Talk:July 30
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July 30: Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)
- 1419 - Hussite Wars: Jan Žižka and others threw several town councillors out the window at the First Defenestrations of Prague.
- 1619 - The first representative assembly in the Americas, Virginia's House of Burgesses, convened for the first time.
- 1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace, a Baroque palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
- 1825 - Malden Island (pictured), now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1930 - Uruguay won the first Football World Cup in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, beating Argentina 4 to 2.
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I felt this was important enough to mention, since it was offically designated the first terrorist attack on US soil (1916), and we made the Germans pay us for it up until 1979. Black Tom Island explosion
[edit] Fictional Events
Is there any standard on adding fictional events for date? In the Harry Potter universe, Neville Longbottom was born on July 30, 1980. Should this be added? Jvsett 11:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
