July
30
Independence
Day
Vanuatu : July 30 1980
July
30 : International
Day of Friendship
International Friendship Day is a day for
celebrating friendship. The day has been celebrated
in several southern South American countries
for many years, particularly in Paraguay,
where the first World Friendship Day was proposed
in 1958.
Events
July
30
762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd
of radical Hussites kill seven members of
the Prague city council.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja
in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras
during his fourth voyage.
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.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative
assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses,
convenes for the first time.
1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills
about 10,000 people.
1656 – Swedish forces under the command of
King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the
Battle of Warsaw.
1729 – Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the
future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli
presents the newly-built Catherine Palace
to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader
of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by
the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain
George Anson Byron.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of
the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the
Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder,
agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant
trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
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.
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.
1866 – New Orleans's Democratic government
orders police to raid an integrated Republican
Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring
150.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's
boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey
City, New Jersey.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first
Football World Cup.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and
Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor
and the first Academy Award winning cartoon
short.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58
sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
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.
1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest
national highway in the world, is officially
opened.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
the Social Security Act of 1965 into law,
establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1967 – Israel passes the Jerusalem Law and
annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M.
Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South
Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn
Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
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.
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and
a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka,
Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard
M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings
after being ordered to do so by the United
States Supreme Court.
1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are
killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental
grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
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.
1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular
cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during
a botched paramilitary attack in Northern
Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes
its traffic on the right-hand side of the
road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem
Law
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.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen
Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
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.
2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians,
including 16 children are killed by the Israeli
Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second
Qana massacre and what Israel considers to
be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired,
from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Abdon and Sennen
Peter Chrysologus
Ursus of Auxerre
July 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feast of the Throne (Morocco)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Vanuatu from the United Kingdom and France
in 1980.
For details, contact Datacentre
|
