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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_30" title="July 30">July 30</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811" title="1811">1811</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla" title="Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla">Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla</a></b>, leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_War_of_Independence" title="Mexican War of Independence">Mexican War of Independence</a>, was executed by Spanish forces in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_City" title="Chihuahua City">Chihuahua City</a>, Mexico.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a> – Off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_City,_California" title="Crescent City, California">Crescent City, California</a>, the steamer <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Jonathan_(steamer)" title="Brother Jonathan (steamer)">Brother Jonathan</a></b></i> <i>(depicted)</i> struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a> – In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo" title="Montevideo">Montevideo</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay_national_football_team" title="Uruguay national football team">Uruguay national football team</a> won the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1930 FIFA World Cup">first FIFA World Cup</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a> – At the height of a political crisis known as the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_question" title="Royal question">royal question</a></b>, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie_(Belgium)" title="Gendarmerie (Belgium)">Gendarmerie</a> at a strike in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%A2ce-Hollogne" title="Grâce-Hollogne">Grâce-Berleur</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War" title="2006 Lebanon War">Lebanon War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">Israeli Air Force</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Qana_airstrike" title="2006 Qana airstrike">attacked a three-story building</a></b> near the Lebanese village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana" title="Qana">Qana</a>, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Baradaeus" title="Jacob Baradaeus">Jacob Baradaeus</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 578); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler" title="Smedley Butler">Smedley Butler</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1881); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schuck" title="Walter Schuck">Walter Schuck</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1920); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Binchy" title="Maeve Binchy">Maeve Binchy</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2012)</p>