Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 30
This is a list of selected July 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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 |
| 1756 – Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace, a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia. | {{refimprove}} |
| 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1965 – US 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 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 762 – Al-Mansur, the Caliph of Islam, founded the city of Baghdad to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids.
- 1656 – Led by King Charles X Gustav, the armies of Sweden and Brandenburg defeated the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth near Warsaw.
- 1676 – Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon and his makeshift army issued a Declaration of the People of Virginia, instigating a rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- 1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, US, the steamship Brother Jonathan, carrying a large shipment of gold coins that was not retrieved until 1996, struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people.
- 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji died and was succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
- 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.
- 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.
- 1975 – American labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
- 2003 – The last old-style Beetle, the economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.
- 2012 – The largest power outage in history occurred across 22 Indian states, affecting over 620 million people, or about 9% of the world's population.
July 30: Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)
- 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, an early leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish authorities.
- 1825 – Malden Island (pictured), now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered by Captain The 7th Lord Byron.
- 1916 – German agents caused a major explosion when they sabotaged American ammunition supplies in New Jersey to prevent the materiel from being used by the Allies of World War I.
- 1950 – Four striking workers were shot dead by the Gendarmerie in Belgium at the height of the political crisis known as the Royal Question.
- 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the South Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.