Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 30

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 * 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 – In Montevideo, the Uruguay national football team won the first FIFA World Cup.
 * 1950 – At the height of a 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 disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
 * 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.
 * 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.
 * 2012 – A train fire killed 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
 * Born/died this day: | Jacob Baradaeus|d|578| Tatwine|d|734| Giorgio Vasari|b|1511| Emily Brontë|b|1818| Lê Văn Duyệt|d|1832| George Pickett|d|1875| Smedley Butler|b|1881| Casey Stengel|b|1890| Gerald Moore|b|1899| Joyce Kilmer|d|1918| Walter Schuck|b|1920| C. T. Vivian|b|1924| Harold Davidson|d|1937| Kate Bush|b|1958| Hope Solo|b|1981| Katherine Reutter|b|1988| Claudette Colbert|d|1996| Maeve Binchy|d|2012|

July 30


 * 1724 – Bach chorale cantata, Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178, based on Justus Jonas 1524 hymn by the same title, a paraphrase of Psalm 124, was first performed in Leipzig.
 * 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (depicted), leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish forces in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
 * 1871 – The boiler of the Staten Island Ferry Westfield II exploded at South Ferry in New York City, killing at least 45 people.
 * 1990 – British Conservative Member of Parliament Ian Gow was killed outside his home in a car bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
 * 2014 – More than 150 people died after heavy rains triggered a landslide in the village of Malin in Maharashtra, India.