July 30

Friday 30, 2004:

A gas explosion kills 16 people in Belgium.

Wednesday 30, 2003:

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Tuesday 30, 2002:

Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie is the first woman to dunk in a basketball game.

Wednesday 30, 1997:

A double suicide bombing kills 14 people in Jerusalem,Israel.

Monday 30, 1990:

1993- Jessica Duncan is born(Canadian not yet famous rock star)

Wednesday 30, 1980:

Vanuatu gains independence.

Wednesday 30, 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..

Tuesday 30, 1974:

Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.

Friday 30, 1971:

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162

Thursday 30, 1970:

Powder Ridge Rock Festival

Wednesday 30, 1969:

Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders.

Saturday 30, 1966:

At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2.

Friday 30, 1965:

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

Monday 30, 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.

Thursday 30, 1953:

Rikid?zan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.

Monday 30, 1945:

World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst single loss in the history of the United States Navy.

Saturday 30, 1932:

The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.

Wednesday 30, 1930:

In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup.

Saturday 30, 1864:

Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

Thursday 30, 1863:

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.

Saturday 30, 1825:

Malden Island discovered.

Thursday 30, 1733:

First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.

Saturday 30, 1729:

Baltimore, Maryland is founded.

Monday 30, 1629:

An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.

Tuesday 30, 1619:

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

Wednesday 30, 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.

Friday 30, 1419:

First Defenestration of Prague.

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