Trivia Facts For this day in History: July 30, 2010
Birthdays:| 1818 | Emily Bronte, English novelist | | 1863 | Henry Ford, American car manufacturer | | 1863 | Henry Ford, American car manufacturer | | 1898 | Henry Moore, English sculptor | | 1940 | Sir Clive Sinclair, Inventor | | 1947 | Arnold Schwarzenegger, American film star | | 1958 | Kate Bush, English singer | | 1958 | Dayley Thompson, British Olympic athelete |
Events:| 1718 | William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, died | | 1935 | The first ever 'Penguin' paperback books went on sale | | 1948 | The worlds first radar station, for shipping, opened in Liverpool | | 1963 | Kim Philby, who was a secret soviet agent, fled the country | | 1966 | England won the World Cup, beating West Germany 4-2 | | 1971 | Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) landed on the Moon | | 1981 | Britain's civil servants ended their 21 week strike | | 1984 | The first flight of the space shuttle 'Discovery' took place |
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