History Events on July 30

One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India; 20 are killed.

#2014_Malin_landslide

Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taish?.

#Emperor_Meiji

Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.

#Baltimore

The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

#Staten_Island_Ferry

Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.

#Malden_Island

The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.

#Trans-Canada_Highway

American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.

#American_Indian_Wars

Vanuatu gains independence.

#Vanuatu

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.

#Steamboat

A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

#2012_India_blackouts

In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

#Saint_Petersburg

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

#Volkswagen_Beetle

Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.

#Charles_X_Gustav_of_Sweden

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.

#Montevideo

Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

#Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus

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.

#Top_of_the_Pops

First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

#Grand_Combin

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

#Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla

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.

#Eighty_Years'_War

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.

#World_War_II

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

#Knesset

Baghdad is founded.

#Baghdad

Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

#Beaver_Wars

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguy?n V?n Thi?u and U.S. military commanders.

#Vietnam_War

Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

#Walt_Disney

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.

#Watergate_scandal

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.

#Jimmy_Hoffa

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.

#American_Civil_War

The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

#730_(transport)

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

#Jamestown,_Virginia

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

#Apollo_program

The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

#Freemasonry

As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in ?ód? to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

#?ód?

A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.

Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.

England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.

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.

Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.

Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.

First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.