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.

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  VW beetle
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  Catherine Palace
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  NASA orbital photo of Malden Island
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  View of the Lehigh Valley pier after explosion
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  Emperor Taishō
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  Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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  Brother Jonathan

Ineligible

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.
• 1945 – The Japanese submarine I-58 commanded by Mochitsura Hashimoto sank the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, killing around 300 crew in the last Japanese naval success of World War II.
• 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

Brother Jonathan

• 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish forces in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
• 1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, the steamer Brother Jonathan (depicted) struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.
• 1930 – In Montevideo, the Uruguay national football team won the first 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.
• 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.

• Jacob Baradaeus (d. 578)
• Smedley Butler (b. 1881)
• Walter Schuck (b. 1920)
• Maeve Binchy (d. 2012)

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