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Events on the 30th of July in history

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30 Jul 0579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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30 Jul 0657 St. Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
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30 Jul 0657 St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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30 Jul 0762 Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
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30 Jul 1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
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30 Jul 1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed Reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows
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30 Jul 1419 First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
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30 Jul 1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
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30 Jul 1537 Resistant of Bomy: French / Dutch cease fire
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30 Jul 1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
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30 Jul 1608 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.
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30 Jul 1619 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
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30 Jul 1619 House of Burgesses Virginia formed, 1st elective US governing body
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30 Jul 1626 Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die
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30 Jul 1629 An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
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30 Jul 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.
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30 Jul 1646 English parliament sets King Charles I Newcastle Propositions
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30 Jul 1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
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30 Jul 1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
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30 Jul 1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
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30 Jul 1656 Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
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30 Jul 1676 Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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30 Jul 1678 English troops lands in Flanders
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30 Jul 1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida
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30 Jul 1729 Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.
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30 Jul 1729 City of Baltimore founded
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30 Jul 1733 The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
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30 Jul 1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
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30 Jul 1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey
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30 Jul 1756 In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
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30 Jul 1775 Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England
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30 Jul 1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
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30 Jul 1809 English invasion army lands in Walcheren
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30 Jul 1811 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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30 Jul 1822 James Varick becomes 1st Bishop of African Meth Episcopal Zion Church
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30 Jul 1825 Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.
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30 Jul 1826 Java Prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
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30 Jul 1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
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30 Jul 1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
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30 Jul 1844 1st US yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club
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30 Jul 1859 First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
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30 Jul 1863 President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
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30 Jul 1863 American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
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30 Jul 1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner
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30 Jul 1864 Battle of Chambersburg, PA - burned by Union forces under McCausland
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30 Jul 1864 Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
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30 Jul 1864 Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire
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30 Jul 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.
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30 Jul 1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of the Crater
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30 Jul 1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
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30 Jul 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.
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30 Jul 1866 Race riot in New Orleans
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30 Jul 1866 New Orleans, Louisiana's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
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30 Jul 1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
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30 Jul 1871 The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
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30 Jul 1874 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles
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30 Jul 1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
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30 Jul 1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
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30 Jul 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
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30 Jul 1898 Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
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30 Jul 1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
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30 Jul 1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #570 Kythera
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30 Jul 1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
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30 Jul 1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
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30 Jul 1909 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
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30 Jul 1909 US Army accepts delivery of 1st military airplane
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30 Jul 1911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #716 Berkeley
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30 Jul 1912 Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
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30 Jul 1913 Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War
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30 Jul 1914 Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization
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30 Jul 1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
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30 Jul 1914 John French appointed British Supreme Commander
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30 Jul 1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey
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30 Jul 1916 Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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30 Jul 1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #951 Gaspra
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30 Jul 1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
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30 Jul 1922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #983 Gunila
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30 Jul 1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
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30 Jul 1926 Albanian boundaries deduced
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30 Jul 1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
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30 Jul 1928 George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie
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30 Jul 1930 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
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30 Jul 1930 In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
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30 Jul 1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
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30 Jul 1932 Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
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30 Jul 1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
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30 Jul 1932 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2253 Espinette
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30 Jul 1933 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
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30 Jul 1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
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30 Jul 1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
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30 Jul 1938 Gen Metaxas names himself Premier of Greece
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30 Jul 1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1467 Mashona
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30 Jul 1941 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in the Netherlands
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30 Jul 1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in the Netherlands
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30 Jul 1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
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30 Jul 1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
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30 Jul 1943 US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
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30 Jul 1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
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30 Jul 1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy
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30 Jul 1945 Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed / sinks, 880 die
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30 Jul 1945 World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
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30 Jul 1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
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30 Jul 1947 Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to New York Giants 5-4
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30 Jul 1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
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30 Jul 1948 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
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30 Jul 1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
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30 Jul 1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
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30 Jul 1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2718
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30 Jul 1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
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30 Jul 1954 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
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30 Jul 1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
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30 Jul 1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
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30 Jul 1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
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30 Jul 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.
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30 Jul 1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
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30 Jul 1959 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
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30 Jul 1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
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30 Jul 1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields, Illinois
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30 Jul 1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
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30 Jul 1962 All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
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30 Jul 1962 The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
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30 Jul 1962 AL beats NL 9-4 in 33rd All Star Game (Wrigley Field Chicago)
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30 Jul 1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
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30 Jul 1964 US naval fire on Hon Ngu / Hon Mo, North Vietnam
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30 Jul 1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
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30 Jul 1965 Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
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30 Jul 1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
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30 Jul 1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year
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30 Jul 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
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30 Jul 1966 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
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30 Jul 1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
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30 Jul 1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
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30 Jul 1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
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30 Jul 1968 Washingston Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
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30 Jul 1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
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30 Jul 1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs. Mets
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30 Jul 1969 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 Jul 1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
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30 Jul 1969 Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
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30 Jul 1969 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
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30 Jul 1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut
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30 Jul 1970 Smirnova discover asteroid 1835 Gajdariya, 2032 Ethel & 2349 Kurchenko
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30 Jul 1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
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30 Jul 1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
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30 Jul 1971 US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
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30 Jul 1971 Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
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30 Jul 1971 An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
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30 Jul 1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
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30 Jul 1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
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30 Jul 1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
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30 Jul 1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
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30 Jul 1973 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
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30 Jul 1973 Texas Ranger Jim Bibby no-hits Oakland A's, 6-0
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30 Jul 1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
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30 Jul 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.
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30 Jul 1974 Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
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30 Jul 1974 House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon
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30 Jul 1975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
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30 Jul 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, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
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30 Jul 1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as Premier of Italy
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30 Jul 1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
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30 Jul 1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 HRs
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30 Jul 1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
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30 Jul 1978 The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
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30 Jul 1980 Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
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30 Jul 1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France
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30 Jul 1980 Vanuatu gains independence.
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30 Jul 1980 Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
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30 Jul 1980 British New Hebrides becomes independent & takes name Vanuatu
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30 Jul 1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
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30 Jul 1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
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30 Jul 1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 km/h, California
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30 Jul 1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of the USSR jerks a record 261 kg
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30 Jul 1984 Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
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30 Jul 1984 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
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30 Jul 1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
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30 Jul 1984 Soap opera "Santa Barbara," premieres on NBC
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30 Jul 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
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30 Jul 1988 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
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30 Jul 1988 James Ogilvy (under Engl Princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
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30 Jul 1988 John Franco saves record 13th game of July
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30 Jul 1988 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
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30 Jul 1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
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30 Jul 1988 Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
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30 Jul 1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada
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30 Jul 1989 Chile amends its constitution
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30 Jul 1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
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30 Jul 1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees
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30 Jul 1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 vs. India to follow up 1st innings 333
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30 Jul 1990 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
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30 Jul 1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to "get dirt" on Dave Winfield.
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30 Jul 1990 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
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30 Jul 1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign
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30 Jul 1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
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30 Jul 1991 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
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30 Jul 1992 Lin Li swims female world record / OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
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30 Jul 1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
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30 Jul 1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
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30 Jul 2003 In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
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30 Jul 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.
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