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Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)	unreferenced section
762 – Al-Mansur, the Caliph of Islam, founded the city of Baghdad to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids.	inappropriate tone
1419 – Hussite Wars: Jan Žižka and others threw several town councillors out of the window at the First Defenestrations of Prague.	featured on May 23, date of second defenestration
1619 – The first representative assembly in the Americas, Virginia's House of Burgesses, convened for the first time.	expansion
1656 – Led by King Charles X Gustav, the armies of Sweden and Brandenburg defeated the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth near Warsaw.	single source section
1676 – Rebelling colonists led by Nathaniel Bacon issued the Declaration of the People against the rule of Governor William Berkeley in Virginia.	lead too short
1756 – Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace, a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia.	refimprove section
1825 – Malden Island, now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered by Captain The 7th Lord Byron.	lots of CN tags in one section
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces failed to break Confederate lines by exploding a large mine under their trenches at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia.	refimprove section
1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji died and was succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.	Meiji: unreferenced section; Taisho: refimprove section
1945 – World War II: USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58, killing over 800 seamen.	unreferenced section
1965 – U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid to provide federal health insurance for the elderly and for low income families, respectively.	Medicare: expansion; Medicaid: outdated
1978 – In accordance with the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, switched back from driving on the right-hand side of the road to the left.	refimprove
2003 – The last old-style Beetle, the economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.	refimprove section
Kate Bush |b|1958	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1950 – At the height of the political crisis known as the Royal Question, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian Gendarmerie at a strike in Grâce-Berleur.
• 1975 – American labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
• 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the Southern Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.
• Born/died this day: | Jacob Baradaeus |d|578| Tatwine |d|734| Emily Brontë |b|1818| George Pickett |d|1875| Smedley Butler |b|1881| Casey Stengel |b|1890| Joyce Kilmer |d|1918| Walter Schuck |b|1920| Harold Davidson |d|1937| Hope Solo |b|1981| Katherine Reutter |b|1980| Ian Gow |d|1990

July 30: International Day of Friendship

Brother Jonathan

• 1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, the steamer Brother Jonathan (depicted) struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.
• 1916 – World War I: German agents sabotaged U.S.-made munitions in New York Harbor that were to be supplied to the Allies.
• 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the inaugural FIFA World Cup.
• 1981 – Amid a widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland, up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took part in the largest of nationwide hunger demonstrations in Łódź.
• 2014 – At least 151 people were killed when heavy rains triggered a landslide in the village of Malin in Maharashtra, India.

• Giorgio Vasari (b. 1511)
• Lê Văn Duyệt (d. 1832)
• Claudette Colbert (d. 1996)

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• July 29
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