Historical Events and Current Affairs on July 30

1419 : First Defenestration of Prague.
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 10,000 people.
1729 : Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 : First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
1756 : 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, executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1825 : Malden Island discovered.
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.
1864 : American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1866 : New Orleans's Democratic government ordered 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.
1930 : In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup.
1932 : Olympic Games: The Games of the X Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California.
1932 : Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
1945 : World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
1953 : Rikidozan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 : Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
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.
1965 : US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1966 : England national football team win 1966 FIFA World Cup beating West Germany 4-2 in the Final
1969 : Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders.
1971 : An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
1971 : Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission - David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
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.
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.
1980 : Vanuatu gains independence.
1990 : The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1997 : Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
2002 : The accounting law referred to as The Sarbanes Oxley Act was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush.
2003 : In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 : At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre.
2006 : World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2007 : John Brumby becomes Premier of Victoria following the resignation of Steve Bracks.

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