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==Events== * 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. *1626 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people. *1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army. *1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw. *1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. *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 City, Mexico. *1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron. *1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps. *1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder. *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, Louisiana's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. *1871 – The Staten Island Ferry ''Westfields boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. *1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. *1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey. *1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA 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: sinks the , 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. *1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time. *1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard 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, Iwate, Japan killing 162. *1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. * 1974 – Six 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. *1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture 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. *2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India. * 2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. *2014 – One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in the village of Ambe in the Pune district in India's Maharashtra state with 20 killed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「July 30」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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