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On this Day - 30 July
| 1619 | A representative colonial assembly - the first in America - was held at Jamestown, Virginia, under the new governor of the colony, Sir George Yeardley. | | 1793 | Toronto (known as York until 1834) was founded by General John Simcoe. | | 1935 | 'Penguin' paperback books, founded by Allen Lane, went on sale in Britain. | | 1948 | The world's first radar station was opened, to assist shipping at the port of Liverpool. | | 1963 | Kim Philby, British intelligence officer from 1940 and Soviet agent from 1933, fled to the USSR. | | 1966 | England won the Football World Cup in London, beating West Germany 4 - 2. | | 1980 | New Hebrides became independent as Vanuatu. | | 1990 | Ian Gow, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, a close friend and personal advisor to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, was killed by a car bomb at his home. |
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