Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 30
July 30: Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)
- 1419 - Hussite Wars: Jan Žižka and others threw several town councillors out the window at the First Defenestrations of Prague.
- 1619 - The first representative assembly in the Americas, Virginia's House of Burgesses, convened for the first time.
- 1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace, a Baroque palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
- 1825 - Malden Island (pictured), now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1930 - Uruguay won the first Football World Cup in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, beating Argentina 4 to 2.