Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 30
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This is a list of selected July 30 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.July 30: Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)
- 1756 – Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace (pictured), a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces failed to break Confederate lines in the Battle of the Crater by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
- 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4 to 2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.
- 1945 – World War II: The USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58, killing over 800 seamen.
- 2003 – The last old-style Beetle, the economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.
- 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.
