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VW beetle
Catherine Palace
NASA orbital photo of Malden Island
View of the Lehigh Valley pier after explosion
Emperor Taishō
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Brother Jonathan
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980) | unreferenced section |
| International Day of Friendship | Multiple issues |
| 762 – Al-Mansur, the caliph of Islam, founded the city of Baghdad as the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids. | inappropriate tone |
| 1419 – Hussite Wars: Jan Žižka and others threw several town councillors out of the window at the First Defenestrations of Prague. | featured on May 23, date of second defenestration |
| 1619 – The first representative assembly in the Americas, Virginia's House of Burgesses, convened for the first time. | expansion |
| 1656 – Led by King Charles X Gustav, the armies of Sweden and Brandenburg defeated the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth near Warsaw. | single source section |
| 1676 – Rebelling colonists led by Nathaniel Bacon issued the Declaration of the People against the rule of Governor William Berkeley in Virginia. | lead too short |
| 1756 – Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace, a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia. | refimprove section |
| 1825 – Malden Island, now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered by Captain The 7th Lord Byron. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces failed to break Confederate lines by exploding a large mine under their trenches at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji died and was succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. | Meiji: unreferenced section; Taisho: refimprove section |
| 1945 – World War II: USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58, killing over 800 seamen. | unreferenced section |
| 1965 – U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid to provide federal health insurance for the elderly and for low income families, respectively. | Medicare: expansion; Medicaid: outdated |
| 1978 – In accordance with the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, switched back from driving on the right-hand side of the road to the left. | refimprove |
| 2003 – The last old-style Beetle, the economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico. | refimprove section |
| Kate Bush |b|1958 | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1916 – World War I: German agents sabotaged U.S.-made munitions in New York Harbor that were to be supplied to the Allies.
- 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.
- 2014 – At least 151 people were killed when heavy rains triggered a landslide in the village of Malin in Maharashtra, India.
- Born/died this day: | Jacob Baradaeus |d|578| Giorgio Vasari |b|1511| Emily Brontë |b|1818| Lê Văn Duyệt |d|1832|George Pickett |d|1875| Smedley Butler |b|1881| Casey Stengel |b|1890| Joyce Kilmer |d|1918| Harold Davidson |d|1937| | Katherine Reutter |b|1988| Ian Gow |d|1990|Claudette Colbert |d|1996
July 30: Islamic New Year (2022, 1444 AH)
José Nasazzi, Uruguay captain
- 1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, the steamer Brother Jonathan struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.
- 1930 – Uruguay (captain pictured) defeated Argentina 4–2 at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the inaugural FIFA World Cup.
- 1950 – At the height of a political crisis known as the royal question, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian Gendarmerie at a strike in Grâce-Berleur.
- 1975 – American labor-union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
- 1981 – Amid a widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland, up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took part in the largest of nationwide hunger demonstrations in Łódź.
- Tatwine (d. 734)
- Walter Schuck (b. 1920)
- Hope Solo (b. 1981)