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Thursday, 30 July 2026

2006

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.

Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

2003

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

1980

Vanuatu gains independence.

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law

1978

The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

1975

Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.

The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).

1974

Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.

Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.

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