Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 30
July 30: Tu B'Av (Judaism, 2007); Independence Day in Vanuatu.
- 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.
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