30 July 1579

In Pakistan, IS–KP kill over 60 people in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Khar.

Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was elected to his first full term as president, having served as leader since the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état.

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.

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.

American labor-union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.

In London, the England national football team won the FIFA World Cup, winning the final against West Germany 4–2 after extra time.

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.

In Montevideo, the Uruguay national football team (team pictured) won the inaugural FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina 4–2 in the final.

World War I: German agents sabotaged U.S.-made munitions in New York Harbor that were to be supplied to the Allies.

The boiler of the Staten Island Ferry Westfield II exploded at South Ferry in New York City, killing at least 45 people.

Off the coast of Crescent City, California, the steamer Brother Jonathan struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (depicted), a leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish forces in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

Bach's chorale cantata Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, a paraphrase of Psalm 124 based on a 1524 hymn by Justus Jonas, was first performed in Leipzig.

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.

The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.

Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, take to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

Vanuatu gains independence.