July 30 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 30. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 44 events. Showing 31 - 44.

• 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.