Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 30
July 30: Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)
- 1619 - The first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convened for the first time.
- 1825 - Malden Island was discovered.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces attempted to break Confederate lines in the Battle of the Crater.
- 1966 - England won the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2.
- 2003 - The last 'old style' VW Beetle rolled off the assembly line in Mexico.