July 30th in History - Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup, Vasari ... - Latin American Herald Tribune
1419 First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. 1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect, born (died 1574). 1608 At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years. 1619 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. 1656 Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw. 1676 Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. 1733 The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts. 1825 Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron. 1859 First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits. Source: laht.com
