Friday 30 July 2010
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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