. | |
| July 30th, 1966 (July 30 1966) | Event | England national football team win 1966 FIFA World Cup beating West Germany 4-2 in the Final | |
| July 30th, 1965 (July 30 1965) | Event | US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| July 30th, 1956 (July 30 1956) | Event | 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. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| July 30th, 1954 (July 30 1954) | Event | Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer. | Elvis Presley Quotes |
| July 30th, 1953 (July 30 1953) | Event | Rikidozan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance. | |
| July 30th, 1945 (July 30 1945) | Event | World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. | |
| July 30th, 1932 (July 30 1932) | Event | Olympic Games: The Games of the X Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California. | |
| July 30th, 1932 (July 30 1932) | Event | Walt Disney s Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres. | Walt Disney Quotes |
| July 30th, 1930 (July 30 1930) | Event | In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup. | |
| July 30th, 1871 (July 30 1871) | Event | The Staten Island Ferry Westfield s boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. | |
| July 30th, 1866 (July 30 1866) | Event | New Orleans s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. | |
| July 30th, 1864 (July 30 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of the CraterUnion forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. | |
| July 30th, 1863 (July 30 1863) | Event | Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah. | Osho Quotes |
| July 30th, 1825 (July 30 1825) | Event | Malden Island discovered. | |
| July 30th, 1811 (July 30 1811) | Event | Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico. | |
| July 30th, 1756 (July 30 1756) | Event | Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. | |
| July 30th, 1733 (July 30 1733) | Event | First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States. | |
| July 30th, 1729 (July 30 1729) | Event | Baltimore, Maryland is founded. | |
| July 30th, 1629 (July 30 1629) | Event | An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people. | |
| July 30th, 1619 (July 30 1619) | Event | In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. | |
| July 30th, 1608 (July 30 1608) | Event | At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years. | |
| July 30th, 1502 (July 30 1502) | Event | Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| July 30th, 1419 (July 30 1419) | Event | First Defenestration of Prague. | |
